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{{Short description|Central territory of the Republic of Venice}}
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{{Infobox Former subdivision
|native_name            = ''Dogado'' <small>([[Venetian language|vec]])</small>
|conventional_long_name = Duchy of Venice
|common_name            = Dogado
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|nation                 = the [[Republic of Venice]]
|subdivision            = Domain
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|era                    = [[Middle Ages]], [[Early modern period]]
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|year_start             = 697
|year_end               = 1797
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|event_start            = Traditional date of establishment
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|event_end              = [[Fall of the Republic of Venice]]
|date_end               = 16 May
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|p1                     = Byzantine Venetia
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|s1                     = Provisional Municipality of Venice
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|image_map              = Venetian Lagoon blank map.png
|image_map_caption      = The [[Venetian Lagoon]], with [[Mestre]] marked on the mainland, then (north to south) [[Murano]], Venice and the [[Lido di Venezia|Lido]] in the lagoon
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The '''''Dogado''''', or the '''Duchy of Venice''', was the metropolitan territory of the [[Republic of Venice]], headed by the [[Doge (title)|Doge]], traditionally from 697, and up to 1797.{{sfn|Ravegnani|2006|p=33-46}} It comprised the city of [[Venice]] and the narrow coastal strip from [[Loreo, Italy|Loreo]] to [[Grado, Italy|Grado]], though these borders later extended from [[Goro, Italy|Goro]] to the south, the [[Polesine]] and the [[Province of Padua|Padovano]] to the west, the [[Province of Treviso|Trevisano]] and [[Friuli]] to the north and the mouth of the [[Isonzo]] to the east.

Apart from Venice, the [[capital (political)|capital]] and in practice a [[city-state]] of its own, the Dogado was subdivided in nine [[districts]] starting at the north: Grado, [[Caorle]], [[Torcello]], [[Murano]], [[Malamocco]], [[Chioggia]], [[Loreo, Veneto|Loreo]], [[Cavarzere]] and Gambarare (in [[Mira, Veneto|Mira]]). In lieu of the earlier [[tribune]]s (elected by the people) and [[gastald]]s (corresponding with the Doge), during the Republic each district was led by a [[Venetian patriciate|patrician]] with the title of {{lang|it|[[podestà]]}}, with the exception of Grado, headed by a [[Count]].

It was one of the three subdivisions of the Republic's possessions, the other two being the {{lang|it|[[Stato da Màr]]}} ({{lit.|State of the Sea}}), i.e. Venice's overseas colonies, and the {{lang|it|[[Stato da Terra]]}} ({{lit.|State of the Land}}), i.e. Venice's domains in mainland Italy, the strategic and economic hinterland of the Dogado.

''Dogado'' was the equivalent of ''Ducato'' ([[duchy]]), the Italian city states that (unlike Venice) had a [[duke]] as hereditary head of state.

==References==
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==See also==
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* [[Venetia and Istria]]
* [[Byzantine Venetia]]
* [[Republic of Venice]]
* [[Patriarchate of Grado]]
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==Sources==
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* {{Cite book|editor-last=Cosentino|editor-first=Salvatore|title=A Companion to Byzantine Italy|year=2021|location=Boston-Leiden|publisher=Brill|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qo8cEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR3}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last1=Peters|editor-first1=Edward|editor-link1=Edward Peters (scholar)|editor-last2=Foulke|editor-first2=William D.|editor-link2=William Dudley Foulke|title=Paul the Deacon: History of the Lombards|year=2003|orig-year=1907|location=Philadelphia|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vn8NQIPShA0C&pg=PR1}}
* {{Cite book|last=Ravegnani|first=Giorgio|title=Bisanzio e Venezia|year=2006|location=Bologna|publisher=Il mulino|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X25oAAAAMAAJ}}
* {{Cite book|editor-last=Skoblar|editor-first=Magdalena|title=Byzantium, Venice and the Medieval Adriatic: Spheres of Maritime Power and Influence, c. 700-1453|year=2021|location=Cambridge|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUfEAAAQBAJ&pg=PR3}}
* {{Cite book|last=Wickham|first=Chris|title=Early Medieval Italy: Central Power and Local Society, 400-1000|year=1981|location=Totowa, NJ|publisher=Barnes & Noble|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8DYMAQAAMAAJ}}
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[[Category:Territories of the Republic of Venice]]
[[Category:1797 disestablishments in the Republic of Venice]]
[[Category:697 establishments]]
[[Category:Dukedoms of Italy]]

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