Venice,Italy

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges

Venice is the capital of the Veneto Region

The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC. 

Venice historically was the capital of the Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals"

Venice,the floating city has only been part of Italy for 150 years. The 1000 year–old democratic Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia, was quashed by Napoleon and was subsumed into Italy in 1866.

Napolean conquered Venice on May 12,1797 during the First Coalition

Venice became Austrian territory when Napoleon signed the Treaty of Campo Formioon Oct 12,1797.

Venice was taken from Austria by the Treaty of Pressburg  in 1805 and became part of Napoleon's Kingdom of Italy, but was returned to Austria following Napoleon's defeat in 1814

In 1866, following the Third Italian War of Independence , Venice, along with the rest of the Veneto, became part of the newly created Kingdom of Italy