venice

IOTL, the Republics of Venice and Genoa ultimately came to dominate maritime trade in the Mediterranean Sea, becoming important regional powers whose influence far outperformed their territorial extent. However, at other times in Italian history, other maritime republics existed that competed...

In 1857 Archduke Ferdinand Max of Austria, then commander of the Austrian Navy, sent Tegetthoff on an expedition in the Red Sea to do some surveying of the place together with explorer Theodor von Heuglin. A secret task given to Tegetthof was to negotiate the buying of the strategic island of...

Genoa and Venice had a huge presence in the Mediterranean--how many traders and settlers would there have been outside of Genoa and Venice itself, and how does this compare to the populations of Genoa and Venice at the time?

If all the Italian states, from Venice to Florence to the Papal state to Naples (or the Norman kingdom of Sicily), were united as one political entity some time from 1000-1500, how powerful would this united Italy be? Instead of France, the Holy Roman Empire, and Spain dominating Italy, would...

The City of Water: A Venetian TL The flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never in Venetian history was there so traumatic an event as those of 1380 in the very heart of the city, events which...