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... facts of that familiar story . The old Veneti , a people of North - Eastern Italy , said to be of the same race as the Etruscans , were the last inhabitants of the peninsula to submit to the arms of Rome , and the first to refuse ...
... facts of that familiar story . The old Veneti , a people of North - Eastern Italy , said to be of the same race as the Etruscans , were the last inhabitants of the peninsula to submit to the arms of Rome , and the first to refuse ...
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... fact , seems to have been in exactly the same plight as all great mercantile states whose immediate subjects are confined within a limited area . Three - fourths of her available fighting men were wanted for her fleets : the result of ...
... fact , seems to have been in exactly the same plight as all great mercantile states whose immediate subjects are confined within a limited area . Three - fourths of her available fighting men were wanted for her fleets : the result of ...
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... fact , was partitioned between the victorious allies ; and though the French in time lost their hold upon the metropolis which again returned to the rule of an imperial dynasty , the Venetians never wholly lost the footing which they ...
... fact , was partitioned between the victorious allies ; and though the French in time lost their hold upon the metropolis which again returned to the rule of an imperial dynasty , the Venetians never wholly lost the footing which they ...
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... fact that a considerable revenue was so raised in a tolerably unobjectionable manner , were the justifi- 1 The small lire , probably , of which two made a ducat . cations of this practice , which would doubtless be regarded Venice . 13.
... fact that a considerable revenue was so raised in a tolerably unobjectionable manner , were the justifi- 1 The small lire , probably , of which two made a ducat . cations of this practice , which would doubtless be regarded Venice . 13.
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... fact , understated our case , for in the year 1450 the ducat equalled not three but six smaller lire . The gold ducat between fourteen and fifteen shillings . which the Doge lived before his accession to power , Venice . 15.
... fact , understated our case , for in the year 1450 the ducat equalled not three but six smaller lire . The gold ducat between fourteen and fifteen shillings . which the Doge lived before his accession to power , Venice . 15.
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