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- Title
War at sea and trade routes in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic period through the reports of the Septinsular Republic's diplomatic representations.
- Authors
Pagratis, Gerassimos D.
- Abstract
In 1800, while the Napoleonic Wars raged, in the former Venetian Ionian islands was founded the state of the Septinsular Republic, which came under the protection of Russia and the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire in which the new State was tributary. Soon the administration of the islands has launched a dense consular network. Main activity of the Ionian consuls was the service of merchants and shipping entrepreneurs, but also all of those Ionians travelling for various reasons abroad. One of the activities of the consuls was however information of Ionian authorities on various developments of military and political level happening in the Italian peninsula and the Eastern Mediterranean in a period full of decisive military facts, in which played a dominant role the conflict between Napoleon Bonaparte and the British Empire. The main aim of the proposed paper is the presentation of this corpus of documentation and its evaluation in relation to both the general accepted historical facts and the sources of such information. War at sea and trade routes in the Mediterranean during the Napoleonic period.
- Subjects
IONIAN Islands (Greece); TRADE routes; DIPLOMATIC protests; INTERNATIONAL trade disputes; ROLE conflict; NAPOLEON I, Emperor of the French, 1769-1821; BRITISH colonies; ITALIAN history; HISTORICAL source material
- Publication
Mediterranean Chronicle, 2018, Vol 8, p67
- ISSN
1791-9266
- Publication type
Article