State · 1832 – 1973

Kingdom of Greece

A state of 1832 – 1973 — 141 years in Europe. It replaced First Hellenic Republic, United States of the Ionian Islands and Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus and 1 more. The atlas records 82 things within it — wars and battles 27 · regime change 2 · unrest and atrocity 2 · natural disasters 1 · treaties 3 · people 46 · works and ideas 1. Its line of rulers holds 7 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 141 years; 1832 – 1973
Rulers: 7; the King of the Hellenes
Most ground: 206,400 km²; in 1920
Within it: 82; recorded rows
Symbols: 2; on record, with years

Map: Kingdom of Greece in 1920, its borders in gold among its neighbours — Kingdom of Greece in 1920, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 206,400 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

Kingdom of Greece in 1832, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Kingdom of Greece in 1920, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

United States of the Ionian Islands · replaces · 1815 – 1864
Free State of Icaria · replaces
First Hellenic Republic · replaces · 1822 – 1832
Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus · replaces · 1914

Rulers

The line of King of the Hellenes - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular road

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Otto of Greece	1832 – 1862	30 years	deposed, the article saysread from the ruler's own article
George I of Greece	1863 – 1913	50 years	killedWikidata's manner of death
Constantine I of Greece	1913 – 1917	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Alexander of Greece	1917 – 1920	3 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	child
Constantine I of Greece	1920 – 1922	2 years	abdicated, the article saysread from the ruler's own article	parent
George II of Greece	1922 – 1924	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
George II of Greece	1935 – 1947	12 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Paul of Greece	1947 – 1964	17 years	died in office of natural causesWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Constantine II of Greece	1964 – 1973	9 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child

7 rulers, 7 with terms dated as terms, covering 1832 – 1973. Median reign 9 years. 4 of 8 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

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.

45,100 km² in 1832, 121,900 km² in 1962; at its largest 141,100 km² in 1922. 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, undatedState Flag of Greece (1863-1924 and 1935-1973) · Public domain
coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Greece (1936-1967) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Royal_Coat_of_Arms_of_Greece.svg : Sodacan derivative work: Sodacan ( talk )

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.

1800 – 189936 rows · 2 wars and battles · 1 risings, regime changes and massacres

George I of Greece · ruler · 1845 – 1913
Otto of Greece · ruler · 1815 – 1867
Constantine I of Greece · ruler · 1868 – 1923
George II of Greece · ruler · 1890 – 1947
Alexander of Greece · ruler · 1893 – 1920
Ioannis Metaxas · politician · 1871 – 1941
Georgios Papandreou · politician · 1888 – 1968
Greco-Turkish War · war · 1897

and 28 more in the atlas.

1900 – 199946 rows · 25 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh · commander · 1921 – 2021
Odysseas Elytis · writer · 1911 – 1996
Constantine II of Greece · ruler · 1940 – 2023
Paul of Greece · ruler · 1901 – 1964
Antonis Samaras · politician · 1951 – present
Greek Civil War · war · 1946 – 1949
Georgios Papadopoulos · ruler · 1919 – 1999
Greco-Italian War · war · 1940 – 1941

and 38 more in the atlas.

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 stood141 years
stood longer than 54% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held206,400 km²
held more ground at its peak than 58% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century2.1
had more wars on record per century than 98% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median9 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 31% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record7
has more rulers on record than 73% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 9 causes the record names and 0 results, 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.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending and 2 some of them; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Dynastic cycle and the decay of group feeling
Ibn Khaldun 1377 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: the condition it names held here, and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- the state 90 to 160 years old — ageBand 141

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1818 – 1987, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1920, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q209065 (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.