Tommaso Condulmier
Tommaso Condulmer (20 August 1759 – 7 January 1823) was a Republic of Venice, Venetian naval officer and nobleman. After the death of Angelo Emo he took command of the Venetian navy, and held major responsibilities in the aborted defense of Venice against Napoleon's forces which eventually led to the fall of the Republic of Venice in 1797. Biography Tommaso Condulmer was born in Venice on 20 AUgust 1759 to the Venetian patriciate, patrician Condulmer family. His father was Domenico Condulmer, and his mother Elisabetta Soranzo. He enrolled in the Venetian navy at a very young age, and rose rapidly through the ranks to become commander of his own ship () by 1784, when he participated in Angelo Emo's Venetian bombardments of the Beylik of Tunis, expeditionary fleet against the Beylik of Tunis. In late 1786, Condulmer was elected (rear admiral) and replaced Emo on station off the Tunisian coast with a small squadron, while the main fleet returned to Corfu. Raising his flag on the ...
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Venice
Venice ( ; it, Venezia ; vec, Venesia or ) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto Regions of Italy, region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po River, Po and the Piave River, Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta (river), Brenta and the Sile (river), Sile). In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the ''Comune di Venezia'', of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice (''centro storico'') and the rest on the mainland (''terraferma''). Together with the cities of Padua, Italy, Padua and Treviso, Italy, Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million. The name is derived from the ancient Adri ...
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