Provisional Municipality of Venice Municipalità Provvisoria di Venezia (Italian) | |||||||||||||
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| 1797–1798 | |||||||||||||
By decree of 18 May 1797, the Provisional Municipality adopted the "tricolor cockade green, white, and red"[1] | |||||||||||||
| Status | Client state ofFrance | ||||||||||||
| Capital | Venice | ||||||||||||
| Common languages | Venetian | ||||||||||||
| Government | Republic | ||||||||||||
| Historical era | French Revolutionary Wars | ||||||||||||
• Established | 16 May 1797 | ||||||||||||
• Austrian annexation | 18 January 1798 | ||||||||||||
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| Today part of | Italy Greece | ||||||||||||
TheProvisional Municipality of Venice (Italian:Municipalità Provvisoria di Venezia) was a provisionalrepublican regime set up by theFirst French Republic after theFall of the Republic of Venice and the occupation ofVenice itself by French troops on 16 May 1797. Its territory encompassed the parts ofVeneto that had belonged to the VenetianTerraferma. The Provisional Municipality lasted for the duration of the French occupation, until the arrival ofAustrian troops on 18 January 1798, in accordance with theTreaty of Campo Formio, and the annexation of the Veneto as theVenetian Province of the Habsburg empire.
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