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Dimitris Koutsoumpas

Greek politician (born 1955)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Dimitrios Koutsoumbas, known as Dimitris Koutsoumbas is a Greek communist politician and member of the Hellenic Parliament who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) since 14 April 2013.

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“Dimitris Koutsoumpas” enters the record as greek politician (born 1955). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dimitris, Koutsoumpas and Greek can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dimitris, Koutsoumpas and Greek.
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“Dimitris Koutsoumpas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dimitris, Koutsoumpas and Greek provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dimitris Koutsoumpas” 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.