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The history of the Jewish Community of Venice , which is the capital of the Veneto region of Italy has been well known since the medieval era.Beginning in 1516, the Republic obliged the Jews to live in an area of the city where the foundries, known in Venetian as "geti", had been situated in ancient times, to wear a sign of identification and to manage the city's pawnshops at rates established ...