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Sentence Examples Throughout history the peninsula has been colonised by Scythians, Greeks, Romans, Khazars, Genoese and Venetians. There, a Genoese colony was under siege from a khan of the Golden Horde named Yannibeg, when his army was decimated by an outbreak of plague. The Papal State, too, was subjected to Ottoman raids particularly on its Adriatic coast, and Genoese ships likewise feared the Ottoman pirates. A free five-minute shuttle ride takes you to the beach club or the small town of Calvi, a lofty 13th-century Genoese citadel. It is also the best building by Genoese architect Renzo Piano for many years. The Algerian Admiral Ochiali outmanoeuvring the Genoese Admiral Doria, swept in from seaward with his fleet of sixty galleys and thirty galliots. The most famous was, of course, Christopher Columbus, a Genoese mariner sailing for Spain. Vassallo, a painter whose work is sometimes confused with that of his fellow Genoese, Catiglione, deserves more attention. Open-fronted shops sell the Genoese delicacy of farinata, a sort of crisp chickpea pancake. The Genoese have a reputation for working hard and eating on the hoof from hole-in-the-wall restaurants. The Columbus committee commissioned a well-known Philadelphia sculptor to cast a 9-foot likeness of the Genoese explorer. A 15th century Genoese bridge arched over a boulder-strewn stream near the remains of an old mill, once used for making chestnut flour. The Tartars used such a method against the Genoese in Crimea in 1346 and the fleeing Genoese tragically spread the black plague from Asia to Europe. The French first sent forward Genoese mercenary crossbowmen, whose weapons, their bowstrings slackened by a shower of rain, proved no match for the English longbows. King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella learned of the Genoese explorer's success not from his own pen, but from the mouth of Santangel. Nissa, which became Nizza under the rule of the Genoese and of the Savoyards, had nothing of the provincial about it. Strategically situated in the Mediterranean, the island has attracted an endless succession of invaders, from the Etruscans and the Saracens to the Pisans and the Genoese. Between sixteen thousand and eighteen thousand French and Genoese were killed, either cut down on deck or drowned. The citadels in the various cities were also built by the Genoese. The English diarist James Boswell wrote in 1769, only a year after the Genoese ceded the island to France, of the excellence and diversity of Corsican wines. Show More Sentences However, the arrival of craftsman and supplies transported by the Genoese to Jaffa tilted the balance in their favour. In the War of Saint Sabas, Venice drove the Genoese from Acre to Tyre where they continued to trade happily with Baibars' Egypt. The name Argentina was probably first given by the Venetian and Genoese navigators, such as Giovanni Caboto. In 1768, with the Treaty of Versailles, the Genoese republic ceded all its rights on the island. As Genoese and Venetian merchants opened up direct sea routes with Flanders, the Champagne fairs lost much of their importance. There wheat and later sugarcane were cultivated, like in Algarve, by the Genoese, becoming profitable activities. It was probably either made in Lisbon by the Genoese Canveri, or copied by him in Genoa from the very similar Cantino map. In 1298 the Genoese defeated the Venetian fleet at the Dalmatian island of Curzola. Almost all the Genoese galleys were sunk and 1,700 fighters and sailors were killed. Around the 1110s, Pope Paschal II asked Pisans and Genoese to organize a crusade in the western Mediterranean. Pisan and Genoese fleets fought the whole day in what became known as the Battle of Meloria. The Genoese emerged victorious, while the Pisan galleys, having received no help, were forced to retreat to the port of Pisa. The sea walls at the southern shore of the Golden Horn were defended by Venetian and Genoese sailors under Gabriele Trevisano. Many Greek soldiers ran back home to protect their families, the Venetians ran over to their ships, and a few of the Genoese got over to Galata. Shortly after the Venetians left, a few Genoese ships and even the Emperor's ships followed them out of the Golden Horn. By 1445, the Bank suspended operations focusing on servicing the Genoese state. Around 1312 Genoese navigator Lancelotto Malocello came upon the Canary Islands. The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of the term and used them as one word, amiral, from their Aragon opponents. Genoese merchants organized the slave trade from the Crimea to Mamluk Egypt. Genoese and Venetian fondachi littered the coastline from North Africa to the Crimea. Show More Sentences Command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the English Channel. The Genoese traders fled, taking the plague by ship into Sicily and the south of Europe, whence it spread north. The plague reached Sicily in October 1347, carried by twelve Genoese galleys, and rapidly spread all over the island. The epidemic reached Constantinople in the late spring of 1347, through Genoese merchants trading in the Black Sea. The Genoese bankers provided the unwieldy Habsburg system with fluid credit and a dependably regular income. In July he oversaw the occupation of Elba, but by September the Genoese had broken their neutrality to declare in favour of the French. A number of Genoese Baroque and Rococo artists settled elsewhere and a number of local artists became prominent. In 1355 the Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos granted Lesbos to a Genoese lord. The Ottoman Empire conquered most of the Genoese overseas territories during the 15th century. After the burning of the Arab fleet in the city's harbor, the Genoese and Pisan troops retreated. In the siege of Jerusalem in 1099 Genoese crossbowmen led by Guglielmo Embriaco acted as support units against the defenders of the city. The Republic's role as a maritime power in the region secured many favorable commercial treaties for Genoese merchants. Genoese Crusaders brought home a green glass goblet from the Levant, which Genoese long regarded as the Holy Grail. In the same century the Republic conquered many settlements in Crimea, where the Genoese colony of Caffa was established. In August 1282, part of the Genoese fleet blockaded Pisan commerce near the river Arno. Rising Ottoman power also cut into the Genoese emporia in the Aegean, and the Black Sea trade was reduced. In 1742 the last possession of the Genoese in the Mediterranean, the island fortress of Tabarka, was lost to the Bey of Tunis. Already cultivated in Algarve, the accessibility of Madeira attracted Genoese and Flemish traders keen to bypass Venetian monopolies. In 1298 the Genoese destroyed the Venetian fleet at Curzola, but were themselves defeated in 1354 at Sapienza in Greece. In 1519, a map produced by the Genoese mapmaker Visconte Maggiolo showed and named Barbados in its correct position. Show More Sentences Slave commerce during the Late Middle Ages was mainly in the hands of Venetian and Genoese merchants and cartels, who were involved in the slave trade with the Golden Horde. In the Battle of Ponza in front of the island of Ponza, the fleet met with 40 galleys of Andrea Doria, and managed to vanquish the Genoese and capture seven galleys. After saluting her, he led her to a couch that fronted us, where they both sat down, and the young Genoese helped her to a glass of wine, with some Naples biscuit on a salver. To the left of the emperor, further south, were the commanders Cataneo, with Genoese troops, and Theophilus Palaeologus, who guarded the Pegae Gate with Greek soldiers. This is what is related by the Genoese noble Antoniotto Usodimare. From 1350 to 1381, Venice fought an intermittent war with the Genoese. Prisoners taken by the Genoese were in the order of thousands. The conflict was named the War of Chioggia because the Venetians, after an initial success, were defeated in Pula by the Genoese, who occupied Chioggia and besieged Venice. The Genoese occupied it in 1255, beginning hostilities with the sacking of the Venetian neighbourhood and the destruction of the ships docked there. Venice, in contrast, soon ended its participation in the first crusade, probably because its interests lay mainly in balancing Pisan and Genoese influence in the Orient. The Genoese map of 1457 is a world map that relied extensively on the account of the traveler to Asia Niccolo da Conti, rather than the usual source of Marco Polo. Genoese and Florentine communities established since then in Portugal, who profited from the enterprise and financial experience of these rivals of the Republic of Venice. The Lombards who arrived with the Byzantines settled in Maniace, Randazzo and Troina, while a group of Genoese and other Lombards from Liguria settled in Caltagirone. An acknowledgement will safeguard the identity and authenticity of Genoese pesto and enhance the tradition of the home-made pestle and mortar product. The Principality of Gothia or Theodoro formed after the Fourth Crusade out of parts of the Byzantine thema of Klimata which were not occupied by the Genoese. During much of the 12th and 13th centuries, Venice and the Republic of Genoa were engaged in warfare culminating in the War of Chioggia, ousting the Genoese from the Adriatic. In essence, the Genoese bankers had worked out an interest rate swap. The only records of that war are from Pisan and Genoese chronicles. Other ethnicities include Genoese, Maltese, Portuguese, and German. In May 1684, as a punishment for Genoese support for Spain, the city was subjected to a French naval bombardment, with some 13,000 cannonballs aimed at the city. Show More Sentences Genoese bankers also profited from loans to the new nobility of Sicily. With linguistic variation, these ships were called carraca or nau in Portuguese, Spanish and Genoese, caraque or nef in French, and kraak in Dutch and Flemish. Under the ensuing economic recovery, many aristocratic Genoese families, such as the Balbi, Doria, Grimaldi, Pallavicini, and Serra, amassed tremendous fortunes. Through Genoese participation on the Crusades, Genoese colonies were established in the Middle East, in the Aegean, in Sicily and Northern Africa. Examples from Classical Literature The Genoese had striven long and hard to denationalize the Corsican people by the introduction of foreign and hostile elements. In self-protection we have found it necessary to unite, we Genoese and Texcocans. One of the pretexts for ringing this alarm was to have been an announcement of the appearance of a Genoese fleet off the lagune. The frightful desert of the taverna was not forgotten, nor the old Genoese castle, the office of the steamship agency. None ever returned, but USO di Mare himself spoke with the last surviving descendant of those Genoese. Daoud chose the bigger one, a Genoese arbalest drawn by crank, a present from King Manfred. The great Genoese had to wait yet three years for his long-sought duel. The chief actor was a Genoese born and educated at Constantinople. Janaway, the Genoese, and Haunce, from the famous Hanse confederation. Greif argues that these Genoese legal innovations made the rising city-state integral to commerce. The vessels were indeed so far apart now that the Genoese could use the full sweep of their oars, and draw away rapidly from the cog. So our sartorius, from general of an army, thus became a Genoese banker. The death of the Genoese leader did indeed bring the resistance to an end. The yoke of the Genoese continued longest, and was the heaviest. Genoese and Venetian traders came with their stores of Eastern goods. For the fourth time a Genoese had behaved most generously to me. Thus the Genoese, subtle as he was, was duped by Edmond, in whose favor his mild demeanor, his nautical skill, and his admirable dissimulation, pleaded. Find more words! 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