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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   THE FIRST DOGES OF VENICE, REPRESENTATIVES OF THE BYZANTINE ADMINISTRATION.

Authors:  GEORGE MARIAN LĂȚCAN. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  
DOI: 10.24193/subbto.2017.2.05

Published Online: 2017-12-22
Published Print: 2017-12-30
pp. 61-66
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The purpose of this study is to present the origins of the Venetian rulers and the relationship of the first doges with the Byzantine Empire. The fact that the first doges were officials of the Byzantine administration is an obvious form of Byzantine civilization over Venice. On the other hand, the accentuation of the Byzantine matrix of the Venetian doge is capable of shedding light on the role the doges have had in universal history. The fact that the Doges adopted the ideological hegemony of the Byzantine emperors, as well as numerous forms of protocol and ceremony, inspired the Venetian rulers to impose the North-Adriatic state as the main economic force of the Mediterranean Sea. The special status that Venice acquired on the Byzantine route explains today’s separatist tendency of the Veneto region, which also includes Venice. As all these tendencies find the answer in the past, it is necessary to research some important aspects of the relationship between Byzantium and Venice during the Middle Ages.

Keywords: Venice, Byzantine Empire, Doges, Middle Ages. 		 
         
     
         
         
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