Not like his birth. I mean, he wasn't like a half Ottoman, half Venetian baby. His travels! So Venice is a city made up of hundreds of islands at the northern tip of the Adriatic Sea, but walking around it, you can't help but feel that the city is essentially a collection of floating buildings tied together by some canals. If ever there were a place where geography was destiny, it was Venice. Venice was literally built for ocean-going trade. As you can imagine, Venice didn't have a lot of natural resources except for fish and mustaches, so if they wanted to grow, they had to rely on trade.