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The Stato da Màr is the name for Venice's lands outside of the old duchy and excluding its hinterland, the Terraferma. This includes western Istria, Dalmatia, Kotor and nearby Montenegrin towns, Durazzo/Durrës, the Ionian Islands, Chandia/Crete, Negroponte/Euboia, and a few other outposts on the mainland. For the Dalmatian Romance-speaking population, they were eventually Venetized to the point where the language eventually became extinct. Other had Venetian-speaking towns and upper class citizens, but the peasantry largely stuck to their native tongue whether it be Croatian, Albanian, or Greek. By the time Napoleon rolled around to end the Serene Republic, still only the main cities and towns in Dalmatia were Italian-speaking with mixed populations in the Ionian Islands.

What if there was a greater push for Venetization in the Stato da Màr? This could be accomplished with an early PoD post-Fourth Crusade by either more Venetian speakers immigrating to the outer colonies or perhaps a more intensive promotion of the language like in church services. What would be the implications of a greater Venetian-speaking population in these areas? How might such a push affect Venice for the better or worse? If the rise of nationalism isn't butterflied away, how might this affect pan-Italianism and the nationalist narratives of its neighboring countries like Croatia and Greece?
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