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Septinsular Republic

1800–1807

The Republic of the Seven United Islands (Greek Heptánēsos Politeía), in the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefkada, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakynthos, Kythira). Established by the Treaty of Constantinople (2 April [O.S.

Existed
1800–1807
Shown on the map
1800–1819
Peak area
3k km²
Region
Europe

Overview

The Republic of the Seven United Islands (Greek Heptánēsos Politeía), in the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefkada, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakynthos, Kythira). Established by the Treaty of Constantinople (2 April [O.S. 21 March] 1800) between Russia and the Ottoman Empire after their joint expulsion of the French, it was an oligarchic republic under nominal Ottoman suzerainty and effective Russian protection. It was the first autonomous Greek state since the fall of the Byzantine Morea (1460) — "Greece before Greece." Its conservative "Byzantine Constitution" (signed at Constantinople) entrenched the island nobility; it had its own flag (blessed by the Patriarch of Constantinople), coinage (the gazeta), a senate, and presidents (Spyridon Theotokis 1800–1803; Antonios Komoutos 1803–1807). It was ceded to Napoleon's France by the Treaty of Tilsit (1807) and later became the British-protected United States of the Ionian Islands (1815), united with Greece in 1864. (The Kapodistrias family — including the future first governor of independent Greece — was prominent in its founding.)

Common questions

What was the Septinsular Republic?
The Republic of the Seven United Islands (Greek Heptánēsos Politeía), in the Ionian Islands (Corfu, Paxoi, Lefkada, Cephalonia, Ithaca, Zakynthos, Kythira). Established by the Treaty of Constantinople (2 April [O.S.
When did the Septinsular Republic exist?
The Septinsular Republic existed 1800–1807. On this map it is drawn 1800–1819.
How large was the Septinsular Republic?
At its greatest extent drawn on this map, the Septinsular Republic covered about 3,000 km². That is the largest area the border data gives it across the years it is drawn, not necessarily its greatest extent in history.

Sources

This compendium cites its sources once for the whole document rather than per territory. Its bibliography names the English Wikipedia articles for each polity as the primary basis, cross-checked against Encyclopædia Britannica, the World History Encyclopedia and the scholarship of Donald Queller, Thomas Madden and Jonathan Harris on the Fourth Crusade, whose post-conspiracy reading of 1204 this document follows. The article this entry is anchored on:

This entry was last updated .

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Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0: reuse it with a credit to The World Through Time and a link to this page. Passages drawing on the Wikipedia articles listed above are also licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 by their contributors.

Border geometry for the map itself comes from Cliopatria v0.12 (Seshat Global History Databank, CC-BY-4.0).

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