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Corcyre was one of three short-lived French départements in present
GreeceGreece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
. It came into existence after Napoleon's conquest in 1797 of the
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, when Venetian possessions such as the
Ionian islandsThe Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called the Heptanese, i.e...
fell to the
French DirectoryThe Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate...
. It consisted of the island of Kerkyra (
CorfuCorfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the edge of the northwestern frontier of Greece. The island is part of the Corfu regional unit, and is administered as a single municipality. The...
), and its prefecture was in the
city known by the same namesCorfu is a city and a former municipality on the island of Corfu, Ionian Islands, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it is part of the municipality Corfu, of which it is a municipal unit. It is the capital of the island and of the Corfu regional unit. The city also serves as a capital...
. The island was lost to
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after the and the département was officially disbanded in 1802. During the renewed French control of the former
Septinsular RepublicThe Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. 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 the...
in 1807-1814, the département was not re-established, the constitutional form of the
republicThe Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. 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 the...
being kept.