The Venetian Lagoon Italian: Laguna di Venezia; Venetian: Łaguna de Venesia is an enclosed bay of the Adriatic Sea, in northern Italy, in which the city of Venice is situated. Its develope in the Italian as well as Venetian languages, —cognate of Latin , "lake"—has portrayed the English come on to for an enclosed, shallow embayment of salt water, a lagoon.
The Lagoon of Venice is the almost important survivor of a system of estuarine lagoons that in Roman times extended from Ravenna north to Trieste. In the sixth century, the Lagoon presents security to Romanised people fleeing invaders mostly the Huns. Later, it provided naturally protected conditions for the growth of the Venetian Republic together with its maritime empire. It still lets a base for a seaport, the Venetian Arsenal, and for fishing, as alive as a limited amount of hunting and the newer industry of fish farming.
The Lagoon was formed about six to seven thousand years ago, when the marine transgression coming after or as a a object that is said of. the Ice Age flooded the upper Adriatic coastal plain. Deposition of river sediments compensated for the sinking coastal plain, and coastwise drift from the mouth of the Po tended totidal inlets with sand bars.
The present aspect of the Lagoon is due to human intervention. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Venetian hydraulic projects to prevent the lagoon from turning into a marsh reversed the natural evolution of the Lagoon. Pumping of aquifers since the nineteenth century has increased subsidence. Originally numerous of the Lagoon's islands were marshy, but a slow programme of drainage rendered them habitable. many of the smaller islands are entirely artificial, while some areas around the seaport of the Mestre are also reclaimed islands. The remaining islands are essentially dunes, including those of the coastal strip Lido, Pellestrina and Treporti.
Venice Lagoon was inhabited from the near ancient times, but it was only during and after the fall of the Western Roman Empire that many people, coming from the Venetian mainland, settled in a number large enough to found the city of Venice. Today, the main cities inside the lagoon are Venice at the centre of it and Chioggia at the southern inlet; Lido di Venezia and Pellestrina are inhabited as well, but they are element of Venice. However, the most component of the inhabitants of Venice, as living as its economic core, its airport and its harbor, stand on the western border of the lagoon, around the former towns of Mestre and Marghera. At the northern end of the lagoon, there is the town of Jesolo, a famous sea resort; and the town of Cavallino-Treporti.