A History of VeniceKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1982 - 736 sider As comprehensive as it is engaging, John Julius Norwich's A History of Venice is a complete history of "the most beautiful and magical of cities." This necessary volume traces the rise of Venice from its fifth-century origins through 1797 when Napoleon put an end to the thousand-year-old Republic. |
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... took young Marco with them . - Of the route they followed - through Persia , Oxiana , the Pamirs , Kash- gar and the Gobi desert Marco was later to give the first description ever to reach the West , and indeed virtually the last until ...
... took young Marco with them . - Of the route they followed - through Persia , Oxiana , the Pamirs , Kash- gar and the Gobi desert Marco was later to give the first description ever to reach the West , and indeed virtually the last until ...
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... took place , in the course of which well over a thousand fugitives took refuge in a huge cave , quar- ried deep into the heart of the nearby Monte Berico . They would have done better to stay in Vicenza : before long a band of French ...
... took place , in the course of which well over a thousand fugitives took refuge in a huge cave , quar- ried deep into the heart of the nearby Monte Berico . They would have done better to stay in Vicenza : before long a band of French ...
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... took up their positions just outside , at Navarino ( the modern Pylos ) , and settled down to wait . Modone , they knew , could not maintain a fleet of such a size for long . The mountainous hinterland was barren and without roads ; all ...
... took up their positions just outside , at Navarino ( the modern Pylos ) , and settled down to wait . Modone , they knew , could not maintain a fleet of such a size for long . The mountainous hinterland was barren and without roads ; all ...
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Beginnings to 727 | 3 |
Emergence 727811 | 15 |
The City Rises Up 811900 | 26 |
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