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MOROSINI

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 861 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOROSINI , a See also:

noble Venetian See also:family, probably of Hungarian extraction, which gave many doges, statesmen, generals and admirals to the Venetian See also:Republic, and cardinals to the See also:Church. It first became prominent at the See also:time of the See also:emperor See also:Otho II. owing to its rivalry with the Caloprini family, whom it succeeded in subjugating by the end of the 10th See also:century. Domenico Morosini (d. 1156), elected See also:doge in 1148, waged See also:war with success against the Dalmatian corsairs, recapturing See also:Pola and other Istrian towns from them. See also:Marino Morosini (d. 1252) was elected doge in 1249; Michele was doge from See also:June 1382, until his See also:death in See also:October of the same See also:year.

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