The Lombard conquest of Ravenna and how the Venetians saved the Exarchate (730s or 740s), excerpt from the “Istoria Veneticorum” by John the Deacon.
The events around the demise of the Exarchate of Ravenna only involved the Venetians marginally. It is nevertheless important to the history of Venice.
Venetia existed within the Exarchate of Ravenna, as part of the Byzantine Empire, and what happened in the Exarchate mattered to Venetia.
An excerpt of the “Liber Pontificalis” for Pope Zachary about Lombard attacks on Ravenna around 742.