About of Venice

Although no surviving historical records deal directly with founding of Venice

The name of the city, deriving from Latin forms Venetia and Venetiae, is most likely taken from Venetia et Histria, the

Roman name of Regio X of Roman Italy, but applied to the coastal part of the region that remained under Roman Empire

outside of Gothic, Lombard, and Frankish control. The name Venetia, however, derives from the Roman name for the people

known as the Veneti, and called by the Greeks Enetoi

Although no surviving historical records deal directly with the founding of Venice,tradition and the available evidence

have led several historians to agree that the original population of Venice consisted of refugees—from nearby Roman

cities such as Padua, Aquileia, Treviso, Altino, and Concordia, as well as from the undefended countryside—who were

fleeing successive waves of Germanic and Hun invasions

Venice sits atop alluvial silt washed into the sea by the rivers flowing eastward from the alps across the Veneto plain,

with the silt being stretched into long banks, or lidi, by the action of the current flowing around the head of the

Adriatic Sea from east to west.