Doge 5208920 213859150 2008-05-21T02:28:00Z Catgut 1998211 Reverted edits by [[Special:Contributions/74.62.242.67|74.62.242.67]] ([[User talk:74.62.242.67|talk]]) to last version by Kubigula {{otheruses}} '''Doge''' (plural '''dogi''' or '''doges''') is a dialectal [[Italian language|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 title of '''Doge''' was used for the elected chief of state in a number of [[Italy|Italian]] "crowned republics". The two best known such republics were [[Republic of Venice|Venice]] and [[Republic of Genoa|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 [[Italy|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 [[Kingdom of Naples|Neapolitan]] kingdom of [[Sicily]] in [[1797]]. In some of his writings, [[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]]. ==See also== *[[Doge of Venice]] *[[Doge of Genoa]] *[[Doge of Amalfi]] [[Category:Heads of state]] [[Category:Noble titles]] [[Category:Titles of national or ethnic leadership]] {{Italy-hist-stub}} [[bs:Dužd]] [[bg:Дож]] [[cs:Dóže]] [[de:Doge]] [[et:Doodž]] [[el:Δόγης]] [[eo:Doĝo]] [[fr:Doge]] [[hr:Dužd]] [[he:דוג'ה]] [[lv:Dodžs]] [[lt:Dožas]] [[hu:Dózse]] [[nl:Doge]] [[ja:ドージェ]] [[no:Doge]] [[nn:Doge]] [[pl:Doża]] [[pt:Doge]] [[ru:Дож]] [[simple:Doge]] [[fi:Doge]] [[sv:Doge]] [[uk:Дож]]