Name - Ελληνική Ομοσπονδία (Greek)

Continent - Europe

Capital - Athens

Head of state - Council of the Federation (collective)

Head of government - Grand Procurator of the Federation --------

Legislature - Congress

President of the Council -

Judiciary - Ephorate, High Tribunal of Cassation

President of the Ephorate -

President of the High Tribunal of Cassation -

Form of government - Federal republic under a democratic directorial confidential constitution

Form of law - Cambacérès Code

Area -

Largest city - Corfu - 546,000 (city), 4,214,000 (metro)

Currency - Greek drachma

Language - Greek, Italian (in Corfu)

Population -

Density -

-formed in 1828 from ruins of Venetian Republic out of Ionian Islands

-directorial government

-sees tussles between Greek and Italian groups

-Masonic revolutionary Greek nationalist groups operating from Heptanese

-Heptanesian Republic remains power center of Greece

-and today Corfu is largest city in Greece

[determine which ones incorporated later - early states principalities, later not]

-Heptanesian Republic created from Venetian Ionian Islands following French Wars > Second French War (1821-32)

-during Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4), Morea rebels against Muhtar Pasha of Yanina

-note that no rebel Souliotes, here they are loyal to Muhtar Pasha

-indeed, many more Albanians against Greek nationalism here

-western support for this in name of protecting area

-culminates with Naxos, Morea, Samos, Crete made semi-autonomous principalities with appointed princes

-soon afterwards Greek states federated