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Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Venice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Venice (Italian: Venezia), the "city of canals", is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice, Padua (Padova), in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, population 1,600,000. |
 | | In the 12th century the essentials for the power of Venice were laid: the Venetian Arsenal was under construction in 1104; Venice wrested control of the Brenner pass from Verona in 1178, opening a lifeline to silver from Germany; the last autocratic doge, Vitale Michiele, died in 1172. |
 | | It was realised that extraction of the aquifer was the cause. |
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