The word 'doge' is not a word in English and therefore not a correct and usable term in written English.
You can use the term 'dog' in its place. Example sentence: He took his dog for a walk around the park.
Venice was contemptuously swept away by Napoleon, and the last doge voted himself out of office.
They were already calling him "duce" in 1920, before Benito Mussolini, but he did not have the staying power required to forge a political movement.Giuseppe Volpi, whom Mussolini called Venice's new doge, was more influential between the two world wars.
Soon after his election as doge in 1423, he made an alliance with Florence and began a war against the duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti.
A Minor Council of six members exercised executive powers alongside the doge, and magistrates were granted administrative and judicial functions.
The doge Tommaso Mocenigo maintained that his city had reached its political and economic zenith; it had a solid base in Italy that could compensate for its losses in the East, and it should not expect indefinite progress.
The Peace of Leoben left Venice without an ally, and Ludovico Manin, the last doge, was deposed on May 12 , 1797
He was elected doge in 1474; a new Venetian coin struck during his reign was given the family name.
A distant cousin, Alvise IV (1701 78), was doge from 1763 to 1778 and sought to reverse the declining fortunes of the republic by an enlightened commercial policy and a series of measures in restraint of clerical wealth and privilege that provoked a conflict with Pope Clement XIII.
According to tradition, the first doge was Paolo Lucio Anafesto, elected in 697.
Newly developed constitutional bodies took over many of the functions of government, and the doge on taking office had to swear an oath that restricted his freedom of action.
As ambassador at Avignon, Falier was negotiating with Pope Innocent VI (reigned 1352 62) to resolve the dispute with Genoa when he was elected doge in September 1354.
