Tag: Lombards
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Becoming a state (750–1000)
Venice appeared as a kind of, but not quite, sovereign polity in the late 700s and 800s. Venetian society, no longer governed by Constantinople, nor really independent, had to survive between the two super-powers of their time, Byzantium and the Carolingian Empire.
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The Roman and Byzantine period
Venice during the Roman and Byzantine times — from the time of Augustus to the end of Byzantine rule in north-eastern Italy in 751 — is the story of where Venice came from, and where the Venetians themselves believed they came from.