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The Venetians had their overseas territories, the Stato da Mar, which stretched from Istria and Dalmatia to Crete and Negroponte. Though they would lose their Aegean possessions to the Ottomans, they managed to hold on to their Adriatic colonies until the Republic's fall under Napoleon. The Genoese had their own overseas possessions (Corsica, north Sardinia, Corfu, Chios, Cyprus, Caffa, and other small Black Sea ports) but rarely do I see timelines where they gain and hold territories for extended periods of time. What if they had their own "Stato da Mar" that they held onto for centuries? This would probably include Corsica and Sardinia, and the Aegean/Black Sea colonies during its early years. Other areas of expansion might be Elba, the Balearics, and Sicily once Venice/the Ottomans boot them from the Eastern Mediterranean, establishing their hold in the west.
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