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The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more ...
Constantine II (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Βʹ, romanized: Konstantínos II, pronounced [ˌkonsta(n)ˈdinos o ˈðefteros]; 2 June 1940 – 10 January 2023) [1] was the last king of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1 June 1973.
A Quick History of Modern Greece (2007) excerpt and text search; Gallant, Thomas W. Modern Greece (Brief Histories) (2001) Herzfeld, Michael. Ours Once More: Folklore, Ideology and the Making of Modern Greece (1986) excerpt and text search; Kalyvas, Stathis. Modern Greece: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2015) Keridis ...
Greece and the English, British Diplomacy and the Kings of Greece. London: Tauris Academic Studies. ISBN 978-1-8451-1821-1. Divo, Jean-Paul (1969). Modern Greek Coins, 1828–1968: A Detailed Description of Every Known Greek and Cretan Coin from the Time of Capodistrias Until the Present Time, with Valuations.
The Great War – King Constantine I of Greece; Elli Lemonidou: Constantine I, King of Greece, in: 1914–1918 online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. Newspaper clippings about Constantine I of Greece in the 20th Century Press Archives of the ZBW; Portraits of Constantine I, King of Greece at the National Portrait Gallery, London
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [5] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.
The following is a family tree for the Kings of the Hellenes of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, which ruled Greece between the election of Prince Wilhelm of Denmark (George I) to replace Otto of Greece in 1863 until the declaration of the Second Hellenic Republic in 1924, and again from 1935 until the abolition of the monarchy during the reign of King Constantine II in ...
Paul (Greek: Παύλος, romanized: Pav́los; 14 December 1901 – 6 March 1964) was King of Greece from 1 April 1947 until his death on 6 March 1964.. Paul was born in Athens as the third son of Crown Prince Constantine and Crown Princess Sophia of Greece.