The
Kingdom of the Morea was the official name the
Republic of Venice gave to the
Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the
Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the
Ottoman Empire during the
Morean War in 1684–99. The Venetians tried, with considerable success, to repopulate the country and reinvigorate its agriculture and economy, but were unable to gain the allegiance of the bulk of the population, nor to secure their new possession militarily. As a result, it was lost again to the Ottomans in a brief campaign in June–September 1715.