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Department of Mer-Égée

Département de Mer-Égée

1797–1798

Flag

The three departments of Greece

Status

Department of the French First Republic

Chef-lieu

Zakynthos
37°47′N 20°53′E / 37.78°N 20.89°E

Official languages

French

Common languages

Greek

Government

• Commissioner

Chriseuil de Rulhière

Historical era

French Revolutionary Wars

• Treaty of Campo Formio

17 October 1797

• Establishment

7 November 1797

• Fall of Zakynthos

25 October 1798

• Official disbandment

25 March 1802

Preceded by

Succeeded by

Venetian rule in the Ionian Islands

Septinsular Republic
Pashalik of Yanina

Today part of

Greece

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.

History

The department included the islands of Zante (Zakynthos), Kythira and the Strofades, as well as Dragamesto (modern Astakos) on the Greek mainland. Despite its name, the department was mostly not in the Aegean, but the Ionian Sea, apart from Kythira and its dependencies.

Its prefecture was at the town of Zante (Zakynthos). The territories were lost to Russia in 1798 except Dragamesto that was captured by Ali Pasha, ruler of the Pashalik of Yanina, 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
18 October 1797^[1]	3 March 1799	Chriseuil Omer François de Rulhière

References

^ Bellaire, J.P. (1805). Précis des opérations générales de la division française du Levant. Magimel & Humbert. p. 11.

de Rulhière, Chriseuil (1800–1801). Essai sur les isles de Zante, de Cerigo, de Cérigotto et des Strophades, composant le département de la Mer-Égée [Essay on the islands of Zakynthos, of Kythira, of Antikythira and the Strofades, forming the department of Mer-Égée] (in French). Paris: Dessenne.
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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Kingdom of Spain	Bouches-de-l'Èbre Montserrat / Bouches-de-l'Èbre-Montserrat Sègre Ter / Sègre-Ter
Austrian Empire	Illyrian Provinces (autonomous departments)

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Administration

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See also

References