Calabria is a region in southern Italy formed of a peninsula between the Ionian and Tyrrhenian Seas. The region appears as the toe of Italy’s iconic “boot” shape. It is separated from Silicy by the Strait of Messina.
Corfu, or Kerkyra, is a Greek island located in the Ionian Sea, northwest of Greece. The Ionian Islands had been under the Venetian rule since the Middle Ages but were occupied by France in 1797.
Genoa is a port city on the northwestern coast of Italy, located on the Gulf of Genoa in the Ligurian Sea. In 1797, the Genoan Republic became a French protectorate and would later be annexed by France in 1805.
