Second Piraean Republic
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Second Piraean Republic Δεύτερη Πειραιηκή Δημοκρατία | |||||||||
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1948–1979 | |||||||||
Motto: "Ένα, Μεγαλο, Ελεγθερος" "One, Great and Free" | |||||||||
Anthem: «Βασιλικό εμβατήριο» "The Grenadier March" | |||||||||
Capital | Alikianos | ||||||||
Religion | Episemialism | ||||||||
Demonym(s) | Piraean | ||||||||
Government | Unitary personalist dictatorship | ||||||||
Head of State | |||||||||
• 1948-1948 (Interim) | Kyriakos Kanopoulos | ||||||||
• 1948-1978 | Konstantinos Athanopoulos | ||||||||
• 1978-1979 (Last) | Ioannis Christodoulopoulos | ||||||||
Legislature | Piraean Courts | ||||||||
Historical era | Solarian War • Modern Euclea | ||||||||
• Established | 1948 | ||||||||
• National plebiscite | 1979 | ||||||||
Currency | Lira | ||||||||
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Today part of | Piraea Etruria |
The Second Piraese Republic (Piraese: Δεύτερη Πειραιηκή Δημοκρατία; tr. Defteri Pireikí Dimokratía), also named officially as the State of Piraea, was a period of the Piraese history between 1948 and 1979, during which the country was governed by a military junta under a personalist dictatorship of National Functionalist characteristics led by Konstantinos Athanopoulos during most of its time and the political umbrella of National Alignment.