The island of Samos (T.: Sisam Atasi) became part of the Osmanli Empire in 1475.
For most of the time it was part of the Sandjak of Rodos of the Elayet/Vilayet of
the Djeza'ir-i Bahr-i Sefid, but later it beeame a separate Sandjak. (1)
In 1821 the Greek inhabitants of the island revolted and established a de facto
independent administration.
Despite this, Samos wasn't included into the new independent Greek state created in
1830 and unrest continued until 1832 when, following the intervention of the Great
Powers, the islannd was reorganized as an autonomous and tributary principality of
the Osmanli Empire under the garanty of France, Russia and the U.K.
In 1912 partizans of the union with Greece revolted and established a provisional
government. SOOn afterwards the island was occupied by Greek troops and in 1913, by
the Treaty of London, it was formally ceded to Greece.
(1) It was still listed as such in 1867, but afterwards it's unclear wether
it still was part of the Vilayet or wether it was directly dependent of
the central Osmanli government.
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CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS
Governors and Princes
1866 - 1873 Pavlos Mousouros, absent in 1873 1810 - 1876
Representative
1873 Georgios Georgiadis
1873 - 1874 Konstantinos Adosidis 1818 - 1895
1874 - 1879 Konstantinos Photiadis 1830 -
1879 - 1885 Konstantinos Adosidis (2x)
1885 - 1895 Alexandros Karatheodoris Pasha 1833 - 1906
1895 - 1896 Georgios Verovits 1845 -
1896 - 1899 Stephanos Mousouros 1841 - 1907
1899 - 1900 Konstantinos Vagianis 1846 - 1919
1900 - 1902 Michail Georgiadis 1841 -
1902 - 1904 Alexandros Mavrogenis Bey 1845 - 1929
1904 - 1906 Ioannis Vithynos Bey 1847 - 1912
1906 Konstantinos Karatheodoris 1841 - 1922
1907 - 1908 Georgios Georgiadis (2x)
1908 - 1912 Andreas Emm. Kopasis Effendi 1856 - 1912
1912 Grigorios Vegleris Bey 1862 - 1948
Chairman of the Provisional Government
1912 Themistoklis Sophoulis (2) 1862 - 1949
(2) Commander of the Greek forces in the islands
1912 - 1913 Adm. Pavlos Kountouriotis 1855 - 1935
Sophoulis possibly continued as governor of the island until its formal
annexation to Greece.
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