Second Hellenic Republic
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The Second Hellenic Republic is a modern historiographical term used to refer to the Greek state during a period of republican governance between 1924 and 1935. To its contemporaries it was known officially as the Hellenic Republic or more commonly as Greece. It occupied virtually the coterminous territory of modern Greece and bordered Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and the Italian Aegean Islands. The term Second Republic is used to differentiate it from the First and Third republics.
General Nikolaos Plastiras, leader of the 1922 Revolution, gives the power to the politicians (1924)
Proclamation of the Second Hellenic Republic with crowds holding placards depicting Alexandros Papanastasiou, Georgios Kondylis and Alexandros Hatzikyriakos
British cartoon depicting the Greco-Bulgarian war incident of 1925 with the League of Nations intervening
Papanastasiou cabinet, 1932
Kingdom of Greece
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The Kingdom of Greece was established in 1832 and was the successor state to the First Hellenic Republic. It was internationally recognised by the Treaty of Constantinople, where Greece also secured its full independence from the Ottoman Empire after nearly four centuries.
King George I of the Hellenes
The Hellenic Parliament in the 1880s, with PM Charilaos Trikoupis standing at the podium
Fencing before King George, during the 1896 Summer Olympics