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Documents on the older commercial and political history of the Republic of Venice, part 1, 814 to 1205

Venice's treaties and privileges in full text. For 1200 it holds Alexios III's chrysobull of November 1198 defining Venetian rights in the Byzantine Empire, the truce with Pisa, the pacts with Zadar, Ragusa and the Dalmatian towns, and the agreements with Verona, Treviso and the patriarch of Aquileia that fixed Venice's position in the Adriatic and the terraferma on 1 January 1200.

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Title
Urkunden zur älteren Handels- und Staatsgeschichte der Republik Venedig, Theil 1 (814 to 1205)
Author
Various
Author's dates
edited by G. L. F. Tafel (1787 to 1860) and G. M. Thomas (1817 to 1887)
Written
documents of 814 to 1205, edited 1856
Language
Latin and Greek
Covers
814 to 1205
Kind
Collection of sources

The 1198 chrysobull has a modern edition in Pozza and Ravegnani, we trattati con Bisanzio (1993), not free online.

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