Posted on 03/23/2014 4:45:39 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Venetians have voted overwhelmingly for their own sovereign state in a ‘referendum’ on independence from Italy.
Inspired by Scotland’s separatist ambitions, 89 per cent of the residents of the lagoon city and its surrounding area, opted to break away from Italy in an unofficial ballot.
The proposed ‘Repubblica Veneta’ would include the five million inhabitants of the Veneto region and could later expand to include parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
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.
Wealthy Venetians, under mounting financial pressure in the economic crisis, have rallied in their thousands, after growing tired of supporting Italy’s poor and crime ridden Mezzogiorno south, through high taxation.
Activists have been working closely with the SNP on their joint agendas, even travelling to Scotland alongside Catalonians and Basque separatists to take part in pro independence rallies.
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Thought I checked for a NY post...missed by the time I was typing, I guess.
How long before Putin or the “Palestinians” claim them?
The “lagoon city” has about 60,000 residents. The entire metropolitan area about 1.6 million.
Where did these 5 million come from? And how the heck do 89 percent of 5 million people agree on anything?
Something is not right about this.
Venice is beautiful in November when I visited 3 years ago. Less tourists and the waiters treat you better. But be prepared for the smell. It’s like the entire city is so old the rivers are full of sewage. I always thought Napoli (Campania region) and southern Italy were good. (Our family, great granddad’s side is from there :)
I think venice will do just fine on its own. I like being in venice and If venice goes look for Mestre to follow within weeks and become part of Venice.
And Russia was criticized for the 97% Crimean referendum result.
How is this massive super-majority in Venice any different? Or is this also a so-called Soviet-style outcome?
Or the next San Marino.
In Veneto veritas. Repubblica Veneta ping.
arm pit ping
There’s a History Channel or maybe Smithsonian channel called Strip the City and they did Venice. My complaint was that they didn’t explain the sewage system. We decided that they didn’t have one. Smelly indeed.
The only time I’ve needed a Visa in Italy is to get cash from an ATM.
The options on the Crimea ballot were join the Russian Empire today or become an independent state which will later petition to join the Russian Empire.
No option to remain part of the Ukraine.
A total sham. Which is why so many refused to vote.
The referendum was neither free nor fair with state media propagandizing in favor of joining the Russian Empire today and the province under Russian occupation.
Feel free to resume Putin ball washing though.
Some territories further east, which would be separated from Italy if Venice were to secede, only became part of Italy after 1918 (such as Gorizia and Trieste).
Italian unification was accomplished by conquest and martial law, often with foreign troops fighting Italians to "liberate" them.
When told by his son that the man was there for the Venetian blinds,Yogi Berra replied, “Look in my pants pocket and give him five bucks.”
Perhaps the self determination movement will spread to the US. We could surely benefit from some semi-autonomous and fully independent nations in our corner of the world. The federal government is the biggest threat to the American people since its inception.
Turn around Detroit by turning it into a tax free city. Texas should become an independent republic. We could have a gay nation caved out of one or several states. We could have a Church run state. The possibilities are endless.
All we have now is one monster surveillance & police state. We can do better.
Italy lost territory in the 1940s—Istria, Fiume (Rijeka), Zara (Zadar), and a few islands to Yugoslavia, and the Dodecanese Islands, including Rhodes, to Greece. Tito’s troops briefly occupied Trieste in 1945 but were forced to leave—later Trieste and the surrounding area was divided into two zones. The border between the two zones later became the official international border between Italy and Yugoslavia, but that may have been as late as 1974. The area in question had belonged to Italy since the end of WWI.
Maybe some left-wing states will break with us and/or some liberal provinces from Canada.
Quebec redux?
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