Second Hellenic Republic

Also known as Hellenic Republic, Greece, 2nd Hellenic Republic

historiographical concept of Greece (1924–1935)

Key facts

1924: 5,924,000
1926: Theodoros Pangalos
1935: 6,839,000
Capital: Athens
Common languages: Greek ( Katharevousa had official status, while Demotic was popular)
Religion: Eastern Orthodox Church
Demonyms: Greek , Hellene
Government: Unitary parliamentary republic (1924–1935) under a military dictatorship (1925–1926)
1924 1926: Pavlos Kountouriotis
1926 1929: Pavlos Kountouriotis
1929 1935: Alexandros Zaimis
1924 first: Alexandros Papanastasiou

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Today part of Greece

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 (Greek: Ἑλληνικὴ Δημοκρατία [eliniˈci ðimokraˈti.a]) or more commonly as Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς [eˈlas], Hellas). It occupied virtually the coterminous territory of modern Greece (with the exception of the Dodecanese) 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.