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For most of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, the Republic of Venice had the most complex, well-organized, and effective intelligence and counterintelligence network in Europe and the Mediterranean region. While the Ottoman Empire also had a vast and sophisticated intelligence… pic.twitter.com/ZfzBNFOeER

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