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The Greek national assemblies ( el, Εθνοσυνελεύσεις) are representative bodies of the Greek people. During and in the direct aftermath of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), the name was used for the insurgents' proto-parliamentary assemblies. Thereafter, the term has been used for a number of extraordinary assemblies chiefly in regard to changes in the Constitution and the form of government of Greece.


Assemblies of the War of Independence

Their purpose was the drafting of the first constitutions by which the nascent Greek state was to be governed, and elect the parliamentary and executive bodies to lead the struggle for liberation. * First National Assembly of Epidaurus (December 1821 – January 1822), proclaimed Independence, adopted the first provisional
constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...
* Second National Assembly at Astros (29 March – 18 April 1823), revised the Epiraurus constitution * (6–16 April 1826), dissolved and reconvened at Ermioni and Aegina * Third National Assembly at Aegina/ (January–March 1826), both claimed legitimacy, united at the * Third National Assembly at Troezen (19 March – 5 May 1827), which adopted a new
constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...
and elected
Ioannis Kapodistrias Count Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias (10 or 11 February 1776 – 9 October 1831), sometimes anglicized as John Capodistrias ( el, Κόμης Ιωάννης Αντώνιος Καποδίστριας, Komis Ioannis Antonios Kapodistrias; russian: ...
as Governor of Greece for seven years *
Fourth National Assembly at Argos The Fourth National Assembly at Argos ( el, Δʹ Εθνοσυνέλευση Άργους) was a Greek convention which sat at Argos from 11 July to 6 August 1829, during the Greek War of Independence. The Fourth National Assembly followed on f ...
(11 July – 6 August 1829), adopted a series of administrative reforms at the suggestion of Kapodistrias * Fifth National Assembly at Nafplion (5 December 1831 – March 1832), agreed to the election of the Bavarian prince Otto as King of Greece, adopted a new (and in the event never to be implemented)


Assemblies in independent Greece

These were convened decide on issues regarding the form of government and promulgate new constitutions. * (3 November 1843 – 18 March 1844), convened after the 3 September 1843 Revolution, drafted a new
constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When these princ ...
making Greece a
constitutional monarchy A constitutional monarchy, parliamentary monarchy, or democratic monarchy is a form of monarchy in which the monarch exercises their authority in accordance with a constitution and is not alone in decision making. Constitutional monarchies dif ...
* (10 December 1862 – October 1864), convened in the aftermath of the ousting of King Otto, it presided over the election of Danish prince George Christian William as King of the Hellenes and the adoption of a new constitution * , convened in 1920, lasting until 1922 when it was dissolved in the aftermath of the Asia Minor Disaster * , convened in 1923, abolished the monarchy and declared the
Second Hellenic Republic The Second Hellenic Republic is a modern historiographical term used to refer to the Greek state during a period of republican governance between 1924 and 1935. To its contemporaries it was known officially as the Hellenic Republic ( el, Ἑλ ...
*
Fifth National Assembly of the Greeks at Athens Fifth is the ordinal form of the number five. Fifth or The Fifth may refer to: * Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, as in the expression "pleading the Fifth" * Fifth column, a political term * Fifth disease, a contagious rash that ...
, convened in October 1935, restored the monarchy and the 1911 constitution {{Greek War of Independence, state=collapsed