Viva San Marco! ("Long Live St Mark!") | |||||||
| Anthem | "Inno Nazionale Veneto" | ||||||
| Capital | Venice | ||||||
| Largest city | Trieste | ||||||
| Other cities | Rovigo, Padua, Verona, Treviso, Belluno, Pordenone, Udine and Gorizia | ||||||
| Language official |
Italian | ||||||
| others | English, French, Venetian, German, Ladin, Slovene, Vietnamese and others | ||||||
| Religion main |
Catholicism | ||||||
| others | Unaffiliated, Judaism, Protestantism, Buddhism and others | ||||||
| Ethnic Groups main |
Venetians | ||||||
| others | Americans, Alpines, Slovenians, Germans, Italians, Friulians, Vietnamese, Chinese and others | ||||||
| Demonym | Venetian | ||||||
| Government | Federal parliamentary republic | ||||||
| Legislature | Great Council | ||||||
| Doge of the Republic | Marlena Marin | ||||||
| Premier | Luca Zaia | ||||||
| Area | 20,665 km² | ||||||
| Population | 1.239.771 | ||||||
| Established | Oct 11, 1987 as a federal union | ||||||
| Independence | from Italy | ||||||
| declared | 25 April 1997 | ||||||
| Currency | Italian Scudo | ||||||
| Organizations | Association of the Free Italian States, Mediterranean League and League of Nations | ||||||
The Repubblica federale di Venezia (Federal Republic of Venetia) is a nation born in 1997 by the union of Friuli and Venetia, formed in order to avoid total collapse and in fear of a possible Soviet advance towards Northern Italy.
History[]
In late 1983, Venice and the surrounding islands formed an emergency government. In 1984 with the finding that Italy had fallen into anarchy this government declared a new Venetian Republic. Between 1984 and 1987 the new republic extends its influence along the coast of Veneto and Trieste.
In 1988, Venice was occupied by the Sicilian Navy. The Venetian government took refuge in Trieste and find help from the Alpine Confederation. The Confederates meanwhile had already decided to curb the expansionist ambitions of Sicily and fought back by bringing under its control northern Italy. Sicily had to abandon his conquests north of the Apennines, including the islands of the Gulf of Venice, besieged by the combined forces of the Venetians and the Austro-Swiss.
The Alpine Confederation reorganized the north of Italy, formally annexed some territories such as Trentino, Aosta and the Valtellina but most of the territory was organized into several zones of occupation. Venice, although formally independent, was under Alpine occupation.
After years of turmoil and war, Veneto and Friuli-Ven-Giulia relied on the Alpine occupation to guarantee a measure of peace and order. As the region stabilized, leaders fostered the creation of a new state that would not appeal as a hallmark of nationalism already known, but would settle on the basis of a community of people forming a new Venetian nationality.
Politics[]
Although formally Venice is the capital of the state (and the city where that was founded) today is only a nice stage for the ceremonies of state (as investiture of Doge or signing of treaties), in practice Trieste works as an administrative capital and the ordinary basis of government agencies.
The State is a confederation of municipalities in which the central government has little weight (and the occupation of the Confederation further restricts the ability of central government initiative), exchanges of population from one side to another of the old boundaries have diluted national differences between Italians, Slovenes and Croats (although these still exist and are reflected in the existence of a nationalist political parties of each nationality).
Despite its status with the Confederation, Venice joined the Italian Peninsula Alliance with them in January of 2010. Their naval forces and marines aided San Marino along the eastern coastline of the peninsula after the IPA, with alpine support, intervened in February, and their army took command of a large force of volunteers between the Tuscan and San Marinese armies that joined in the advance there.
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