Somehow, I think the Venetians would be a little averse to being diploannexed by the Byzantines. (Of course, they'd be even more resistant to military annexation, but they'd be able to do less about that.)
Nice to see you've made it to the home stretch. Now let's see how the slide into the plate goes
Oh yeah, and something I've been putting off for a while:
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