Republic of Venice Venice, at one with the sea, was being born. Agnello was succeeded by his son Giustiniano, who stole the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist from Alexandria, took them to Venice, and made him the republic's patron saint. According to tradition, Saint Mark was the founder of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. With the patriarch's flight to Grado after the Lombard invasion, the patriarchate split into two: one on the mainland, under the control of the Lomabrds and later the Franks, and the other in Grado on the lagoons and the areas under Byzantine control; this would later become the Patriarchate
Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg Manezhnaya Square, Saint Petersburg Manezhnaya Square (, romanized "Manezhnaya ploschad") ia a square in the Tsentralny District of Saint Petersburg. In some guidebooks this square may be also named a "Riding-School Square": "riding school" is one of the variants in which and may be translated. The shape of Manezhnaya Square is close to the right-angled triangle. Its longest cathetus, the southern side of Manezhnaya Square is formed with "Italyanskaya Street", which runs parallel to Nevsky Prospect, at about hundred meters north of it. The shortest cathetus is "Karavannaya Street", which forms the eastern side of the square running from Nevky