Greek Federation

Statistics

Name - Γραικος Ομοσπονδία (Hellenic) / Φεdερατα Γρεκε (Albanian)

Continent - Europe

Capital - Athens

Administration

Head of state - Synedrion (collective)

Head of government - Grand Archon --------

Legislature - Vouli

President of the Vouli -

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

Geography

Area - 207,694 km^2

Largest cities

-Corfu - 546,000 (city), 3,514,000 (metro)

-Salonica [Thessaloniki]- 394,000 (city), 2,234,000 (metro)

-Chania - 223,000 (city), 431,000 (metro)

Currency - Greek livra

Demography

Language - Hellenic, Albanian

Other languages - Italian (in Corfu), Turkish (in Cyprus, Crete, Salonica), Judeo-Spanish (in Salonica)

Population - 12,724,000

Density - 61.26 /km^2

Symbols

National festival -

Anthem - θούριος (Thourios; Battle Hymn)

Motto -

Member states

Heptanesian Republic

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

-directorial government

-sees tussles between Greek and Italian groups

-after Russia's Wars > Russo-Turkish War (1826-34) a lot of Greeks flee into Heptanese

-Masonic revolutionary Greek nationalist groups operating from Heptanese

-turns into Mazzinian Young Greece movement

-Heptanesian Republic remains power center of Greece

-and today Corfu is largest city in Greece

Principality of Ioannina

-formed out of Janina Eyalet

-out of coalition of Muslim and Christian elites assembled as a diwan who invited French

-Muslim majority but not strongly so

-most Muslims are Albanians, so is a large section of Christians

-often known as Epirus

Principality of Morea

-got brutalized massively in Russia's Wars > Russo-Turkish War (1826-34) after Ypsilanti Revolt

-still has never recovered

Principality of Salonica

-formed after Russia's Wars > Russo-Turkish War (1826-34) with combination of notables

-eventually most of its Bulgarian minority forcibly assimilated

-in part helped by commerce, intermarriage, and Church

Senate and People of Roumeli
Duchy of Naxos
Chiot Republic
Principality of Crete
Principality of Samos
State of Athens
State of Karlieli
State of Rhodes
State of Thessaly

History

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

-during Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4), gathering of Albanian and Greek nobles call for Western aid

-with French having custody of Heptanese due to events, they call upon them

-western support for this in name of protecting area

-sees invasion by so-called "Young Greeks" from Heptanese and stuff

-results in French army being sent to assist local rebels and stuff

-establishment of a bunch of allied principalities and stuff

-soon afterwards Greek states federated