One man to hold this post was deposed following a defeat at the hands of Robert Guiscard in Albania, while the last man to hold this office abdicated 
One man to hold this post was deposed following a defeat at the hands of Robert Guiscard in Albania, while the last man to hold this office abdicated following the Peace of Leoben in 1797. One of these rulers conquered Dalmatia in the eleventh century and another from the same family led his country to victory at the Battle of Chioggia. Like all holders of this office, Domenico (*) Contarini was installed after casting a ring off the bow of the bucentaur on Ascension Day and resided in a palace overlooking Saint Mark's Square. Technically local governors of the Byzantine emperor, these figures held power over a large shipyard called the Arsenal in a certain "Most Serene Republic." For 10 points, name this position held for nearly a thousand years by ruler of Venice.
One man to hold this post was deposed following a defeat at the hands of Robert Guiscard in Albania, while the last man to hold this office abdicated following the Peace of Leoben in 1797.
{Doge} of Venice [or {Doxe} of Venice]