Venetians

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>>2038893

I wish we knew more about the beginnings of Venice.

>>2038956
what don't we?

>>2038956
Unwashed Germanics rape the shit out of Italy, so Italian refugees fled to swamplands. Put in a bunch of logs in to drain it out and you got yourself a city. Since it was nothing but water no one is going to fuck you over for land (Medieval Europe didn't give much of a damn about trade routes). Mostly sustained themselves by trading with Byzantium which they were pretty much subservient to until the fourth crusade.

>>2038978
despite the crudeness this is mostly true

OP the longest lasting government system was certainly either the Dynastic system of China the Dynastic System of Egypt.

>>2038998
I'm guessing he's staying longest lasting republic

been that way since the fall of Rome until the Napoleonic wars

Venetians have a long history of skating by under the political hegemonic or direct overlordship of Europe. Medieval Venice leading up to the fourth crusade it was the "Byzantines" and after the fourth crusade they enjoyed some independent power. But then.You had the HRE swoop in amd become their overlords, even Austria directly conquering Venezia, Friuli, and Treviso proper

>>2038893
>longest lasting government ever

The answer is and will always be San Marino

>>2038998
OP here.

Kind of considering long lasting STABLE government, because although the dynastic system lasted the longest, no dynasty ruled peacefully over china for the amount of time Venice was a consistent democracy.

>>2038982
No it's not, it's a memefest full of ignorance and autism

>>2039069
Or Rome/Byzantium.

>>2039183
Nothing in that post is overtly incorrect or a falsehood it just needs to be better explained. Additionally you're a cunt.

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His Serenity Enrico Dandolo the Doge of Venice, Lord of a Quarter and One Half of a Quarter of the Roman Empire

>mastermind the fourth crusade
>get buried in the Hagia Sophia

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>>2039079
>Venice was a consistent democracy

>>2039221
Oh boy, I'm crying now

>>2038893
Byzaboos are still mad about the 4th Crusade