{"slug": "ionian-islands", "label": "Ionian Islands", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionian_Islands", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170295", "qid": "Q170295", "description": "group of islands in the Ionian Sea", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [880, 1953], "span_label": ["880 CE", "1953 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cephalonia", "label": "Cephalonia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "corfu", "label": "Corfu", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aghlabids", "label": "Aghlabids", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basil-i", "label": "Basil I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaloniki", "label": "Thessaloniki", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "empire-of-nicaea", "label": "Empire of Nicaea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "durres", "label": "Durrës", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "despotate-of-epirus", "label": "Despotate of Epirus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedonia-greece", "label": "Macedonia (Greece)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "robert-guiscard", "label": "Robert Guiscard", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 880, "year_label": "880 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cephalonia: A Byzantine fleet, under Admiral Nasar, is sent by Emperor Basil I to the Ionian Islands. Nasar defeats the Aghlabids in a night battle near Cephalonia (modern Greece).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372561483#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "880", "revid": 1372561483, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1085, "year_label": "1085 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Robert Guiscard heads for the Ionian Islands despite an epidemic among troops on Corfu. His son, Roger Borsa, lands on Cephalonia but Guiscard falls sick as his ship approaches the northernmost headland and is carried ashore, where he dies of fever (on July 17).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362159073#Europe", "title": "1085", "revid": 1362159073, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Epirote–Nicaean conflict (1257–59) begins between the Despotate of Epirus and the Empire of Nicaea. Despot Michael II Komnenos Doukas revolts and defeats the Nicaean army under George Akropolites. The Epirote and Serbian forces join their attacks against Michael, who sends his forces into Macedonia and marches on to Thessalonica. In response, Michael is attacked – on the west coast of Epirus – by Manfred of Sicily. Manfred first occupies the major Ionian Islands, including Corfu. Then he lands on the Albanian coast and takes Durazzo, Berat, Valona and their environs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Europe", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Count Charles of Valois founds the Diocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia with its seat in Corfu. It is, comprising the Ionian Islands of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#Europe", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1815, "year_label": "1815 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – The Ionian Islands become a British protectorate, the United States of the Ionian Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587765#November", "title": "1815", "revid": 1365587765, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The 1953 Ionian earthquake of magnitude 7.2 totally devastates Cephalonia and most of the other Ionian Islands, in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#August", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › August"}}]}