Party Of Radicals (Ionian Islands)

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The Party of Radicals ( el, Κόμμα των Ριζοσπαστών), was a

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active in the

United States of the Ionian Islands The United States of the Ionian Islands ( el, Ἡνωμένον Κράτος τῶν Ἰονίων Νήσων, Inoménon-Krátos ton Ioníon Níson, United State of the Ionian Islands; it, Stati Uniti delle Isole Ionie) was a Greek state and a ...

. It was founded in 1848 and dissolved immediately after the union of the Ionian Islands with the

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in 1864. The political goals of the party were solely ''

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'' (union) with Greece. On 26 November 1850, the Radical MP John Detoratos Typaldos proposed in the Ionian parliament the resolution for the enosis of the Ionian Islands with Greece which was signed by Gerasimos Livadas, Nadalis Domeneginis, George Typaldos, Frangiskos Domeneginis, Ilias Zervos Iakovatos, Iosif Momferatos, Telemachus Paizis, Ioannis Typaldos, Aggelos Sigouros-Dessyllas, Christodoulos Tofanis. In 1862, the party split into two factions, the "United Radical Party" and the "Real Radical Party". During the period of British rule,

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visited the islands and recommended their reunion with Greece, to the chagrin of the

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. In 1862, the party was split into two factions, the United Radical Party and the Real Radical Party. Political parties established in 1848 Defunct political parties in Greece United States of the Ionian Islands 1848 establishments in the British Empire {{Greece-hist-stub