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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 ...
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 ...
In October 1862, King Otto was deposed in a popular revolt, but while the Greek people rejected Otto, they did not seem averse to the concept of monarchy per se. Many Greeks, seeking closer ties to the pre-eminent world power , Great Britain , rallied around the idea that Prince Alfred , the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ...
List of kings of Greece; List of heads of state of Greece; List of Greek regents; List of prime ministers of Greece; References This page was last edited on 14 ...
Greek Buddhist monarchs (1 C, 9 P) C. Cultural depictions of Greek monarchs (6 C, 2 P) E. Monarchs of Epirus (1 C) K. Kings of Greece (2 C, 10 P) Q. Queens consort of ...
Rulers of Calakmul (no actual king-list; must be dug out of text); List of lords of Caracol; List of rulers of Copan; List of the rulers of Dos Pilas; Rulers of Dos Pilas; Kʼicheʼ kingdom of Qʼumarkaj (no actual king-list; must be dug out of history)
This is a list of current monarchies. As of 2025, there are 43 sovereign states in the world with a monarch as head of state. There are 13 in Asia, 12 in Europe, 9 in ...