Kingdom of the Morea
| Kingdom of the Morea Regno di Morea |
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| Colony of the Republic of Venice | |||||
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| Capital | Nauplio (Napoli di Romania) | ||||
| Government | Colony | ||||
| Provveditore Generale di Morea | |||||
| • | 1688–1690 | Giacomo Corner (first) | |||
| • | 1714–1715 | Alessandro Bon (last) | |||
| Historical era | Early Modern | ||||
| • | Venetian conquest | 1685–1687 | |||
| • | Established | 1688 | |||
| • | Ottoman reconquest | 1715 | |||
| • | Treaty of Passarowitz | 1718 | |||
The Kingdom of the Morea (Italian: Regno di Morea) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War in 1684–99. The Venetians tried, with considerable success, to repopulate the country and reinvigorate its agriculture and economy, but were unable to gain the allegiance of the bulk of the population, nor to secure their new possession militarily. As a result, it was lost again to the Ottomans in a brief campaign in June–September 1715.
Venice had a long history of interaction with the Morea, dating back to the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1203–1204), when the Republic acquired control of the coastal fortresses of Modon and Coron, Nauplio and Argos. These they held even after the remainder of the peninsula was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1460, but they were lost in the first, second and third Ottoman–Venetian Wars. In successive conflicts, the Ottomans pried away the other remaining Venetian overseas possessions, including Cyprus and Crete, the latter after a prolonged struggle that ended in 1669.
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