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- (from the article "Venice") ... Situated at the northwestern end of the Adriatic Sea, Venice lies on an archipelago in the crescent-shaped Laguna Veneta (Venice Lagoon), which stretches some 32 miles (51 km) from the reclaimed marshes of Jesolo in the north to the ...
- Venetan
- group of dialects of Italian spoken in northeastern Italy. It includes the dialects spoken in Venice (Venetian), Verona (Veronese), Treviso (Trevisan), and Padua (Paduan). [1 Related Articles]
- Veneti
- ancient Celtic people who lived in what is now the Morbihan district of modern Brittany. By the time of Julius Caesar they controlled all Atlantic trade to Britain. They submitted to Caesar in 57 BC; but the next winter, disturbed ... [1 Related Articles]
- Veneti
- ancient people of northeastern Italy, who arrived about 1000 BC and occupied country stretching south to the Po and west to the neighbourhood of Verona. They left more than 400 inscriptions from the last four centuries BC, some in the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Venetia
- territory of northeastern Italy and western Slovenia between the Alps and the Po River and opening on the Adriatic Sea. Italians often use the name Veneto for the region around Venice proper (Venezia) and the name Venezia Giulia for the ... [3 Related Articles]
- Venetiaan, Ronald
- (from the article "Suriname") Area: 163,820 sq km (63,251 sq mi) | Population (2007 est.): 510,000 | Capital: Paramaribo | Head of state and government: President Ronald Venetiaan, assisted by Prime Minister Ram Sardjoe | BRITANNICA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2007Suriname
- Venetian glass
- variety of glasswares made in Venice from the 13th century, at the latest, to the present. Although a glassblowers' guild existed in Venice from 1224, the earliest extant specimens that can be dated with certainty are from the mid-15th century. ... [9 Related Articles]
- Venetian needle lace
- Venetian lace made with a needle from the 16th to the 19th century. Early examples were deep, acute-angled points, each worked separately and linked together by a narrow band, or "footing," stitched with buttonholing. These points were used in ruffs ... [1 Related Articles]
- Venetian Republic
- (from the article "Bedmar, Alonso de la Cueva, marques de") Nominated by Philip III of Spain as ambassador to the Venetian Republic (1607), he was made marques de Bedmar in 1614. He used his diplomatic privileges to promote the plans of the Spanish viceroys of Naples and Milan and to ...
- Venetian school
- Renaissance art and artists, especially painters, of the city of Venice. Like rivals Florence and Rome, Venice enjoyed periods of importance and influence in the continuum of western European art, but in each period the outstanding Venetian characteristic has remained ... [13 Related Articles]
- Venetian-Turkish wars
- (from the article "Italy") ...by the Venetians of Eastern trade. Second, the Ottoman Turks, having taken Constantinople in 1453, continued their advance in Greece, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. In the course of the first Turkish war (1463-79), Turkish cavalry raided Dalmatia and Friuli; ...
- Venetic language
- a language spoken in northeastern Italy before the Christian era. Known to modern scholars from some 200 short inscriptions dating from the 5th through the 1st century BC, it is written either in Latin characters or in a native alphabet ... [3 Related Articles]
- Veneto
- regione, northern and northeastern Italy, comprising the provincie of Venezia, Padova, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, and Belluno. It is bounded by Trentino-Alto Adige (north), Emilia-Romagna (south), Lombardia (Lombardy; west), Austria (northeast), and Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the Adriatic Sea (east). The ... [1 Related Articles]
- Venette, Jean de
- French chronicler who left a valuable eyewitness report of events of the central France of his time.
- Venezia, Palazzo
- (from the article "Rome") ...plan of a classical basilica. The present church, third on the site, dates from the 9th century and was restored in the 15th by the Venetian pope Paul II, who built the Palazzo and the Palazzetto Venezia around the church ...
- Veneziano, Gabriele
- (from the article "string theory") ...generally ignored relativistic effects. Instead, by the late 1960s the focus was on a different force-the strong force, which binds together the protons and neutrons within atomic nuclei. Gabriele Veneziano, a young theorist working at the European Organization for Nuclear ...
- venezolano
- (from the article "bolivar fuerte") ...It replaced the bolivar, which had been adopted as Venezuela's monetary unit in 1879. Prior to 1879, independent Venezuela used three separate currencies: the escudo, the peso, and the venezolano.
- Venezuela
- country located at the northern end of South America. It occupies a roughly triangular area that is larger than the combined areas of France and Germany. Venezuela is bounded by the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean to the north, ... [68 Related Articles]
- Venezuela, Central University of
- (from the article "Selected universities and colleges of the world") state-supported tropical garden occupying a 65-hectare (160-acre) site in Caracas, Venez. The garden has excellent collections of palms, cacti, aroids, bromeliads, pandanuses, and other groups of tropical plants of considerable botanical interest; also important is a large, untouched tract of ...
- Venezuela, flag of
- horizontally striped yellow-blue-red national flag with an arc of eight white stars in the centre. When displayed by the government, the flag incorporates the national coat of arms in its upper hoist corner. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to ...
- Venezuela, Gulf of
- inlet of the Caribbean Sea in Venezuela and Colombia, extending 75 miles (120 km) north-south and reaching a maximum east-west width of 150 miles (240 km). It is bounded by the Guajira Peninsula on the west and by the Paraguana ...
- Venezuela, history of
- (from the article "Venezuela") The following discussion focuses on Venezuelan history from the time of European settlement. For a treatment of the country in its regional context, see Latin America, history of.anticlericalismanticlericalismLatin America...and its ...
- Venezuelan Basin
- (from the article "Caribbean Sea") ...metres), extends from Honduras and Nicaragua to Hispaniola, bearing the island of Jamaica and separating the Cayman Basin from the Colombian Basin. The Colombian Basin is partly separated from the Venezuelan Basin by the Beata Ridge. The basins are connected ...
- Venezuelan boxwood
- (from the article "boxwood") ...small trees of the genus Buxus; about 30 species of shrubby evergreen plants are in the family Buxaceae. Boxwood also refers to many other woods with a similar density and grain, such as Venezuelan boxwood, or zapatero (Gossypiospermum praecox), a ...
- Venezuelan Cordillera
- (from the article "mountain") ...kilometres wide. Volcanoes occur in the westernmost chain, but all three have undergone crustal shortening. For example, the easternmost of the three, which continues into Venezuela as the "Venezuelan Andes," is being underthrust from the northwest by the Maracaibo Basin ...
- Venezuelan Llanos
- (from the article "Orinoco River") ...platforms between rivers and are some 100 to 200 feet above the valley floors. Away from the mountains they are increasingly fragmented, as in the dissected tableland of the central and eastern Llanos (the Sabana de Mesas) and the hill ...
- vengeance
- (from the article "Roman law") As early as the 6th and 5th centuries BC, Roman law was experiencing a transition from a system of private vengeance to one in which the state insisted that the person wronged accept compensation instead of vengeance. Thus, in the ...
- venial sin
- (from the article "sin") ...God; it is a sin in a grave matter that is committed in full knowledge and with the full consent of the sinner's will, and until it is repented it cuts the sinner off from God's sanctifying grace. A venial ...
- Veniaminof
- (from the article "Major volcanoes of the world") ...Aleutian Islands represent a southwestern extension of the mountain peaks, which stretch the length of the Alaska Peninsula and include many volcanoes, notably Katmai (6,715 feet [2,047 metres]), Veniaminof (8,225 feet [2,507 metres]), and Redoubt (10,197 feet [3,108 metres]). The ...
- Venice
- city, major seaport, and capital of both the provincia (province) of Venezia and the regione (region) of Veneto, northern Italy. An island city, it was once the centre of a maritime republic. It was ... [83 Related Articles]
- Venice
- resort city, Sarasota county, west-central Florida, U.S. It lies along the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Sarasota. Originally a fishing village settled in the 1870s, it was later planned (c. 1925) as a retirement city ...
- Venice Biennale
- (from the article "Art and Art Exhibitions") In 2007 the art world was engrossed with the once-a-decade convergence of three major international exhibitions: the Venice Biennale, Documenta, and the Munster Sculpture Projects. The 52nd Venice Biennale, titled "Think with the Senses-Feel with the Mind: Art in the ...
- Venice Film Festival
- (from the article "International Film Awards 2007") ...China's industrialization and its controversial Three Gorges Dam project was the theme of Zhang Ke Jia's Sanxia haoren ("Still Life"); the film won the Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival, though not everyone fell for its slow, contemplative ...
- Venice majolica
- tin-glazed earthenware made at Venice that reached its stylistic zenith in the 16th century. The workshops of Maestro Ludovico (fl. 1540-45), Domenigo da Venezia (fl. 1550-60), and Jacomo da Pesaro (fl. 1543) produced outstanding ware of this type. Venetian potters ...
- Venice Palace, Museum of the
- in Rome, museum occupying part of the papal apartment of the first great Renaissance palace of Rome. Dating from the middle of the 15th century, the Palazzo Venezia was built for Cardinal Pietro Barbo, later Pope Paul II. Displayed are ...
- Venice turpentine
- (from the article "turpentine") Various other oleoresins (solutions of resins dispersed in essential oils) are known as turpentines. Venice turpentine, for example, is a pale green, viscous liquid that is collected from the larch (Larix decidua, or L. europea). It is used for lithographic ...
- Venice, Gulf of
- northern section of the Adriatic Sea (an arm of the Mediterranean Sea), extending eastward for 60 miles (95 km) from the Po River delta, Italy, to the coast of Istria, in Slovenia and Croatia. It receives the Po, Adige, Piave, ...
- Venice, Peace of
- (from the article "Alexander III") ...in the 13th century. Frederick found himself increasingly isolated in Italy and at odds with powerful elements in Germany. His decisive defeat by the Lombards at Legnano (1176) paved the way for the Peace of Venice (1177), which closed this ...
- Vening Meinesz, Felix Andries
- Dutch geophysicist and geodesist who was known for his measurements of gravity.
- Venini, Paolo
- Italian glassmaker and designer and manufacturer of glassware, whose works are outstanding for their combination of traditional technique and modern form. His glass factory in Murano contributed to a revival of art-glass manufacture in the 1930s and '40s and employed ...
- venison
- (from Latin venatus, "to hunt"), the meat from any kind of deer; originally, the term referred to any kind of edible game. [1 Related Articles]
- Venizelos, Eleutherios
- prime minister of Greece (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), the most prominent Greek politician and statesman of the early 20th century. Under his leadership Greece doubled in area and population during the Balkan Wars (1912-13) and also gained territorially and ... [12 Related Articles]
- Venizelos, Evangelos
- (from the article "Greece") PASOK's defeat in the elections led to an immediate challenge of party leader Georgios Papandreou by former culture minister Evangelos Venizelos. PASOK's Political Council set a leadership vote for November 11. In the balloting Papandreou was confirmed with 55.9% of ...
- Venkata II
- (from the article "India") Shriranga died childless and was succeeded by his younger brother Venkata II (reigned 1585-1614), whose ability and constant activity, combined with a relative dearth of interference by the Muslim sultanates, prevented the further disintegration of centralized authority over the next ...
- Venkata III
- (from the article "India") ...warfare and the constant struggle to maintain a much-truncated kingdom along the eastern coast. Although some chieftains continued to recognize his nominal suzerainty and that of his successor, Venkata III (1630-42), real political power resided at the level of chieftains ...
- Venkataraman, Ramaswamy
- Indian politician, government official, and lawyer who was president of India from 1987 to 1992. [1 Related Articles]
- venlafaxine
- (from the article "drug") Other antidepressants inhibit reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine in variable amounts. For example, venlafaxine is a nonselective inhibitor of the uptake of serotonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. Nefazodone inhibits serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake and is an antagonist at certain serotonin receptors ...
- Venlo
- gemeente (municipality), southeastern Netherlands. It lies along the Maas (Meuse) River, near the German border. Chartered in 1343, it joined the Hanseatic League in 1364 and was a medieval fortress and trade centre. Venlo is now the centre of "greenhouse" ...
- Venn diagram
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in his Lettres a une princesse d'Allemagne (1768-74; "Letters to a German Princess"). These techniques and the related Venn diagrams have been especially popular in logic education. In Euler's method the interior areas of ...
- Venn, John
- (from the article "logic, history of") ...logic was published in the best philosophical journals from 1870 until 1910. This includes work by William Stanley Jevons, whose intensional logic is unusual in the English-language tradition; John Venn, who was notable for his (extensional) diagrams of class relationships ...
- Vennberg, Karl
- poet and critic who was the critical-analytical leader in Swedish poetry of the 1940s. [2 Related Articles]
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