The Grand Duchy of Tuscany was the first of the Italian duchies to form a colony. Its first colony was New Tuscany. New Tuscany started out in the Guyana region and spread into Suriname. From Suriname the colony moved into Venezuela and then French Guiana. The East side of Venezuela was soon colonized by Tuscany. This colony soon spread to be too big to be controllable by the Tuscan governor, Thornton. Due to the size of the colony Tuscany divided the territory into two sections. The new section was known as the Viceduchy of Florence. The next country to colonize the Americas was Venice. Venice heard of the riches of Tuscany and realizing competition in the Italian peninsula was created as a Venetian colony. The Venetian colony also expands and forms two viceduchies. After Venice, Sicily s