Number
The best known maritime republics in Italy are Pisa, Genoa, Venice, and Amalfi and they are usually given in that order, reflecting the temporal sequence of their dominance. However, other Italian towns were maritime republics, though less known. These are Gaeta, Ancona and Noli. In addition, on the eastern coast of the Adriatic, in Dalmatia, there was the important Republic of Ragusa, centered on the city of Ragusa (today a part of Croatia with the name Dubrovnik).
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Famous quotes containing the word number:
“A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that is, they are actually already dead. It is fortunate for us that we do not see and do not know it. If we knew what a number of people are actually dead and what a number of these dead people govern our lives, we should go mad with horror.”
—George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)
“God ... created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed—that is the meaning of evolution.”
—Graham Greene (1904–1991)
“Black lady,
what will I do
without your two flowers?
I have inhabited you, number by number.
I have pushed you in and out like a needle.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)