RARE! 1877, Kingdom of Greece Ionian Islands, Kefalonia, Lixouri, Notarial Document

The United State of the Ionian Islands (Greek: Ἡνωμένον Κράτος τῶν Ἰονίων Νήσων,  ’United State of the Ionian Islands’; Italian: Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie) was a Greek state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. The successor state of the Septinsular Republic, it covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, as well as the town of Parga on the adjacent mainland in modern Greece. It was ceded by the British to Greece as a gift to the newly enthroned King George I, apart from Parga, which had been sold to Ali Pasha of Ioannina in 1819. Kephalonia, along with the other islands, were transferred to Greece in 1864 as a gesture of goodwill when the British-supported Prince William of Denmark became King George the First of the Hellenes.