(“veneto” (/ˈveɪnəˌtoʊ/ or /ˈvɛnətoʊ/, Italian: [ˈvɛːneto]) or Venetia (/vɪˈniːʃə/ – Latin: Venetia; Venetian: Vèneto; more specifically Venezia Euganea) is 1 of the 20 regions of ‘italy’)
(its population is about 5 million, ranking 5th in ‘Italy’)
(the region’s capital and largest city is ‘Venice’)
(‘Veneto’ was part of the ‘Roman Empire’ until the ‘5th century AD’)
(later, after a feudal period, it was part of the ‘Republic of Venice’ until 1797)
(‘Venice’ ruled for centuries over one of the largest and richest maritime republics and trade empires in the world)
(after the ‘Napoleonic Wars’ and the ‘Congress of Vienna’, the ‘Republic’ was annexed by the ‘Austrian Empire’, until it was ceded to the ‘Kingdom of Italy’ in 1866, as a result of the ‘Third Italian War of Independence’)
(the ‘Statute of Veneto’ describes Venetians as a “people”)
(besides ‘Italian’, most inhabitants also speak ‘Venetian’)
(having been for a long period in history a land of ‘mass emigration’, ‘Veneto’ is today one of the greatest immigrant-receiving regions in the country, with 454,453 foreigners (9.30% of the regional population) in 2008, the most recent of which are ‘Romanian’ and ‘Moroccan’)
(the region is home to a notable nationalist movement)
(the region’s largest party is the ‘Venetist’ / ‘Padanist Liga Veneta’, a founding member of ‘Lega Nord’)
(the current ‘President of Veneto’ is ‘Luca Zaia’ (‘Liga Veneta–Lega Nord’), elected in 2010 with 60.2% of the vote and the support of ‘Lega Nord’, ‘The People of Freedom’ and the ‘Alliance’ of the ‘centre’)