Provisional Municipality of Venice

Provisional Municipality of Venice
Municipalità Provvisoria di Venezia (Italian)
1797–1798
By decree of 18 May 1797, the Provisional Municipality adopted the "tricolor cockade green, white, and red"[1] of Venice
By decree of 18 May 1797, the Provisional Municipality adopted the "tricolor cockade green, white, and red"[1]
StatusClient state of France
CapitalVenice
Common languagesItalian
GovernmentRepublic
Historical eraFrench Revolutionary Wars
• Established
16 May 1797
• Austrian annexation
18 January 1798
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Republic of Venice
Venetian Province
Cisalpine Republic
French departments of Greece
Today part ofItaly
Greece

The Provisional Municipality of Venice (Italian: Municipalità Provvisoria di Venezia) was a provisional republican regime set up by the First French Republic after the Fall of the Republic of Venice and the occupation of Venice itself by French troops on 16 May 1797. Its territory encompassed the parts of Veneto that had belonged to the Venetian Terraferma. The Provisional Municipality lasted for the duration of the French occupation, until the arrival of Austrian troops on 18 January 1798, in accordance with the Treaty of Campo Formio, and the annexation of the Veneto as the Venetian Province of the Habsburg empire.

References

  1. ^ Raccolta di Carte pubbliche, istruzioni, legislazioni ec. ec. ec. del nuovo Veneto Governo Democratico. Vol. I. Venice: Silvestro Gatti. 1797. pp. xxvii–xxviii.

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