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After the Fall of the Empire to the Kingdom of Venice
With the fall of the Roman Empire, Caorle became one of the most important cities on the coastline, so much so that it played an essential role in the founding of Venice, where the people from the mainland found a refuge in the remote islands of the lagoon, after the devastation of the Barbarian hordes who burnt Aquileia, Concordia, Oderzo, Altino and Padua. Caorle housed the refugees from Concordia and became a bishopric. In 1000 A.D. building was finished on today’s cathedral. Over the following centuries the town grew and became “powerful and full of people”. It provided ships and sailors for the Venetian fleets, but its decline coincided with the fall of the Venetian Republic. |
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