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The 1808 Napoleonic Land Registers of Venice: Spatial and Textual Dataset

2025

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This dataset presents a detailed reconstruction of the 1808 Napoleonic land registers of Venice. It combines digitized cadastral maps, transcribed ownership records (Sommarioni), and disambiguated personal entities. The data, created through semi-automated transcription and rigorous manual standardization, offers over 20,000 parcel geometries linked to more than 12,000 individual and institutional owners. It supports spatial, legal, and social analysis of early 19th-century Venice and is openly available in JSON and GeoJSON formats.

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2025

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Venice

Venice (ˈvɛnᵻs ; Venezia veˈnɛttsja; Venesia veˈnɛsja, outdatedly Venexia veˈnɛzja) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by expanses of open water and by canals; portions of the city are linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers (more exactly between the Brenta and the Sile).

Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice or Venetian Republic was a sovereign state and maritime republic in parts of present-day Italy (mainly northeastern Italy) that existed for 1100 years from AD 697 until AD 1797. Centered on the lagoon communities of the prosperous city of Venice, it incorporated numerous overseas possessions in modern Croatia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Greece, Albania and Cyprus. The republic grew into a trading power during the Middle Ages and strengthened this position during the Renaissance.

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The Republic of Venice (Repùbrega Vèneta; Repubblica di Venezia) was a sovereign state and maritime republic in Northeast Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and 1797. It was based in the lagoon communities of the historically prosperous city of Venice, and was a leading European economic and trading power during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the most successful of Italy's maritime republics.

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