Definitions
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- noun an arm of the Adriatic Sea
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When Attila, king of the Huns, besieged Aquileia, the inhabitants, after defending themselves a long time, began to despair of effecting their safety, and fled for refuge to several uninhabited rocks, situated at the point of the Adriatic Sea, now called the Gulf of Venice, carrying with them whatever movable property they possessed.
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When Attila, king of the Huns, besieged Aquileia, the inhabitants, after defending themselves a long time, began to despair of effecting their safety, and fled for refuge to several uninhabited rocks, situated at the point of the Adriatic Sea, now called the Gulf of Venice, carrying with them whatever movable property they possessed.
History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy Niccol�� Machiavelli 1498
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City in northeastern Italy, built on 118 islets within a lagoon in the Gulf of Venice, an arm of the Adriatic Sea.
Venice 2002
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_Adriatic Sea_, a name given to the Gulf of Venice.
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I want no other proof of his sentiments than the offer he made to give up Egypt to the Grand Seignior, and to restore all the ports of the Gulf of Venice and of the Mediterranean to the St.tes to which they had previously belonged; to surrender Malta to the order of the Knights of St. John, and even to raze its fortifications if England should think such a measure necessary for her interests.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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They did this by a system of lagoon defenses from the lower Piave to the Gulf of Venice.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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A Gulf is a part of an ocean or sea, which runs up considerably into the land, as the Gulf of Venice, the Gulf of Mexico, &c.
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In "Mazorbo and Torcello, Gulf of Venice," however, the right-hand corner is extra-parochial to the scene -- is unbalanced, and injures the composition.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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To the captain of the Gulf of Venice she dispatched every year a piece of plate, to the King of the Two Sicilies she presented a dozen falcons, with a very respectful letter, and the Pope, who was not forgotten, overlooked her annual tribute to the Turk and proclaimed her to be the outer defences of
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 1 Henry Baerlein 1917
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From these resemblances to the Italian city, Ojeda gave to the bay the name of the Gulf of Venice, and it is called at the present day
Amerigo Vespucci Frederick Albion Ober 1881
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