Mer-Égée
Mer-Égée was one of three short-lived French departments of Greece. It came into existence after Napoleon's conquest in 1797 of the Republic of Venice, when Venetian Greek possessions such as the Ionian islands fell to the French Directory.
The department included the islands of Zante, Kythira and the Strofades, as well as Dragamesto on the Greek mainland. Despite its name, the department was mostly not in the Aegean, but the Ionian Sea, apart from Kythira and its dependencies.
Its prefecture was at the town of Zante. The territories were lost to Russia in 1798 and the department was officially disbanded in 1802.
During the renewed French control of the area in 1807–1809, the department was not re-established, the constitutional form of the Septinsular Republic being kept.
Administration
Commissioner
The Commissioner of the Directory was the highest state representative in the department.| Term start | Term end | Office holder |
| 18 October 1797 | 3 March 1799 | Chriseuil Omer François de Rulhière |