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(37,305 posts) Sat Oct 6, 2012, 10:13 AM Oct 2012

Mass rally in Venice to call for independence from Italy [View all]

Two centuries after Napoleonic forces snuffed out the 1,000-year Venetian Republic, Venetians are once again aspiring to become an independent state.

Inspired by the nationalist aspirations of Scotland and Catalonia, pro-independence campaigners will hold a mass rally in the heart of the lagoon city on Saturday, calling for an urgent referendum to be held on the issue.

It may sound fanciful, and it will be fiercely resisted by Rome, but activists want to carve out a new country in north-eastern Italy which would comprise Venice, the surrounding region of Veneto and parts of Lombardy, Trentino and Friuli-Venezia Giulia.
The "Repubblica Veneta", as it would be known, would encompass about five million people.

Recent surveys show widespread support for independence among Venetians, who speak a distinct dialect and feel geographically and culturally distant from Rome.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/9589732/Mass-rally-in-Venice-to-call-for-independence-from-Italy.html

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Just on time to be underwater.... WCGreen Oct 2012 #1

I thought the same thing. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #10

EVERYBODY in Italy speaks a distinct dialect. hobbit709 Oct 2012 #2

Then you have the Italians in Switzerland who look down on all of them. grantcart Oct 2012 #4

Hell, the northern Italians look down on the southern Italians and Sicilians. hobbit709 Oct 2012 #5

I know but you should see how the Italians in Switzerland talk about the people just across the grantcart Oct 2012 #6

40 years ago when I was in Italy hobbit709 Oct 2012 #7

Ah, Ticino tama Oct 2012 #9

The rich north wants to ditch the poorer south. grantcart Oct 2012 #3

I was in Venice last year Nevernose Oct 2012 #8