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'''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]]
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[[Category:Titles of national or ethnic leadership]]
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