"Which is the largest of the Ionian Islands, it is also the setting for the Louis De Bernieres novel ""Captain Correlli's mandolin?"
Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Captain Corelli's Mandolin (film) Captain Corelli's Mandolin is a 2001 war film directed by John Madden. It is based on the novel "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" by Louis de Bernières. The film pays homage to the thousands of Italian soldiers executed at the Massacre of the Acqui Division by German forces in Cephalonia in September 1943, and to the people of Cephalonia who were killed in the post-war earthquake. The novel's protagonists are portrayed by actors Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz. Greece's Ionian Islands are occupied by the Italian Army when it brings a large garrison along with a few Germans
United States of the Ionian Islands United States of the Ionian Islands The United States of the Ionian Islands (, literally "United State of the Ionian Islands"; ) was a state and amical protectorate of the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1864. It was the successor state of the Septinsular Republic. It covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, in modern Greece, and it was ceded to Greece as a gift of the United Kingdom to the newly enthroned King George I after the Resolution for union with Greece which was proposed by the Party of the Radicals. Before the French Revolutionary Wars, the Ionian Islands