Ionian islands

The Ionian islands (in Greek Ιόνια νησιά ) is an archipelago of the Ionian Mer located at the North-West of the Peloponnese, the west of the Macedonia and the south-west of the Albania. They are a Greek territory today.

The islands Ioniennes are made up of seven principal islands close to the Western coasts of the Greece.

The vegetation is abundant with forests thanks to a soft and relatively wet climate.

The Ionian Islands are a administrative area (or periphery) of Greece. It gathers six of the principal islands of the archipelago which gives him its name, the six which is at broad Western coast of the country: Corfou, Paxos, Ithaque, Céphalonie, Leucade and Zante. The island of Cythère, located at the south of the Peloponnese, is attached to the periphery of the Attique.

History

Ancient Greece

According to the Odyssey of Homère, Ulysses was king of Ithaque.

In -31, the took place battles naval of Actium close to the island of Leucade.

Modern Greece: the Republic of the Seven-Islands

See also: Republic of the Seven-Islands

April 2nd 1800 with the July 20th 1807, the Ionian islands, an old Venetian dependence which had just been successively occupied by the revolutionary France and by the forces Russo - Othoman, become a protectorate Russo-Othoman under the name of “State heptanésien” (of the Seven Islands). In 1807, Russia yields the islands to France, which them appendix.

Occupied by the British as of 1809, the Ionian Islands are allotted to the the United Kingdom (formally, with the victorious Powers of Napoleon) in the form of a protectorate by the treated of Paris the November 5th 1815.

The British name off protectorate “the United States d' Ionie” ( United States Ionia ) and allot a Constitution to him. One knows also this Microphone-State under the name of République of the Seven-Islands. The Ioniennes islands laid out of a Senate of 1799 with 1864. They are reassigned with the Greece the May 21st 1864 and are annexed the June 2nd.

In 1941 - 43 there was a Italian Occupation , followed by a German occupation , during which the Jewish population is off-set and destroyed, then the islands return to Greece.

List of the seven principal islands (“Seven Islands”) of North in the South

See too

External bonds

  • Images of the Ionian islands

  • (in) and (el) Area of the Ionian islands

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