The United States of the Ionian Islands

After the fall of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Ionian islands, which for centuries governed by the Venetians, and latterly the Turks and the French Empire, became a British Protectorate, named the United States of the Ionian Islands. They remained in British hands until 1864, when as a gesture of goodwill they were given to the newly independent Kingdom of Greece.

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