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1. Venetian Doge

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   Decline and Abolition
   The Dogeate formally ended on May 12, 1797, when Napoleon Bonaparte, following the conquest of the mainland territories, forced the last Doge, Ludovico Manin, to abdicate. Manin's final official act was to preside over the ceremonial dismantling of the Great Clock of St. Mark's, a device famously calibrated to run precisely 14 seconds slower per decade to account for the perceived…