Back ولايات الجزر الأيونية المتحدة Arabic Estaos Xuníos de les Islles Xóniques AST Злучаныя Штаты Іанічных Астравоў Byelorussian Йонийска република Bulgarian Ионийн республика CE Spojené státy Jónských ostrovů Czech De Joniske Øers Forenede Stater Danish Vereinigte Staaten der Ionischen Inseln German Ηνωμένον Κράτος των Ιονίων Νήσων Greek Estados Unidos de las Islas Jónicas Spanish
United States of the Ionian Islands Ηνωμένον Κράτος των Ιονίων Νήσων (Greek) Inoménon-Krátos ton Ioníon Níson Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie (Italian) | |||||||||||
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| 1815–1864 | |||||||||||
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 The Republic's territory extended to the seven main islands plus the smaller islets of the Ionian Sea | |||||||||||
| Status | Amical protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ||||||||||
| Capital | Corfu | ||||||||||
| Official languages | |||||||||||
| Common languages | Venetian | ||||||||||
| Religion | Greek Orthodox | ||||||||||
| Government | Federal republic | ||||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | ||||||||||
| Senate (executive)b | |||||||||||
| Legislative Assembly | |||||||||||
| Historical era | 19th century | ||||||||||
• Congress of Vienna | 9 June 1815 (signed) | ||||||||||
• Protectorate established | 9 November 1815 | ||||||||||
• Constitution | 26 August 1817 | ||||||||||
• Resolution for union with Greece | 26 November 1850 | ||||||||||
| 29 March 1864 | |||||||||||
• Union with Greece | 28 May 1864 | ||||||||||
| Area | |||||||||||
| 1864[1] | 4,696 km2 (1,813 sq mi) | ||||||||||
| Population | |||||||||||
• 1864[1] | 236,000 | ||||||||||
| Currency | Obol (1818–1864) | ||||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||||
^ Italian was used as the official language of administration during the first Parliament only.
^ The Senate is listed in the Constitution as the Executive branch of government. It shared legislative power with the Legislative Assembly, and in some British sources it appears as the Executive Council.[2][3] References: Capital city;[4] languages.[5][6] | |||||||||||
The United States of the Ionian Islands (Greek: Ἡνωμένον Κράτος τῶν Ἰονίων Νήσων, romanized: Inoménon-Krátos ton Ioníon Níson, lit. 'United State of the Ionian Islands'; Italian: Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie) was a Greek state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. The successor state of the Septinsular Republic, it covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, as well as the town of Parga on the adjacent mainland in modern Greece. 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]
- ^ a b "Treaty of London". Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 8 March 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2006.
The Ionian Islands were formally united with the Kingdom of Greece on 2 June 1864. This was the first expansion of the Greek kingdom since its foundation. The national territory increased by 1,813 square miles and the population by 236,000.
- ^ Fieldhouse, David (1985). Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth: "The Empire of the Bretaignes," 1175–1688. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 679. ISBN 9780313238970.
- ^ Fitzroy, Charles (1850). Ionian Islands. Letters by Lord C. Fitzroy and documents from other sources, on past and recent events in the Ionian Islands; shewing the anomalous political and financial condition of those States. p. 115.
- ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article II
- ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article IV
- ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article V
- ^ The Times (London) 8 June 1863 p. 12 col. C
- ^ "::[ History of Parga | Prefecture of Preveza ]::".
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