Gazaria (Genoese colonies) GreatCouncilandMinorCouncilofGenoa Corsican, Greek and Arabic were also spoken in the colonies of the Republic Roman Catholicism...
The GreatCouncil or Major Council (Italian: Maggior Consiglio; Venetian: Mazor Consegio) was a political organ of the Republic of Venice between 1172...
Genoa (/ˈdʒɛnoʊə/ JEN-oh-ə, Italian: Genova, Italian: [ˈdʒɛːnova] ; Ligurian: Zêna, Ligurian: [ˈzeːna]) is a city in and the capital of the Italian region...
Ecumenical Councilof the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical councilof the Catholic...
an embassy to Genoa to engage in negotiations. The two contending parties, Benedict and Gregory, were summoned once again at the doors of the cathedral...
bodies were the ''Maggior Consiglio'' (GreatCouncil), the ''Minor Consiglio'' (MinorCouncil) and the Councilof the Elders (with ten members). Though...
The Raid on Genoa was a minor naval engagement fought in the harbour of the Italian city ofGenoa during the first year of the French Revolutionary Wars...
island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea. It was proclaimed in July 1755 by Pasquale Paoli, who was seeking independence from the Republic ofGenoa. Paoli...
danger to himself, and instead of giving him further military commands made him governor ofGenoa. Carmagnola felt greatly aggrieved, and failing to obtain...
power ofGenoaand sometimes collaborated to increase the trading benefits in Constantinople. In 1209 in Lerici, two councils for a final resolution of the...
of Florence Kingdom of Naples Duchy of Milan Republic ofGenoa Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica Kingdom of Sicily Duchy of Ferrara Duchy of Modena and...
Crusade. However, economic concessions to the Italian Republics of Venice andGenoa weakened the empire's control over its own finances, especially from...
were in the hand of the MinorCouncil, then a separate civil court and criminal court were established, leaving the MinorCounciland the Senate only supreme...
in Genoa. The former, adopted with a majority of votes (but not unanimously, Metropolitan Eulogius Georgiyevsky being the most prominent critic of such...
members of the GreatCouncilof Venice, the city-state's parliament, and ruled for life. The ruling class was an oligarchy of merchants and Venetian aristocrats...
of the French Army of Italy, André Masséna, launched a counter-offensive and secured supply routes to Genoa following victory at the First Battle of Dego...
Grand Council. It was finally the "gioco grosso", the great game, which Grandi had been waiting for. After the failure of the Feltre meeting and the first...
maritime cities of Pisa andGenoa by removing the excommunication cast over Pisa by his predecessor Celestine III and concluding a pact with Genoa. Innocent...
native Genoa, and then headed to Lyons, where the idea of an ecumenical council took shape. Teobaldo helped to organize the Ecumenical Council which met...