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LakeVermilion

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Mon Jan 26, 2026, 09:10 PM

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the original Ghetto was in Venice? Jewish traders, mostly from Spain, lived in a compound across a bridge from the trading center. They were forced to sign in and out daily to travel into trading mecca of Venice.

I believe this was part of history of the Silk Road.

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