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PIETRO ORSEOLO II

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 330 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PIETRO ORSEOLO II . (d. 1009), a son of the previous doge, was himself elected to this office in 991. He was a

great

GREAT

builder, but his

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

work

WORK

was to crush the pirates of the Adriatic Sea and to bring a

long

LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

stretch of the Dalmatian

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

under the

rule

RULE

of Venice, thus relieving the commerce of the republic from a

great

GREAT

and pressing danger. The

fleet

FLEET

which achieved this result was led by the doge in person; it sailed on Ascension Day, the 9th of May 1000, and its progress was attended with uninterrupted success. In honour of this victory the Venetians instituted the ceremony which afterwards grew into the sposalizio del mar, or

marriage

MARRIAGE

of the sea, and which was celebrated each year on Ascension Day, while the doge added to his title that of duke of Dalmatia. In many other ways Pietro's services to the state were considerable, and he may be said to be one of the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

founders of the commercial greatness of Venice. The doge was on very friendly terms with the emperor Otto III. and also with the emperors at

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

, and in 1003 he sailed against the Saracens and compelled them to raise the siege of Bari. In 1003 his son Giovanni was associated with him in the dogeship, and on Giovanni's death in 1007 another
son, Ottone, succeeded to this position.

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