Capitulum XVI: Italian Islands of the Aegean
Capitulum XVI: Italian Islands of the Aegean
The Italian Islands of the Aegean (Italian: Isole italiane dell'Egeo; Greek: Ἰταλικαὶ Νῆσοι Αἰγαίου Πελάγους) are a group of 32 major islands (the biggest being Euboea, now Negroponte, the Sporades, the Cyclades and the Saronic Islands) in the Aegean Sea, that — together with the surrounding islets — were ruled by the Kingdom of Sardinia (later on the Kingdom of Italy) from 1847.
Administration of the islands was far from easy, compared to Morocco which, although having problems with the native population, was at least easy to colonize once pacified. On March 31 1850, for example, a typhus epidemic swept the island of Negroponte, in a period nicknamed the plague of Negroponte. Government actions were immediate and ordered a quarantene of the island.
It didn't help the fact that nationalism in the area was strong. On May 29 1850 a Greek nationalist attempted to kill the islands governor Raffaele Rubattino, with no success. He was captured and sent into the newlyfunded prison of Makronisos, in the island of the same name. It did not help that on July 17 1853 and July 02 1854 an anonymous Greek poet begun writing several nationalistic articles and poems, which became popular in the islands. Fearing a possible rebellion, the Sardinian government decided to not intervene, as long as the author didn't write anything that could cause an uprising.
Starting in 1850, civil governors replaced the military commanders. The Italian politics towards the native population was mostly pacific compared to the harsh treatment of the Moroccans. Rubattino delegated land for Sardinian settlers and encouraged intermarriage with local Greeks. In 1856, scholarships at the University of Sassari for Aegean students were promoted to disseminate Sardinian culture and language among the local professional class. Some years before, on October 01 1851, it was decided that streets had to bear Greek language, in favor of the local population.
The only sector where Rubattino was unaccommodating was religion: The Sardinian authorities also tried to limit the power of the Greek Orthodox Church without success by trying to set up an autonomous Aegean church. The Italianization of names was encouraged by the Sardinian authorities. The juridic state of the islands was an intermediate one (possedimento) between a colony and a part of the motherland: due to that, local islanders did not receive full citizenship and were not required to serve in the Sardinian armed forces.
Greek ruins discovered during Sardinian occupation
Efforts to bring Sardinian settlers to the islands were not notably successful at first. By 1863, Sardinians in the Aegean numbered 16,711, most of them living on Negroponte and Naxos. Sardinians of Negroponte and Naxos were farmers involved in setting up new agricultural settlements, while Sardinians of the remaining islands were either fishermen or sailors. Major Sardinian archaeological efforts from the 1860s onward were intended to discover Roman antiquities and thus strengthen the Sardinian claim on the islands. A series of massive public works in the archipelago were undertaken. New roads, monumental buildings and waterworks were constructed, sometimes using forced Greek labor.
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The Italian Islands of the Aegean (Italian: Isole italiane dell'Egeo; Greek: Ἰταλικαὶ Νῆσοι Αἰγαίου Πελάγους) are a group of 32 major islands (the biggest being Euboea, now Negroponte, the Sporades, the Cyclades and the Saronic Islands) in the Aegean Sea, that — together with the surrounding islets — were ruled by the Kingdom of Sardinia (later on the Kingdom of Italy) from 1847.
Administration of the islands was far from easy, compared to Morocco which, although having problems with the native population, was at least easy to colonize once pacified. On March 31 1850, for example, a typhus epidemic swept the island of Negroponte, in a period nicknamed the plague of Negroponte. Government actions were immediate and ordered a quarantene of the island.
It didn't help the fact that nationalism in the area was strong. On May 29 1850 a Greek nationalist attempted to kill the islands governor Raffaele Rubattino, with no success. He was captured and sent into the newlyfunded prison of Makronisos, in the island of the same name. It did not help that on July 17 1853 and July 02 1854 an anonymous Greek poet begun writing several nationalistic articles and poems, which became popular in the islands. Fearing a possible rebellion, the Sardinian government decided to not intervene, as long as the author didn't write anything that could cause an uprising.
Starting in 1850, civil governors replaced the military commanders. The Italian politics towards the native population was mostly pacific compared to the harsh treatment of the Moroccans. Rubattino delegated land for Sardinian settlers and encouraged intermarriage with local Greeks. In 1856, scholarships at the University of Sassari for Aegean students were promoted to disseminate Sardinian culture and language among the local professional class. Some years before, on October 01 1851, it was decided that streets had to bear Greek language, in favor of the local population.
The only sector where Rubattino was unaccommodating was religion: The Sardinian authorities also tried to limit the power of the Greek Orthodox Church without success by trying to set up an autonomous Aegean church. The Italianization of names was encouraged by the Sardinian authorities. The juridic state of the islands was an intermediate one (possedimento) between a colony and a part of the motherland: due to that, local islanders did not receive full citizenship and were not required to serve in the Sardinian armed forces.
Greek ruins discovered during Sardinian occupation
Efforts to bring Sardinian settlers to the islands were not notably successful at first. By 1863, Sardinians in the Aegean numbered 16,711, most of them living on Negroponte and Naxos. Sardinians of Negroponte and Naxos were farmers involved in setting up new agricultural settlements, while Sardinians of the remaining islands were either fishermen or sailors. Major Sardinian archaeological efforts from the 1860s onward were intended to discover Roman antiquities and thus strengthen the Sardinian claim on the islands. A series of massive public works in the archipelago were undertaken. New roads, monumental buildings and waterworks were constructed, sometimes using forced Greek labor.
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