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Venice
Venice is a city in north-eastern Italy built on islands in a lagoon, which became a major maritime and commercial republic in the medieval period. Venetian merchants gained extensive trading privileges in the Byzantine Empire from 1082, and Venice played a leading role in the Fourth Crusade's sack of Constantinople in 1204. It long dominated Europe's trade in Asian luxuries until the Portuguese opened the sea route to India.
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