Venetians
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the Venetians · Venetian ambassador · the Venetian republic · the republic
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The Freedom of the Seas (Mare Liberum)
Italian maritime republic cited both as an early knower of the East and as a party in a cited war.
such for example as the war of the Megarians against the Athenians, and that of the Bolognese against the Venetians.
And as far as the other islands are concerned, not only the neighboring Persians and Arabs, but even Europeans, particularly the Venetians, knew them long before the Portuguese did.
that, however, is so far from being the case that not even a hundred years had elapsed since the Venetians controlled nearly the entire trade with the East Indies, carrying it via Alexandria.
Ancient Law
Citizens of the Venetian republic whose changing self-conception illustrates the shift toward territorial sovereignty.
Few things, I may add, are more curious than the gradual lapse of the Venetians from one view to the other.
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
Venetian officials whose ambassadorial title is traced to the same root as bailiff.
and, as he was appointed by the Venetians, this title (balio) was transferred to the Venetian ambassador.