Venezia
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- Names
Venezia
Venecia
Venice
Venise
Venetian
République de Venise
Venetia
Vinegia
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- The islands of the Venetian lagoon were settled by refugees from Altino and Aquileia after the Lombard invasion of northern Italy in 568. The settlement expanded into the Adriatic and Aegean from the 11th century. It was ruled by Austria, then France, 1798-1848. It went to Italy in 1866 The entire city including the lagoon was named an UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Annuario Generale (1980); BHA, Authority file (1973-); Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Getty Vocabulary Program rules; NGA/NIMA database (2003-); OED2 on CD-ROM (1994); Rand McNally Atlas (1994); Times Atlas of World History (1993); Times Atlas of the World (1992); UNESCO World Heritage Centre [online] (1992-); Van Marle, Pittura Italiana (1932); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Born
Antonio Beato (British, born Italy, active Egypt, ca. 1825-ca. 1903)
- Active
- Died
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