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 offi
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
The 4th of August Regime, commonly also known as the Metaxas regime, was a dictatorial regime under the leadership of General Ioannis Metaxas that ruled the Kingdom of Greece from 1936 to 1941.
Second Hellenic Republic
…fraud. The fall of the Republic eventually paved the way for Greece to become a totalitarian single-party state, when Ioannis Metaxas established the 4th of August Regime in 1936, lasting until the Axis occupation of Greece in 1941. When the Republic was proclaimed on 25 March 1924, the official name adopted for the…
Propaganda poster of the regime
EON on parade (from its official magazine Neolaia). The double axe, emblem of the organisation, is visible on the standard.
Poster of the Metaxas regime and the General Confederation of Greek Workers promoting the Social Insurance Institute (IKA)
Ioannis Metaxas with King George II and Alexandros Papagos during a meeting of the Anglo-Greek War Council.