The Hellenic Gendarmerie was the national gendarmerie and military police force of Greece.
Gendarmes in Chalcis in 1835.
Greek Gendarmerie at the turn of the 20th century
Georgios Papandreou and Nikolaos Plastiras with Gendarmerie officers, 1950
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Otto was a Bavarian prince who ruled as King of Greece from the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece on 27 May 1832, under the Convention of London, until he was deposed in October 1862.
Portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler, 1833
"The Entry of King Otto in Athens" by Peter von Hess, 1839
A portrait by Gottlieb Bodmer
Men of the Royal Gendarmerie Corps which was established after the enthronement of Otto in 1833