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General Newspaper of Greece, sheet 39, p. 1 (9 April 1827)
Ioannis Kapodistrias is voted as Governor of Greece by the 3rd National Assembly Library of the Hellenic Parliament
THE ΓΕΝΙΚΉ ΕΦΉΜΕΡΙΣ ΤΉΣ ΕΛ- ΛΆΔΟΣ / GENERAL NEWSPAPER OF GREECE (issue of the 9th April 1827) publishes the Proclamation of the Third National Assembly about the election of Ioannis Kapodistrias as Gov- ernor of Greece for a seven-year term. Count Kap- odistrias is characterized as a politician «in action and in theory, about the virtues of whom Greece can
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justifiably boast, and from whom it can confidently expect its salvation and prosperity».
The National Assembly also appointed Richard Church to the position of commander-in-chief and Thomas Cochrane to the position of the chief of Navy, while a three-member Vice-Government Committee was also elected, in order to undertake the government of the country until the arrival of Kapodistrias.
Letter of Prince Leopold de Saxe-Coburg to Governor Ioannis Kapodistrias about the reasons of his refusal to accept the Greek throne (London, 1st June 1830)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 25, no 10 Library of the Hellenic Parliament
BY SIGNING THE PROTOCOL OF LONDON on 22 January/3 February 1830, the Great Powers recognize, officially too, the indepen- dence of Greece, defining at the same time the borders of the new Greek state and proclaiming Leopold de Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld, duke of Saxony, as ruler of the Greek Kingdom. Leopold was chosen because, on one hand, he had fought in the service of the Tsar of Russia and, on the other hand, he had kinship relations with the royal family of France – hence, on a diplomatic level, he could operate as a unifying agent between the «protective» powers. Initially Leopold accepted the throne of Greece on the 23rd February. Because though, as he describes in his letter to Ioan. Kapodistrias, his interventions were not respected, regarding, among other things, a more favourable for the Greeks «demarcation», namely definition of the borders, he submits his resignation on the 1st June 1830, convinced «that faithfully and with clear conscience I defended the interests of Greece».
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