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Question 1: After a ________ tie at the election of 1229, the number of electors was increased from forty to forty-one.
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Question 2: The doge took part in ducal processions, which started in the ________.
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Question 3: Every ________ the doge headed a procession from San Marco to the convent of San Zaccaria where the abbess presented him a new camauro crafted by the nuns.
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Question 4: In its earlier form this ceremony was instituted to commemorate the conquest of Dalmatia by Doge Pietro II Orseolo in 1000, and was celebrated on ________.
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Question 5: This was done by casting a ring from the state barge, the ________, into the Adriatic.
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Question 6: It took its later and more magnificent form after the visit of Pope Alexander III and the ________ Frederick I to Venice in 1177.
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Question 7: The Doge (________, also Doxe, derived from Latin Dux military leader, duke; cf.
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Question 8: On state occasions the Doge was surrounded by an increasing amount of ceremony, and in international relations he had the status of a sovereign ________.
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