State · 1974 – present
Greece
A state of 1974 – present — 52 years, still standing in Europe. The atlas records 18 things within it — unrest and atrocity 2 · famine and plague 1 · natural disasters 3 · treaties 1 · people 11. Its line of rulers holds 11 people.
- Still standing: the span runs to the year of the build, 2026.
- Held with the record of Third Hellenic Republic, merged into this one.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 52 years
- and still standing
- Rulers
- 11
- the President of Greece
- Most ground
- 121,900 km²
- in 1976
- Within it
- 18
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 4
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold.
Rulers
The line of President of Greece - the office this state names as its head of state.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgios Papadopoulos | 1973 – 1973 | under a year | deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Phaedon Gizikis | 1973 – 1974 | 1 year | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Michail Stasinopoulos | 1974 – 1975 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Konstantinos Tsatsos | 1975 – 1980 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Konstantinos Karamanlis | 1980 – 1985 | 5 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Christos Sartzetakis | 1985 – 1990 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Konstantinos Karamanlis | 1990 – 1995 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Konstantinos Stephanopoulos | 1995 – 2005 | 10 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Karolos Papoulias | 2005 – 2015 | 10 years | resigned or stood down, the article saysread from the ruler's own article | |
| Prokopis Pavlopoulos | 2015 – 2020 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Katerina Sakellaropoulou | 2020 – 2025 | 5 years | ending not on record | |
| Konstantinos Tasoulas | 2025 – in office | in office since 2025 | still in office |
11 rulers, 11 with terms dated as terms, covering 1973 – 2025. Median reign 5 years. 2 of 11 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Greece, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Georgios Papadopoulos | 1967 – 1973 |
| Adamantios Androutsopoulos | 1973 – 1974 |
| Spiridon Markezinis | 1973 – 1973 |
| Konstantinos Karamanlis | 1974 – 1980 |
| Georgios Rallis | 1980 – 1981 |
| Andreas Papandreou | 1981 – 1989 |
| Tzannis Tzannetakis | 1989 – 1989 |
| Xenophon Zolotas | 1989 – 1990 |
| Ioannis Grivas | 1989 – 1989 |
| Konstantinos Mitsotakis | 1990 – 1993 |
| Andreas Papandreou | 1993 – 1996 |
| Costas Simitis | 1996 – 2004 |
| Kostas Karamanlis | 2004 – 2009 |
| Giorgos Papandreou | 2009 – 2011 |
| Loukas Papademos | 2011 – 2012 |
| Panagiotis Pikrammenos | 2012 – 2012 |
| Antonis Samaras | 2012 – 2015 |
| Vasiliki Thanou | 2015 – 2015 |
| Alexis Tsipras | 2015 – 2019 |
| Kyriakos Mitsotakis | 2019 – 2023 |
| Ioannis Sarmas | 2023 – 2023 |
| Kyriakos Mitsotakis | 2023 – … |
Ground held, by year
km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.
121,900 km² in 1984, 121,600 km² in 2024; at its largest 121,900 km² in 1984. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
flag, 1821 – 1830Greek Independence 1821 · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_Greece_(1822-1978).svg.png)
flag, 1822 – 1978Flag of Greece (1822-1978) · Public domain 
coat of arms, from 1975Coat of arms of Greece · Public domain 
flag, from 1978Flag of Greece · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199911 rows
- Alexis Tsipras · politician · 1974 – present
- Katerina Sakellaropoulou · ruler · 1956 – present
- Karolos Papoulias · ruler · 1929 – 2021
- Prokopis Pavlopoulos · ruler · 1950 – present
- Konstantinos Karamanlis · ruler · 1907 – 1998
- Konstantinos Stephanopoulos · ruler · 1926 – 2016
- Konstantinos Tasoulas · ruler · 1959 – present
- Christos Sartzetakis · ruler · 1929 – 2022
and 3 more in the atlas.
2000 – 20996 rows · 2 risings, regime changes and massacres
- 2008 Greek riots · unrest · 2008
- Prespa Agreement · treaty · 2018
- COVID-19 pandemic in Greece · plague · 2020
- Anti-austerity movement in Greece · unrest · 2010 – 2012
- 2021 Arkalochori earthquake · disaster · 2021
- 2025 Santorini earthquakes · disaster · 2025
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood52 years
stood longer than 34% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- The most ground it held121,900 km²
held more ground at its peak than 49% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median5 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 18% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record11
has more rulers on record than 83% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 33 causes the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1964 – 2036, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1976, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q41 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.