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Kostas Batuvas

Greek politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ19904385 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kostas Batuvas (Greek: Κώστας Μπαντουβάς; 1934 – 11 December 2024) was a Greek politician. A member of the Centre Union – New Forces, the Union of the Democratic Centre, and PASOK, he served in the Hellenic Parliament from 1974 to 1981 and again from 1985 to 2000. He was also Minister of Transport and Communications from 1986 to 1988.

Batuvas died in Athens on 11 December 2024, at the age of 90.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Kostas Batuvas” is greek politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kostas, Batuvas and Greek, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1934, 2024, 1974, 1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934-01-01. For this dossier, Kostas, Batuvas and Greek is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19904385. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934, 2024, 1974 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kostas Batuvas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.