After Greece gained its independence fighting off the Ottoman Empire, the Greek insurgents called upon Ioannis Kapodistrias, a former foreign minister of Russia, to take over the governance of the fledgling state in 1827. Kapodistrias ruled until 1831, when he was assasinated by a family of Greek landowners in response to the imprisonment of one of its
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