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John Capodistria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (in Greek Ιωάννης Καποδίστριας - Ioannis Kapodistrias, in Italian Giovanni Capo d'Istria, Conte Capo d'Istria, and in Russian граф Иоанн Каподистрия - Graf Ioann Kapodistriya) (February 11, 1776 – October 9, 1831) was a Greek-born diplomat of the Russian Empire and later first head of state of independent Greece. |
| | Ioannis Capodistrias was born in Corfu, (Κέρκυρα (Kerkyra) in Greek), one of the Ionian Islands, which at the time of his birth were a possession of Venice. |
| | In 1802 Ioannis Capodistria founded an important scientific and social progress organisation in Corfu, the "National Medical Association", of which he was an energetic member. |
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