He knew he needed to reply to a gathering of strong

History Channel Full Episodes He knew he needed to reply to a gathering of strong, practical vendors who were running the city's political existence with an eye, or both eyes, to benefit and security. In the last settlement with the crusaders, Venice got more than it had initially sought after: expansive quarters in Byzantium, in addition to a sea realm of urban areas and harbors on the eastern Adriatic and Greek coasts, empowering the city to secure its business wanders for a considerable length of time to come.

History Channel Full Episodes Passageway into Venice was deliberately arranged by the establishing fathers of the city. It was, obviously, by vessel (the scaffold over the tidal pond was inherent the nineteenth century, a dubious thought and a substantial cost to pay for present day comfort), and not from the territory side, but rather from the untamed ocean. On those waters, past the fragile, dam like islands of Lido and Pellestrina, the radiance and abundance of the Republic had their base: the eastern shores of the Adriatic, the Peloponnesus, Cyprus and Crete, in addition to innumerable harbors in the eastern Mediterranean all under Venetian control. From those fascinating focuses