In the centuries that followed, Venice went on to measure itself militarily against a number of powers that contended with it in the Mediterranean, including the Saracens, Normans, and Byzantines.
इस साम्राज्य की राजधानी, कॉन्सटनटीनोपल थी जिसे आज इस्तानबुल के नाम से जाना जाता है ।