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Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (11 February 17769 October 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias ((ギリシア語:Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντώνιος Καποδίστριας) ''Komis Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias'';〔 (ロシア語:граф Иоанн Каподистрия) ''Graf Ioann Kapodistriya''; (イタリア語:Giovanni Antonio Capodistria) ''Conte Capo d'Istria''), was a Greek Foreign Minister of the Russian Empire and one of the most distinguished politicians and diplomats of Europe.〔〔〔〔 After a long career in European politics and diplomacy he was elected as the first head of state of independent Greece (1827–31) and he is considered as the founder of the modern Greek State,〔〔〔〔 and the founder of Greek independence.〔 ==Background and early career== Ioannis Kapodistrias was born in Corfu, the main of the Ionian Islands (then under Venetian rule) to a distinguished Corfiote family.〔 Kapodistrias' father was the nobleman, artist and politician Antonios Maria Kapodistrias (Αντώνιος Μαρία Καποδίστριας).〔〔 An ancestor of Kapodistrias' had been created a ''conte'' (count) by Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy, and the title was later (1679) inscribed in the ''Libro d'Oro'' of the Corfu nobility;〔 the title originates from ''Capodistria'',〔〔 a city on the eastern shore of the Gulf of Venice, now Koper in Slovenia and the place of origin of Kapodistrias' paternal family before they moved to Corfu in the 13th century where they changed their religion from Catholic to Orthodox and became hellenized.〔〔 His family's name in Capodistria was Vitori or Vittori.〔〔 His mother was Adamantine Gonemis (Αδαμαντία (Διαμαντίνα) Γονέμη, Diamantina Gonemi), a countess,〔 and daughter of the noble Christodoulos Gonemis (Χριστόδουλος Γονέμης).〔 The Gonemis were a Greek〔〔〔 family originally from the island of Cyprus,〔 they had migrated to Crete when Cyprus fell to the Ottomans in the 16th century.〔 They then migrated to Epirus when Crete fell in the 17th century, finally settling on the Ionian island of Corfu.〔 The Gonemis family, like the Kapodistrias, had been listed in the ''Libro d'Oro'' (Golden Book) of Corfu.〔〔 Kapodistrias, though born and raised as a nobleman,〔 was throughout his life a liberal thinker and had democratic ideals.〔 His ancestors fought along with the Venetians during the Turkish sieges of Corfu and had received a title of nobility from them.〔〔〔 Kapodistrias studied medicine, philosophy and law at Padua, in Italy. When he was 21 years old, in 1797, he started his medical practice as a doctor in his native island of Corfu.〔〔〔〔〔 In 1799, when Corfu was briefly occupied by the forces of Russia and Turkey, Kapodistrias was appointed chief medical director of the military hospital. In 1802 he founded an important scientific and social progress organisation in Corfu, the "National Medical Association", of which he was an energetic member. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ioannis Kapodistrias」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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