Stores sold out of locks, guns, ammunition, window shades, and Venetian blinds. Marco Polo was born around 1254 in Venice, capital of the Venetian Republic. There remained the Roman and Venetian Republics. After the period of antiquity, Attica came under Roman, Byzantine, Venetian, and Ottoman rule. Peter returned from Venice with a current world map drafted by a Venetian cartographer. Murano is a series of islands linked by bridges in the Venetian Lagoon, northern Italy. All Star parties at The Venetian and Ice House Lounge in Las Vegas. Byzantine craftsmen played an important role in the development of Venetian glass. I'd even rather be posed artistically nude than photographed giggling from behind a Venetian blind. The French occupied Brescia until 1520, when Venetian rule resumed. They have been associated with the tradition of the Venetian Carnival. Veneto is home to a notable nationalist movement, known as Venetian nationalism or Venetism. In Friulian, there are also a plethora of words of German, Slovenian and Venetian origin. It was then that Napoleon made an end of the Venetian Republic. It was executed by Venetian craftsmen.