Senate of Western Continental Greece explained

Native Name:Δυτική Χέρσος Ελλάς
Conventional Long Name:Western Continental Greece
Common Name:Western Greece
Status:Provisional
Status Text:Regional government in revolt against the Ottoman Empire
Government Type:Republic
Year Start:1821
Date Start:9 November
Year End:1823
Date End:30 March
P1:Karli-Eli
Flag P1:Flag of the Ottoman Empire.svg
S1:First Hellenic Republic
Flag S1:Flag_of_Greece_(1828-1978).svg
Coa Size:250px
Legislature:Senate
Capital:Missolonghi
Common Languages:Greek
Religion:Greek Orthodox
Leader1:Alexandros Mavrokordatos

The Senate of Western Continental Greece (Greek, Modern (1453-);: Γερουσία της Δυτικής Χέρσου Ελλάδος) was a provisional regime that existed in western Central Greece during the early stages of the Greek War of Independence.

History

The western part of Central Greece had rebelled against Ottoman rule in spring 1821, along with the rest of southern Greece. In order to organize the administration of the region, an assembly was to be convened at Vrachori on 1 October, but it was eventually postponed for 4–9 November 1821, at Missolonghi. The assembly included 30 representatives from the region and voted for the creation of a constitutional charter (Οργανισμός Δυτικής Χέρσου Ελλάδος) that provided for the creation of a ten-member Senate to administer the affairs of the region until such time as a centralized administration for the entire nation was established, with the Phanariot Alexandros Mavrokordatos, who presided over the assembly and had drafted most of the charter, elected as its president.

The charter of Western Greece was the first of the Greek local statutes, followed by the Legal Order of Eastern Continental Greece on 15 November and the charter of the Peloponnesian Senate on 15 December. The Senate was dissolved at the Second National Assembly at Astros in March 1823.