Venetians in a sentence

During the war of the Venetians against the Ottoman Empire in 1687, the Venetians captured Athens, and Morosini’s cannons were fired at the Parthenon, causing damage.

In the years just before the coronavirus outbreak I spent months in the city of canals and culture interviewing Venetians about their lives.

As more and more wealth was created for many more Venetians and the city became one of the richest in Europe, the political structures in Venice began to change as well.

Revenue from the tourist tax will be used to offset the high charges that Venetians pay for services such as rubbish collection, which is more expensive because of the city’s unique geography.

The flooding of the past 24 hours has seen Venetians lose possessions in their homes, stock in their stores, and power — everywhere.

The Venetians made it the capital of Cyprus and remodeled the town’s fortifications.

After the fall of Constantinople, the former Roman Empire was partitioned among the Latin crusaders and the Venetians.

Alice ordered Filangieri to be arrested, and along with the Ibelins and Venetians, besieged Tyre, which fell in July 1243.

As a result, the Crusaders diverted the crusade to the Christian city of Zara at the will of the Venetians to subsidize the debt.

As Venetians emigrated, they sought similar patent protection in their new homes.

Geoffrey de Villehardouin points out that the majority of the knights, each with his own unit, as well as all the Venetians chased after the Cumans and land directly into the Bulgarian ambush.

He in turn chose to sell it to the Venetians for 100 silver marks.

Imprisoning the Doge within his palace, the Venetians nobles set fire to the building.

In the Aegean, the Venetians tried to take Lesbos in the spring of 1464, and besieged the capital Mytilene for six weeks, until the arrival of an Ottoman fleet under Mahmud Pasha on 18 May forced them to withdraw.

Lipinsky surmises that this typographical technique was known in Constantinople from the 10th to 12th century and that the Venetians received it from there (p. 78).

Millions of Venetians left their homes and their native land to seek opportunities in other parts of the world.

Nutmeg was traded by Arabs during the Middle Ages and sold to the Venetians for high prices, but the traders did not divulge the exact location of their source in the profitable Indian Ocean trade, and no European was able to deduce its location.

Pius II invited all the Christian nobility to join, and the Venetians immediately answered the appeal.

Pope Benedict XIV extended his veneration to the Republic of Venice in 1748 after a request from the Venetians.

Six hundred Venetians and a hundred Greeks were taken prisoner out of a force of 2,000, while Barbarigo himself was killed.