The Doge on the Bucintoro near the Riva di Sant'Elena (c. 1766–70) by Francesco Guardi
The Venetian navy (Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean world. It was the premier navy in the Mediterranean Sea for many centuries between the medieval and early modern periods, providing Venice with control and influence over trade and politics far in excess of the republic's size and population. It was one of the first navies to mount gunpowder weapons aboard ships, and through an organised system of naval dockyards, armouries and chandlers was able to continually keep ships at sea and rapidly replace losses. The Venetian Arsenal was one of the greatest concentrations of industrial capacity prior to the Industrial Revolution and responsible for the bulk of the republic's naval power.
Driven at first by a rivalry with the Byzantine Empire, and later the maritime republics of Pisa and Genoa for primacy over trade with the Levant, the Venetian navy was at times technically innovative and yet operationally conservative. With the final fall of Constantinople it played a key role in checking the maritime advance of the Ottoman Empire for over three centuries. The navy's long decline mirrored that of the republic, beginning in the 16th century and ending with the capitulation of the city to Napoleon in 1797.
The Venetiannavy (Venetian: Armada) was the navy of the Venetian Republic which played an important role in the history of the republic and the Mediterranean...
The Venetian Arsenal (Italian: Arsenale di Venezia) is a complex of former shipyards and armories clustered together in the city of Venice in northern...
overseas colonies. During the Ottoman–Venetian Wars, primacy was usually held by the commanders of the Venetiannavy, and the army forces served without...
the entire VenetianNavy and destroyed much of the Venetian Arsenal, a humiliating end for what had once been one of the most powerful navies in Europe...
list of sailing ships of the Venetiannavy. From the Cretan War to the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797, the Venetian Republic maintained a good number...
Iberian, Italian, Bohemian, Serbian and Byzantine troops (assisted by the Venetiannavy) at the hands of an Ottoman force, raising the siege of the Danubian...
Venetian Dalmatia (Latin: Dalmatia Veneta) refers to parts of Dalmatia under the rule of the Republic of Venice, mainly from the 15th to the 18th centuries...
Adria in Pace was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetiannavy, serving from 1739 to 1753. Adria in Pace belonged to the third and final batch of...
centuries wanted to control Cyprus and Venetian merchants worked on the island beginning in 1000 AD, when the Venetian (commercial and military) expansion...
and, for the Venetian domains, Venetokratia or Enetokratia (Greek: Βενετοκρατία or Ενετοκρατία, Latin: Venetocratia, "rule of the Venetians"), was the period...
San Carlo Borromeo was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetiannavy, serving from 1750 to 1768. San Carlo Borromeo was originally laid down in 1739...
The Republic of Venice (Venetian: Repùbrega Vèneta; Italian: Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which...
large frigate (fregata grossa) or second-rank ship of the line of the Venetiannavy. Ordered in 1720 and laid down in 1722 at the Arsenal of Venice, it...
Forza was a first-rank ship of the line of the Venetiannavy, serving from 1774 to 1784, although it was originally laid down in 1719. Forza was laid...
Mar, who lived on Corfu and had the supreme peacetime command of the Venetiannavy. In wartime, due to his absence at the head of the fleet, he was sometimes...
capabilities. When the Venetiannavy was in Sicilian waters as guards in 827–828, the Narentines received momentum; when the Venetiannavy returned, they calmed...
Another attempt to capture the island shortly after also failed. The Venetiannavy spent the remainder of the year in ultimately fruitless demonstrations...
neglected these reports as insignificant. Pelagius soon dispatched a Venetiannavy to intercept the Ayyubids, but it was too late as the Ayyubid fleet...
within the Venetiannavy as the elite infantry. They especially stood out in the wars against the Ottoman Empire throughout the Venetian overseas possessions...
known. During his eleven-year reign, he brought great change to the Venetiannavy, aided in the recapture of Ravenna from Lombard invaders, and cultivated...
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