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Republic would have had little interest in "digging up the past" either to glorify or to mar his legacy. He was married to a woman named Sophia, who was according to legend a captive from the East.
239:, a key port in the peninsula, was followed by an insurgence which Morosini suppressed with atypical shrewdness: in 1150, reconquered Pula swore fealty to the Republic of Venice, thus becoming a Venetian possession. For centuries thereafter, the city's fate and fortunes would be tied to those of Venetian power.
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at a particularly tense time between Venice and the pontificate, which had caused the Polani family, strong supporters of the Pope, to break relations with the
Dandolos. In an attempt to reconcile the factions that had coalesced around the two families among the patricians, Morosini pushed for a
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1147:15th century
1077:Marino Zorzi
1070:14th century
1041:Reniero Zeno
1026:Pietro Ziani
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222:Peloponnese
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1533:Categories
646:Orso Ipato
556:1148–1156
292:References
218:peninsulas
207:Ionian Sea
169:chrysobull
672:(738–742)
272:had been
203:Kefalonia
44:1148–1156
40:In office
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468:Archived
406:Archived
244:Holy See
235:city of
155:and the
233:Istrian
205:in the
175:Kerkyra
157:Normans
137:Genoese
126:Otto II
94:of the
61:Unknown
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263:Marche
226:Greece
199:Andros
195:Lesbos
183:Rhodes
103:family
607:Doges
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187:Chios
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