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The Second Hellenic Republic is a modern term used to refer to the Greek state during a period of republican governance between 1924 and 1935. To its contemporaries it was known as the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ἑλληνικὴ Δημοκρατία, Greek pronunciation: [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]). It was a small country in the Balkans comprising the approximate territory of what is modern-day Greece (with the exception of the Dodecanese) and bordered with Albania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Turkey and the Italian Aegean Islands.
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Hellenic Republic Ἑλληνικὴ Δημοκρατία | |||||||||
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1924–1935 | |||||||||
Anthem: Hymn to Liberty | |||||||||
Capital | Athens | ||||||||
Common languages | Diglossia: Katharevousa and Demotic | ||||||||
Government | Parliamentary republic[1] | ||||||||
President | |||||||||
• 1924–1926 | Pavlos Kountouriotis | ||||||||
• 1929–1935 | Alexandros Zaimis | ||||||||
Prime Minister | |||||||||
• 1924 | Alexandros Papanastasiou | ||||||||
• 1933–1935 | Panagis Tsaldaris | ||||||||
Legislature | Parliament | ||||||||
• Upper house | Senate | ||||||||
• Lower house | Chamber of Deputies | ||||||||
Historical era | Interwar period | ||||||||
• Republic proclaimed | 25 March 1924 | ||||||||
13 April 1924 | |||||||||
• Monarchist coup | 10 October 1935 | ||||||||
3 November 1935 | |||||||||
Area | |||||||||
130,199 km2 (50,270 sq mi) | |||||||||
Population | |||||||||
• 1924 | 5,924,000[2] | ||||||||
• 1928 (census) | 6,204,684[2] | ||||||||
• 1935 | 6,839,000[2] | ||||||||
Currency | Greek drachma | ||||||||
ISO 3166 code | GR | ||||||||
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The Republic was proclaimed by the country's parliament on 25 March 1924.[1] A relatively small country with a population of 6.2 million in 1928, it covered a total area of 130,199 km², almost all of modern-day Greece. Over its eleven-year history, the Second Republic saw some of the most important historical events in |modern Greek history emerge; from Greece's first military dictatorship, to the an unprecedented (for Greek standards at the time) short-lived democratic form of governance, the normalisation of Greco-Turkish relations which lasted until the 1950s, and to the first real efforts to industrialise the nation with considerable progress made.
It was abolised on 10 October 1935,[3] and its abolition was confirmed by referendum on 3 November of the same year which is widely accepted as having been rigged. The fall of the Second Republic eventually paved the way for Greece to become a totalitarian single-party state, the 4th of August Regime of Ioannis Metaxas, which lasted from 1936 until the Axis occupation of Greece in 1941.