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The Septinsular Republic (Greek: Ἑπτάνησος Πολιτεία, romanized: Heptanēsos Politeia; Italian: Repubblica Settinsulare), also known as the Republic of the Seven United Islands, [a] was an oligarchic republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefkada, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakynthos or Zante, and ...
The successor state of the Septinsular Republic, it covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, as well as the port of Parga on the Greek mainland. It was ceded by the British to Greece as a gift to the newly enthroned King George I, [7] apart from Parga, which had been sold to Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1819. [8]
Meeting room of the Ionian Senate, in the Palace of St. Michael and St. George, Corfu. The Ionian Senate (Greek: Ιόνιος Γερουσία) was the executive and later legislative body of the Septinsular Republic (1800–1807/1814) and the upper legislative house of its successor, the United States of the Ionian Islands (1815–1864).
Antonios Maria Kapodistrias was born in 1741 in Corfu, the most populous of the Ionian Islands, then under Venetian rule.He was descended from a distinguished noble family of counts that had a long and significant presence in the island's politics, economy, and social affairs. [4]
The flag of the Septinsular Republic (1800–1807), the first self-governed Greek state since the Middle Ages Ioannis Kapodistrias from the Island of Corfu, founder and first Governor (1828–1831) of the modern Greek state. In 1797 the French general Napoléon Bonaparte conquered Venice.
The Ionian Senate, declaring that the Septinsular Republic had been suspended but not abolished under the French and British occupations, tried to advocate for the independence of the Islands in the Congress of Vienna, but Campbell refused to accept this view, holding that the Republic had ceased to exist after Tilsit, and regarding the French ...
Initially relocating to Parga, the Souliote refugees were forced to cross the sea to the Septinsular Republic in March 1804, after Ali Pasha threatened to attack the city to rid it of the Souliotes. [2] [3] Approximately 3,000 Souliotes settled in the Ionian Islands, mostly in Corfu and Paxi, where they were provided with farmland. The warlike ...
The Septinsular Republic survived until 1807, when the Treaty of Tilsit once again surrendered the islands to France. [51] While the Republic was abolished, its constitution and forms of governance were retained during this second period of French rule. The renewed French presence in the area aroused the opposition of the British, who ...