Venetsianskaia respublika. 1000-1503gg - Krouli R.

Venice is a city with almost no land. Everything necessary for life had to be imported by sea, which for its inhabitants was protection and destiny. And the Venetians, the born merchants, created a magnificent maritime empire that changed the world. The English scientist Roger Crowley talks about the rise of this empire, created on a unique system of islands, ports and strategic bastions. This is the history of the republic, to which the Crusades gave a chance to enter the world stage, a history of courage and duplicity, luck, perseverance, enterprise and periodic catastrophes, a story that proved the ability of a small maritime power to have global influence .