Septinsular Republic
| Septinsular Republic | ||||||||||
| Ἑπτάνησος Πολιτεία (el) Eptánisos Politía Repubblica Settinsulare (it) جزايير سبعه موجتمعه جومهورى (ota) |
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| Protectorate of Russia and Ottoman Empire1(1800-1807) Protectorate of the French Empire (1807-1815) |
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 The Republic's territory extended to the seven main islands plus the smaller islets of the Ionian Sea
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| Capital | Corfu (city) | |||||||||
| Languages | Official languages: Greek (from 1803) Italian Unofficial minority languages: Italkian, Venetian, Yevanic |
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| Religion |
Greek Orthodox Church (official) Roman Catholic Church (recognised) Judaism |
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| Government | republic | |||||||||
| Prince2 | ||||||||||
| • | 1800–02 (first) | Count Spiridion Georgio Teotochi | ||||||||
| Legislature | Parliament | |||||||||
| • | Upper house | Senate (Senato, Γερουσία) | ||||||||
| • | Lower house | Legislative Assembly (Corpo Legislativo, Νομοθετικό Σώμα) | ||||||||
| Historical era | 19th century | |||||||||
| • | Russian/Ottoman occupation | 1799 | ||||||||
| • | Established | April 2, 1800 | ||||||||
| • | 1st constitution | 1800 | ||||||||
| • | 2nd constitution | 23 December 1803 | ||||||||
| • | 3rd constitution | 1806 (not implemented) | ||||||||
| • | Ceded to France | 7 July 1807 | ||||||||
| • | Corfu occupied by Britain | 24 June 1814 | ||||||||
| • | British Protectorate | 5 November 1815 | ||||||||
| Currency | Septinsular gazeta | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 Greece3
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| 1: Formally under Ottoman suzerainty; under the de facto protection of the Russian Empire 2: According to the 1803 Constitution the President of the Senate gets the title of the Prince (Principo, Πρίγκηψ) and he is head of state. 3: Sazan Island (Saseno, Σάσων) is now a part of Albania. |
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The Septinsular Republic (Greek: Ἑπτάνησος Πολιτεία, Italian: Repubblica Settinsulare, Ottoman Turkish: جزاييرى صباى موجتميا جومهورو Cezayir-i Seb'a-i Müctemia Cumhuru) was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. It succeeded the previous French departments of Greece. It was the first time Greeks had been granted even limited self-government since the fall of the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in 1460. In 1807, the republic was ceded to Napoleon's First French Empire, but the islands were not annexed by France, keeping their institutions of government (known in French as République Septinsulaire or République des Sept-Îles). The British gradually took control of the islands, and following the Treaty of Paris, the islands were formally organised into the United States of the Ionian Islands under British protection.
The seven islands constituting the Republic were:
By the late 18th century, the Ionian Islands had been under Venetian authority for centuries. With the Treaty of Leoben (18 April 1797), the French Republic gained the islands, a move finalised with the 1797 Treaty of Campo Formio, which formally abolished the Venetian state.
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