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Venice was, in the sixteenth century, a significant and powerful state with a large empire, although not as large as it had been. The Venetians had been an important component of the Battle of Lepanto in 1570 which had halted the expansion of the Ottomans in the Mediterranean. However, Venetian political and economic power was on the wane as a result of the development of trade routes through the Atlantic by the Spanish. Portuguese and even the English which made Venetian control of the Mediterranean less important.

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