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PIETRO ORSEOLO II

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PIETRO See also:

ORSEOLO

ORSEOLO II . (d. 1009), a son of the previous See also:

DOGE

doge, was himself elected to this See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 991. He was a See also:

GREAT

great builder, but his See also:

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

chief See also:

WORK

work was to crush the pirates of the Adriatic See also:

Sea and to bring a See also:

long stretch of the Dalmatian See also:

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

coast under the See also:

RULE

rule of See also:

Venice, thus relieving the See also:

commerce of the See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic from a great and pressing danger. The See also:

FLEET

fleet which achieved this result was led by the doge in See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person; it sailed on See also:

Ascension See also:

Day, the 9th of May 1000, and its progress was attended with uninterrupted success. In See also:

HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour of this victory the Venetians instituted the ceremony which afterwards See also:

GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew into the sposalizio del See also:

mar, or See also:

MARRIAGE

marriage of the sea, and which was celebrated each See also:

YEAR

year on Ascension Day, while the doge added to his See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title that of See also:

DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

duke of See also:

DALMATIA (Ger. Dalmatien; Ital. Dalmazia; Serbo-Croatian, Dalmacija)

Dalmatia. In many other ways Pietro's services to the See also:

state were considerable, and he may be said to be one of the chief founders of the commercial greatness of Venice. The doge was on very friendly terms with the See also:

EMPEROR (Fr. empereur, from the Lat. imperator)

emperor See also:

OTTO

Otto III. and also with the emperors at See also:

Constantinople, and in 1003 he sailed against the See also:

SARACENS

Saracens and compelled them to raise the See also:

SIEGE (0. Fr. sege, siege, mod. siege, seat, ultimately from sedere, to sit, cf. Class. Lat. obsidium, a siege)

siege of See also:

Bari. In 1003 his son Giovanni was associated with him in the dogeship, and on Giovanni's See also:

DEATH

death in 1007 another son, Ottone, succeeded to this position.

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