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The Republic of Venice became a Mediterranean maritime powerhouse
Merchant doges governed an independent republic for over eleven centuries
Founded in the coastal lagoons of northeastern Italy, Venice grew from a refuge into a dominant maritime trading republic governed by an elected Doge. Controlling key Mediterranean trade routes between Europe and the Byzantine Orient, Venice accumulated immense commercial wealth until its fall to Napoleon in 1797.
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