biography
pronunciation:
[dandoloh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1110–1205)
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| biography:
| Italian statesman, born in Venice, NE Italy. In 1173 he was ambassador to Constantinople, and in 1192 became Doge of Venice. In 1202 he marched at the head of the Fourth Crusade, subduing Trieste and Zara, the coasts of Albania, the Ionian Is, and (1205) Constantinople, where he established the empire of the Latins. |
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