Provisional Municipality of Venice

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.

Provisional Municipality of Venice Municipalità Provvisoria di Venezia (Italian)
1797–1798
By decree of 18 May 1797, the Provisional Municipality adopted the "tricolor cockade green, white, and red"
Status	Client state of France
Capital	Venice
Common languages	Italian
Government	Republic
Historical era	French Revolutionary Wars
• Established	16 May 1797
• Austrian annexation	18 January 1798
Preceded by Succeeded by Republic of Venice Venetian Province Cisalpine Republic French departments of Greece
Today part of	Italy Greece

Sources

• Panciera, Walter (2021). The Republic of Venice in the 18th Century. Translated by Kalina Yamboliev. Viella Libreria Editrice. ISBN 978-88-3313-757-5.
• Romano, Dennis (2024). Venice: The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19085998-5.
• Scarabello, Giovanni (1998). "La municipalità democratica". Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima. Vol. VIII, L'ultima fase della Serenissima (in Italian). Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. pp. 263–355.