Kingdom of the Morea
The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea (Italian: Regno di Morea) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War in 1684–99. The Venetians tried, with considerable success, to repopulate the country and reinvigorate its agriculture and economy, but were unable to gain the allegiance of the bulk of the population, nor to secure their new possession militarily. As a result, it was lost again to the Ottomans in a brief campaign in June–September 1715.
| Kingdom of the Morea Regno di Morea | |||||||||
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| Colony of the Republic of Venice | |||||||||
| 1688–1715 | |||||||||
Coat of arms of the Regno di Morea
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Peloponnesus, Presently the Kingdom of the Morea, by Frederik de Wit, 1688 | |||||||||
| Capital | Nauplia | ||||||||
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| • Type | Colony | ||||||||
| Provveditore Generale di Morea | |||||||||
• 1688–1690 | Giacomo Corner | ||||||||
• 1714–1715 | Alessandro Bon | ||||||||
| Historical era | Early Modern | ||||||||
• Venetian conquest | 1685–1687 | ||||||||
• Established | 1688 | ||||||||
• Ottoman reconquest | 1715 | ||||||||
• Treaty of Passarowitz | 1718 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Greece | ||||||||
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