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1796 saw two great empires in the Balkans: To the north was the Austrian Empire and to the south the Ottoman Empire. Italy was a fractured peninsula of city states including a few of which are shown on the map:
Napoleon conquered much of Italy and parts of the Republic of Venice. The Septinsular Republic (Greek: Επτάνησος Πολιτεία, Italian: Repubblica Settinsulare) 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 mid-15th century.
In secret articles of the 1807 Treaty of Tilsit, the Septinsular Republic was ceded by Russia to Napoleon's French Empire, and incorporated in the Illyrian provinces.
Napoleon conquered much of Italy and parts of the Republic of Venice. In 1806, the Republic of Ragusa surrendered to forces of the Empire of France to end a months-long siege by the Russian fleets (during which 3,000 cannonballs fell on the city). The French lifted the siege and saved Ragusa. The French army, led by Napoleon, entered Dubrovnik in 1806. In 1808, Marshal Marmont abolished the Republic of Ragusa and amalgamated its territory into the French en:Illyrian Provinces, himself becoming the Rector of Ragusa.
The United States of the Ionian Islands (Template:Lang-el, Template:Lang-it) was a former state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. It is located in modern Greece, to whom it was ceded as a gift at the end of the protectorate.
