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Venice ( ; (イタリア語:Venezia) ) is a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of 118 small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges.〔 It is located in the marshy Venetian Lagoon which stretches along the shoreline, between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers. Venice is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture, and its artwork.〔 The city in its entirety is listed as a World Heritage Site, along with its lagoon.〔UNESCO: (Venice and its Lagoon ), accessed:17 April 2012〕 Venice is the capital of the Veneto region. In 2009, there were 270,098 people residing in Venice's ''comune'' (the population estimate of 272,000 inhabitants includes the population of the whole Comune of Venezia; of whom around 60,000〔Mara Rumiz, Venice Demographics Official (Mock funeral for Venice's 'death' )〕 live in the historic city of Venice (''Centro storico''); 176,000 in ''Terraferma'' (the mainland), mostly in the large ''frazioni'' (roughly equivalent to "parishes" or "wards" in other countries) of Mestre and Marghera; and 31,000 on other islands in the lagoon). Together with Padua and Treviso, the city is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), with a total population of 2,600,000. PATREVE is only a statistical metropolitan area without any degree of autonomy. The name is derived from the ancient Veneti people who inhabited the region by the 10th century BC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Online Etymology Dictionary )〕 The city was historically the capital of the Republic of Venice. Venice has been known as the "La Dominante", "Serenissima", "Queen of the Adriatic", "City of Water", "City of Masks", "City of Bridges", "The Floating City", and "City of Canals". The Republic of Venice was a major maritime power during the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and a staging area for the Crusades and the Battle of Lepanto, as well as a very important center of commerce (especially silk, grain, and spice) and art in the 13th century up to the end of the 17th century. This made Venice a wealthy city throughout most of its history. It is also known for its several important artistic movements, especially the Renaissance period. After the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna, the Republic was annexed by the Austrian Empire, until it became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1866, following a referendum held as a result of the Third Italian War of Independence. Venice has played an important role in the history of symphonic and operatic music, and it is the birthplace of Antonio Vivaldi. ==Etymology== The name of the city, deriving from Latin forms ''Venetia'' and ''Venetiae'', is most likely taken from the Roman name of ''Regio X'' of Roman Italy, but applied to the coastal part of the region that remained under Roman Empire outside of Gothic, Lombard, and Frankish control. The name ''Venetia'', however, derives from the Roman name for the people known as the Veneti, and called by the Greeks ''Eneti'' (Ἐνετοί). The meaning of the word is uncertain, although there are other Indo-European tribes with similar-sounding names, such as the Celtic Veneti, Baltic Veneti, and the Slavic Wends. Linguists suggest that the name is based on an Indo-European root *''wen'' ("love"), so that *''wenetoi'' would mean "beloved", "lovable", or "friendly". A connection with the Latin word ''venetus'', meaning the color 'sea-blue', is also possible. Supposed connections of ''Venetia'' with the Latin verb ''venire'' (to come), such as Marin Sanudo's ''veni etiam'' ("Yet, I have come!"), the supposed cry of the first refugees to the Venetian lagoon from the mainland, or even with ''venia'' ("forgiveness") are fanciful. The alternative obsolete form is ''Vinegia'' (:viˈnɛːdʒa);〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia )〕 (Venetian: ''Venèxia'' ; ; (スロベニア語:Benetke)) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Venice」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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