The Venetian people were indigenous, and already present on the territory before Roman times. The Republic of Venice appeared out of the tumultuous centuries in late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages.

Invasions

• Invasions of Italy in Late Antiquity
• Venice might not have been

The earliest times

• Why did Venice become a republic?
• Why did Venice get rich?
• Why St Mark?

Legends

• The Birthday of Venice

Sources

• De Administrando Imperio by Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (c. 950)
• Translatio Marci Evangelistae Venetias (Latin) (late 900s)
• Translatio Marci Evangelistae Venetias (English translation)
• The Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon

Venetian Stories

• Episode 27 — Cassiodorus
• Episode 28 — The early sources