Back ولايات الجزر الأيونية المتحدة Arabic Estaos Xuníos de les Islles Xóniques AST Злучаныя Штаты Іанічных Астравоў Byelorussian Йонийска република Bulgarian Ионийн республика CE Spojené státy Jónských ostrovů Czech De Joniske Øers Forenede Stater Danish Vereinigte Staaten der Ionischen Inseln German Ηνωμένον Κράτος των Ιονίων Νήσων Greek Estados Unidos de las Islas Jónicas Spanish

United States of the Ionian Islands

United States of the Ionian Islands
Ἡνωμένον Κράτος τῶν Ἰονίων Νήσων (Greek)
Inoménon-Krátos ton Ioníon Níson
Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie (Italian)
1815–1864
Coat of arms of Ionian Islands
Coat of arms
The Republic's territory extended to the seven main islands plus the smaller islets of the Ionian Sea
The Republic's territory extended to the seven main islands plus the smaller islets of the Ionian Sea
StatusAmical protectorate of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
CapitalCorfu
Official languages
Common languagesVenetian
Religion
Greek Orthodox
GovernmentFederal oligarchy
Monarch Protector 
• 1815–1820
George, Prince of Wales[a]
• 1820–1830
George IV
• 1830–1837
William IV
• 1837–1864
Victoria
Lord High Commissioner 
• 1816–1824
Sir Thomas Maitland (first)
• 1859–1864
Sir Henry Knight Storks (last)
President of the Senate 
LegislatureParliament
• Upper house
Senate (executive)b
• Lower house
Legislative Assembly
Historical era19th century
• Congress of Vienna
9 June 1815 (signed)
• Protectorate established
9 November 1815
• Constitution
26 August 1817
• Resolution for union with Greece
26 November 1850
29 March 1864
• Union with Greece
28 May 1864
Area
1864[1]4,696 km2 (1,813 sq mi)
Population
• 1864[1]
236,000
CurrencyObol (1818–1864)
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
French rule in the Ionian Islands
Kingdom of Greece
Ioannina Eyalet
Today part of Greece
^ Italian was used as the official language of administration during the first Parliament only.

^ The Senate is listed in the Constitution as the Executive branch of government. It shared legislative power with the Legislative Assembly, and in some British sources it appears as the Executive Council.[2][3]

References: Capital city;[4] languages.[5][6]

The United States of the Ionian Islands[b] was a Greek state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. The successor state of the Septinsular Republic, it covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, as well as the town of Parga on the adjacent mainland in modern Greece. It was ceded by the British to Greece as a gift to the newly enthroned King George I,[7] apart from Parga, which had been sold to Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1819.[8]


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  1. ^ a b "Treaty of London". Greek Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 8 March 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2006. The Ionian Islands were formally united with the Kingdom of Greece on 2 June 1864. This was the first expansion of the Greek kingdom since its foundation. The national territory increased by 1,813 square miles and the population by 236,000.
  2. ^ Fieldhouse, David (1985). Select Documents on the Constitutional History of the British Empire and Commonwealth: "The Empire of the Bretaignes," 1175–1688. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 679. ISBN 9780313238970.
  3. ^ Fitzroy, Charles (1850). Ionian Islands. Letters by Lord C. Fitzroy and documents from other sources, on past and recent events in the Ionian Islands; shewing the anomalous political and financial condition of those States. p. 115.
  4. ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article II
  5. ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article IV
  6. ^ Constitution of the Ionian Islands, Article V
  7. ^ The Times (London) 8 June 1863 p. 12 col. C
  8. ^ "::[ History of Parga | Prefecture of Preveza ]::".

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