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====Venetian Republic====
[[File:Mappa galeas colori.jpg|right|thumb|A map of the trip of the Venetian warships.]]
The land link between [[Adige]] River and [[Lake Garda|Garda]] Lake in [[Northern Italy]], hardly used by the smallest watercraft, was at least once used by the [[Venetian Republic]] for the transport of a military fleet in 1439. The land link is now somewhat harder because of the disappearance of [[Lago di Loppio|Loppio]] Lake.