Mer-Égée
French department in the Ionian Islands (1797-1802); today part of Greece / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mer-Égée (French: [mɛʁ eʒe]; French for "Aegean Sea") 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.
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Department of Mer-Égée Département de Mer-Égée | |||||||||||
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1797–1798 | |||||||||||
Status | Department of the French First Republic | ||||||||||
Chef-lieu | Zakynthos 37.78°N 20.89°E / 37.78; 20.89 | ||||||||||
Official languages | French | ||||||||||
Common languages | Greek | ||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||
• Commissioner | Chriseuil de Rulhière | ||||||||||
Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||||
18 October 1798 | |||||||||||
• Establishment | 7 November 1797 | ||||||||||
• Fall of Zakynthos | 25 October 1798 | ||||||||||
25 March 1802 | |||||||||||
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