The Armenian people were only one of the strains of population that settled in Venice: in fact, the Greeks, Turks, Syrians, Jews, Germans, etc. were also added to it. This babel of languages and traditions led to the definition of the lagoon city as "homeland of all nations" due to its extraordinary openness to the world.
The area in which, in the twelfth century, Armenians used to meet, as well as their houses and shops, was San Zulian, where they set up their first trading center called "fontego", by the hand of Marco Ziani, son of the doge Pietro Ziani, with a testamentary
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