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The elected chief magistrate of the former republics of Venice and Genoa.

[Italian dialectal, from Latin dux, duc-, leader, from dūcere, to lead.]


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(Venetian Italian: "duke") Highest official of the republic of Venice in the 8th – 18th century. The office originated when the city was nominally subject to the Byzantine empire and became permanent in the 8th century. The doge was chosen from among the ruling families of Venice and held office for life. He held extensive power, as evidenced by the rule of Enrico Dandolo (r. 1192 – 1205), though from the 12th century the aristocracy placed limits on the doge's authority. Under Francesco Foscari (r.1423 – 57), Venice undertook the first conquests of the Italian mainland. The last doge was deposed when Napoleon conquered northern Italy in 1797.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: formerly the chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa

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For other uses, see Doge (disambiguation).

Doge (plural dogi or doges) is a dialectal Italian word that descends from the Latin dux (as does the English duke and the standard Italian duce), meaning "leader", especially in a military context. The wife of a Doge is styled a Dogaressa.

The title of Doge was used for the elected chief of state in a number of Italian "crowned republics". The two best known such republics were Venice (where he was called a Doxe) and Genoa, which rivaled each other, and the other regional great powers, by building their historical city-states into maritime, commercial, and territorial mini-empires.

Another Italian republic styled most serene republic, was minute and virtually insignificant. It was named after its capital city Senarica, west of Teramo (in Abruzzo) on Central Italy's Adriatic coast. Senarica also elected dogi, possibly annually, from 1343 until its annexation to the Neapolitan kingdom of Sicily in 1797.

In some of his writings, Theodor Herzl proposed the title of "Doge" for the Head of the Jewish State he envisioned; however, the actual State of Israel did not follow this idea by the founder of Zionism.

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