Venice
Venice (Italian: Venezia Template:IPA-it, Venetian: Venesia) is a ceety in northren Italy kent baith for tourism an for industry, an is the caipital o the region Veneto, wi a population o aboot 272,000 (census estimate 1 Januar 2004). Thegither wi Padua, the ceety is includit in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Aurie (population 1,600,000).
The name is derived frae the auncient tribe o Veneti that inhabitit the region in Roman times.[1][2] The ceety historically wis the caipital o an independent ceety-state. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen o the Adriatic", "Ceety o Water", "Ceety o Masks", "Ceety o Brigs", "The Floatin Ceety", an "Ceety o Canals". Luigi Barzini, writin in The New York Times, described it as "undoubtedly the maist bonnie ceety built bi man".[3] Venice haes an aa been described bi the Times Online as being ane o Europe's maist romantic ceeties.[4]
The ceety stretches athort 117 sma islands in the marshy Venetian Lagoon alang the Adriatic Sea in northeast Italy. The saltwater lagoon stretches alang the shoreline atween the mouths o the Po (sooth) an the Piave (north) Rivers. The population estimate o 272,000 inhabitants includes the population o the whole Comune o Venezie; aroond 60,000[5] in the historic ceety o Venice (Centro storico); 176,000 in Terraferma (the Mainland), maistly in the lairge frazioni o Mestre an Marghera; an 31,000 live on ither islands in the lagoon.
The Republic o Venice wis a major maritime pouer durin the Middle Ages an Renaissance, an a stagin aurie for the Crusades an the Battle o Lepanto, as well as a vera important center o commerce (especially silk, grain an spice trade) and art in the 13t century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy ceety throughoot maist o its history. It is an aa kent for its several important airtistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. Venice haes played an important role in the history o symphonic an operatic muisic, an it is the birthplace o Antonio Vivaldi.
[edit] References
- ↑ Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved on 11 Juin 2010. .
- ↑ Richard Stephen Charnock (1859). Local etymology: a derivative dictionary of geographical names. Houlston and Wright.
- ↑ Barzini, Luigi. "The Most Beautiful and Wonderful City In The World - The", New York Times, 30 May 1982. Retrieved on 28 Mairch 2009..
- ↑ "Europes most romantic city breaks", The Times, 17 June 2007. Retrieved on 27 Mey 2010..
- ↑ Mara Rumiz, Venice Demographics Official Mock funeral for Venice's 'death'
