Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias, sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias, was a Greek statesman who was one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of 19th-century Europe.
Portrait by Dionysios Tsokos
Kapodistrias family home in Corfu. The plaque between the two windows to the left of the entrance mentions he was born there.
Statue of Ioannis Kapodistrias (by Georgios Bonanos) in Panepistimiou street, in front of the National and Kapodistrian University, Athens.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence
The Septinsular Republic was an oligarchic republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Russian and Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands.
The Republic's territory extended to the seven main islands plus the smaller islets of the Ionian Sea
Ioannis Kapodistrias in 1818
Antonios Komoutos, President of the Ionian Senate and head of state of the Septinsular Republic in 1803
A Souliote warrior in Corfu, with the New Fortress in the background