Venezia / Venice

Maps on our site:

• 1493, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, XLIIII
  
  
• 1550, Sebastian Munster, Cosmographiae ..., 158-159
  
  
• 1572, Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates..., I-43
  
  
• 1573, Simon Pinargenti, Isole che son da Venetia nella...
  
  
• 1615, Henry de Beauvau, Relation iournaliere...
  
  
• 1630, Don Rocchetta Aquilante, Peregrinatione ...
  
  
• ~1650, Matthaeus Merian, Venetia
  
  
• 1764, Joseph Roux, Receuil..., pl. 64
  
  
• 1800, J. Stockdale
  
  
• 1810, William Heather

The islands of the Venetian lagoon were settled by refugees from Altino & Aquileia after the Lombard invasion of N Italy in 568; expanded into Adriatic & Aegean from 11th cen.; under Austria, then France, 1798-1848; to Italy 1866.

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