Ithaque
Department of Ithaque Département d'Ithaque | |||||||||
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| 1797–1802 | |||||||||
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 The three departments of Greece | |||||||||
| Status | Department of the French First Republic | ||||||||
| Chef-lieu | Argostoli 38°10′N 20°29′E / 38.17°N 20.49°E | ||||||||
| Official languages | French | ||||||||
| Common languages | Greek | ||||||||
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• Commissioner | Pierre-Pomponne-Amédée Pocholle | ||||||||
| Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||
| 18 October 1797 | |||||||||
• Fall of Ithaque | 25 October 1798 | ||||||||
• De facto end of the department | 3 March 1799 | ||||||||
• De jure end of the department | 25 March 1802 | ||||||||
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Ithaque ([i.tak]; French for Ithaca) was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece. It came into existence after Napoleon's conquest in 1797 of the Republic of Venice, when Venetian Greek possessions such as the Ionian islands fell to the French Directory. It included the islands of Ithaca, Kefalonia and Lefkada, as well as the cities of Preveza and Vonitsa on the adjacent mainland. Its prefecture was at Argostoli. The islands were lost to Russia in 1798 and the department was officially disbanded in 1802.
During the renewed French control of the area in 1807–1809, the department was not re-established, the constitutional form of the Septinsular Republic being kept.
Administration[]
Commissioner[]
The Commissioner of the Directory was the highest state representative in the department.
| Term start | Term end | Office holder |
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| 18 October 1797[1] | 3 March 1799 | Pierre-Pomponne-Amédée Pocholle |
See also[]
- Department of Mer-Égée
- Department of Corcyre
- French rule in the Ionian Islands (1797–1799)
- Treaty of Campo Formio
References[]
- ^ Bellaire, J.P. (1805). Précis des opérations générales de la division française du Levant. Magimel & Humbert. p. 10.
département d'ithaque.
- Lacroix, Louis (1853). Les Îles de la Grèce [The Islands of Greece] (in French). Firmin Didot. p. 638.
- Pauthier, G. (1863). Les Îles Ioniennes pendant l'occupation française et le protectorat anglais [The Ionian Islands during the French occupation and the British protectorate] (in French). Paris: Benjamin Duprat.
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- Former departments of France in Greece
- States and territories established in 1797
- History of Cephalonia
- Ithaca
- Lefkada
- 1797 establishments in France