As a result, Venice was left in what has been described as the unusual “position of [a] small independent... duchy, situated in territorial isolation between two great empires, ” the Franks and the Byzantines.
მაგრამ ლაგუნას მკვიდრნი აჯანყდნენ და დამოუკიდებლობა გამოაცხადეს.