Nafplio is a seaport town located in Greece. A historical city, inhabited since the prehistoric years. Part of the lordship of Argos and Nafplia in the Middle Ages, held by de la Roche after the Fourth Crusade, under the Republic of Venice, and lastly the Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans conquered the city in 1540. The Venetians retook it in 1685. They built Palamidi, the last major construction of the Venetian empire overseas. In 1822, after the Greek War of Independence against the Turks, the Greeks took the city.
In 1828 Nafplio became the first official capital of Greece by Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first head of state of Greece. Ioannis Kapodistrias was born in Corfu; he studied medicine, philosophy, and law at the University of Padua. In 1809 he entered the service of Alexander of Russia.
In 1831 he ordered the imprisonment of Petrobey Mavromichalis. In October of 1831 Kapodistrias was assassinated by Konstantis and Georgios Mavromichalis outside the church of Saint Spyridon.
After this, King Otto took the throne. He was a Bavarian prince who became the first king of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London. He was deposed in 1862. He was the second son of King Ludwig of Bavaria. He reached Nafplio on 18/02/1833. As he was a minor, his government was run by a three-man regency council of Bavarian officials.
Otto was notable for moving the capital of Greece from Nafplion to Athens. One of the Bavarian officials was called Armansberg. He lived in a house called Armansberg's house from 1833 to 1834.
Bouboulina originated from the island of Hydra. She married twice. Her second husband, Dimitrios Bouboulis, was killed in a battle against Algerian pirates in 1811. Bouboulina took over his fortune and his trading business and had four more ships built, including the large warship Agamemnon.
Bouboulina joined the Filiki Etaireia, bought arms and ammunition, and brought them securely to Spetses. On the 13th of March 1821, Bouboulina raised on the mast of Agamemnon her own Greek flag. The people of Spetses revolted on the 3rd of April and joined forces with ships from other Greek islands.
Bouboulina was killed in 1825 as the result of a family feud in Spetses. After her death, Emperor Alexander the First of Russia granted Bouboulina the honorary rank of Admiral of the Russian Navy. On the island of Spetses the "Bouboulina museum" is housed in the 300-year-old mansion of Bouboulina's second husband, Bouboulis.
Theodoros Kolokotronis was a Greek general of the Greek War of Independence (1821-1829) against the Ottoman Empire. He grew up in Arcadia in the central Peloponnese. He was named a commander in chief during the siege of Tripolitsa. After this, he commanded Greek troops in the siege of the coastal town of Nafplion.
From December 1823 to February 1825, he took part in the civil war. After the war, he became a supporter of Ioannis Kapodistrias. Later he opposed the Bavarian-dominated regency, and on June 7th, 1834, he was charged with treason.
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