A report on Venice, Veneto and Republic of Venice

The Adriatic's shores are populated by more than 3.5 million people; the largest cities are Bari, Venice, Trieste and Split.

In the Middle Ages, the Adriatic shores and the sea itself were controlled, to a varying extent, by a series of states—most notably the Byzantine Empire, the Croatian Kingdom, the Republic of Venice, the Habsburg monarchy and the Ottoman Empire.

The Adriatic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea, bordered in the southwest by the Apennine or Italian Peninsula, in the northwest by the Italian regions of Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, and in the northeast by Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania—the Balkan peninsula.

Padua (Padova ; Pàdova) is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy.

Padua is on the river Bacchiglione, west of Venice.

Padua came under the rule of the Republic of Venice in 1405, and mostly remained that way until the fall of the republic in 1797.

The four best known maritime republics were Venice, Genoa, Pisa and Amalfi; the others were Ancona, Gaeta, Noli, and Ragusa.

In 1866, Victor Emmanuel II allied with Prussia during the Austro-Prussian War, waging the Third Italian War of Independence which allowed Italy to annexe Venetia.

Many watercourses and coastal stretches have also been contaminated by industrial and agricultural activity, while because of rising water levels, Venice has been regularly flooded throughout recent years.

The Venetian Lagoon (Laguna di Venezia; Łaguna de Venesia) is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated.

Later, it provided naturally protected conditions for the growth of the Venetian Republic and its maritime empire.

Venice Lagoon was inhabited from the most ancient times, but it was only during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that many people, coming from the Venetian mainland, settled in a number large enough to found the city of Venice.

Verona (, ; Verona or Veròna) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants.

But a powerful league was formed against him in 1337 – Florence, Venice, the Visconti, the Este, and the Gonzaga.

It was then that Napoleon made an end of the Venetian Republic.

Treviso (, ; Trevixo) is a city and comune in the Veneto region of northern Italy.

People from the city also played a role in the founding of Venice.

After a Scaliger domination in 1329–1339, the city gave itself to the Republic of Venice, becoming the first notable mainland possession of the Serenissima.

It is in the Veneto region at the northern base of the Monte Berico, where it straddles the Bacchiglione River.

Vicenza is approximately 60 km west of Venice and 200 km east of Milan.

Vicenza came under the rule of the Republic of Venice in 1404, and its subsequent history is that of Venice.

The Po then extends along the 45th parallel north before ending at a delta projecting into the Adriatic Sea near Venice.

The Po Delta wetlands have been protected by the institution of two regional parks in the regions in which it is situated: Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.

The major authority on the lower Po was the Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, first formed in the 16th-century Republic of Venice.

Oderzo (Opitergium; Oderso) is a comune with a population of 20,003 in the province of Treviso, Veneto, northern Italy.

It lies in the heart of the Venetian plain, about 66 km to the northeast of Venice.

It would be contested between the bishops of Belluno and Ceneda, the comune of Treviso and the feudal da Camino (originally of the Camino castle, now part of Oderzo) and da Romano families until 1380 when it became a stable possession of the Republic of Venice.

Mestre is part of a borough of the comune (municipality) of Venice, on the mainland opposite the historical island city of Venice, in the region of Veneto, Italy.

The port of Mestre benefited from the economic power of the Republic of Venice, forming Venice's main connection with the mainland.