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OTOH the city states in Italy and along the Dalmatian coast had extremely
prosperous functioning republics while still being firmly Roman Catholic.
Venice was a republic and extremely prosperous at the same time. The
Venetians still resent being part of the rest of Italy and often long for
the old republic. Algebra was invented in an Islamist world.