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.