Provisional Municipality of Venice explained

Conventional Long Name:Provisional Municipality of Venice
Common Name:Venice
Common Languages:Italian
Era:French Revolutionary Wars
Status:Sister Republic
Empire:the First French Republic
Status Text:Client state of France
Government Type:Republic
Year Start:1797
Date Start:16 May
Year End:1798
Date End:18 January
Event End:Austrian annexation
P1:Republic of Venice
Flag P1:Variant flag of the Serene Republic of Venice.svg
S1:Habsburg monarchy
Flag S1:Flag of the Habsburg Monarchy.svg
S2:Venetian Province∟Venetian Province
S3:French rule in the Ionian Islands (1797–1799)June 1797:
French departments of Greece
Flag S3:Flag of France.svg
Capital:Venice
Today:Italy

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.

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