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Venetia
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- For the place in Pennsylvania, see Venetia, Pennsylvania. For the novel by Benjamin Disraeli, see Venetia (novel).
Venetia is a name used mostly in a historical context for the area of Northeast Italy, corresponding approximately to the present-day Italian administrative regions of the Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
Venetia formed for a long time the Italian land portion of the Republic of Venice. In 1797, the Republic ended with Napoleon's invasion, and was included in the French Empire.
After the Congress of Vienna, 1815, Venetia was a part of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, a personal possession of the Emperor of Austria. In 1848, Venetia arose against the Austrians, forming the Governo Provvisorio di Venezia (Venice Temporary Government) that lasted only seventeen months. In 1859, Venetia became a part of the Austrian Empire, when Lombardy went to the Kingdom of Italy; however, Venetia remained under Austrian control until the Austro-Prussian war in 1866. When the Kingdom of Italy joined this war on the Prussian front, she was promised Venetia as thanks for her assistance.
In 1863, linguist Graziadio Ascoli designated the division of what was Regio X (Venetia et Histria) of the Roman Empire's Italia Province into three parts:
- Venetia Iulia (the current Istria, Carniola, Iapidia)
- Venetia Tridentina (the current Trentino and South Tyrol)
- Venetia Euganea (the current Veneto region of Italy).
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