Illyrian Provinces
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It sits within the topics 1809 establishments in Europe, 1816 disestablishments in Europe and 19th century in Croatia.
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Key facts
- Status
- Autonomous Provinces of the French First Empire
- Capital
- Laibach (now Ljubljana , Slovenia ), Administrative capital , Segna (now Senj , Croatia ), Military capital
- Official languages
- French
- Demonym
- Illyrian
- 1809 1811
- Auguste de Marmont
- 1811 1812
- Henri Bertrand
- 1812 1813
- Jean-Andoche Junot
- 1813 1814
- Joseph Fouché
- Historical era
- Napoleonic Wars
- Treaty of sch nbrunn
- 14 October 1809
- Siege of ragusa
- 27 January 1814/1815
- Congress of vienna and formal annexation
- 9 June 1815
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1500000
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- inception
- 1809-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1816-01-01
- Commons category
- Illyrian Provinces
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Encyclopedic overview
The Illyrian Provinces were an autonomous province of France during the First French Empire that existed under Napoleonic Rule from 1809 to 1814. The province encompassed large parts of modern-day Croatia and Slovenia, stretching over smaller areas of Italy, Montenegro, and Austria. It maintained an administrative capital in Ljubljana and a military capital in Senj. It encompassed six departments, making it a relatively large portion of territorial France at the time. Adriatic Croatia was split up into two large regions: Civil Croatia and Military Croatia. The former served as a residential enclave and the latter as a military base to check the Ottoman Empire.
In 1809, Napoleon Bonaparte invaded the region with his Grande Armée after key wins during the War of the Fifth Coalition forced the Austrian Empire to cede parts of its territory. Integrating the land into France was Bonaparte's way of controlling Austria's access to the Mediterranean and Adriatic Sea and expanding his empire east. Bonaparte installed four governors to oversee French bureaucracy, culture, and language, the most influential of which was Auguste de Marmont. Marmont was succeeded by Henri Gatien Bertrand (1811–12), Jean-Andoche Junot (1812–13), and Joseph Fouché (1813–14).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Illyrian Provinces” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.