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Doge

Doge (plural dogi or doges) is a dialectal Italian

Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
word that descends from the Latin

Latin

Latin is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Military history of the Roman Empire, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe....
dux
Dux

Dux is Latin for leader and for duke, and in Ancient Rome could refer to anyone who commanded troops, such as tribal leaders....
(as does the English duke
Duke

A duke is a member of the nobility, historically of highest rank below the monarch, and historically controlling a duchy or a dukedom. The title comes from the Latin language Dux Bellorum, which had the sense of "military commander" and was employed by both the Germanic peoples themselves and by the Ancient Rome authors covering them to r...
and the standard Italian duce
Duce

Duce is an Italian language word meaning leader or the second, derived from Latin word dux of the same meaning, of which Duke is a derivation....
), meaning "leader", especially in a military context.

The title of Doge was used for the elected chief of state in a number of Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
"crowned republics". The two best known such republics were Venice

Republic of Venice

The Most Serene Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a state originating from the city of Venice . It existed for over a millennium, from the late 7th century AD until the year 1797....
and Genoa

Republic of Genoa

The Most Serene Republic of Genoa was an independent state in Liguria on the northwestern Italy coast from the 11th century to 1797, when it was invaded by armies of First French Republic under Napoleon I of France....
, which rivaled each other, and the other regional great powers, by building their historical city-states into maritime, commercial, and territorial mini-empires.

Another Italian

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
republic styled most serene republic, was minute and virtually insignificant.

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Doge (plural dogi or doges) is a dialectal Italian

Italian language

Latin

Italy

Republic of Venice

Republic of Genoa

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
republic styled most serene republic, was minute and virtually insignificant. It was named after its capital city Senarica

Senarica

Senarica is a village in the Abruzzo region of central Italy. With a population of less than 300 people, Senarica was an independent republic for about four centuries until the end of the eighteenth century....
, west of Teramo

Teramo

Teramo is a city in the central Italy region of Abruzzo, the capital of the province of Teramo.The town is situated near the confluence of the Vezzola and Tordino rivers....
(in Abruzzo

Abruzzo

Abruzzo is a region in Italy, its western border lies less than 50 miles due east of Rome. Abruzzo borders the region of Marche to the north, Lazio to the west and south-west, Molise to the south-east, and the Adriatic Sea to the east....
) on Central Italy

Central Italy

Central Italy is a geographic area in Italy that encompasses four of the Regions of Italy:*Lazio*Marches*Tuscany*Umbria...
's Adriatic coast. Senarica also elected dogi, possibly annually, from 1343 until its annexation to the Neapolitan

Kingdom of Naples

The Kingdom of Naples is the modern day name for a polity which existed on the southern part of the Italian peninsula. Also known contemporaneously, and somewhat confusingly, as the Kingdom of Sicily, this kingdom was founded after the secession of the island of Sicily from the old Kingdom of Sicily as a result of the Sicilian Vespers...
kingdom of Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
in 1797.

In some of his writings, Herzl proposed the title of "Doge" for the Head of the Jewish State

Jewish state

The terms "Jewish state" and "homeland of the Jewish people" are used to describe the Zionism and the Israel and refer to its status as a nation-state for Jews....
he envisioned; however, the actual State of Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
did not follow this idea by the founder of Zionism

Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
.

Doge

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