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Vyron Polydoras

Greek politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ7943966
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Vyron Polydoras (Greek: Βύρων Πολύδωρας, Greek pronunciation: [ˈviron poˈliðoras]; born 27 January 1947 in Perivolia, Zacharo, Elis, Greece) is a Greek politician who was the Minister for Public Order and Justice of Greece from 2006 to 2007 in the first Cabinet of Kostas Karamanlis.

He is a member of the New Democracy party and belongs to the center-right group of this party. He has a degree in law in the University of Athens. He has studied political science with a Fulbright scholarship in the United States. He has studied international law at The Hague Academy of International Law. He has also studied human rights in the University of Strasbourg. He has studied international economics in Salzburg, Austria.

He has also written more than 34 books of political, sociological and innovating content. He has been rewarded in 1998 by the Greek Association of Literature Interpreters for his work on The Eve of St. Agnes by John Keats.

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

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1947, 2006, 2007, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-01-27. For this dossier, Vyron, Polydoras and Greek is the immediate research focus.
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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 Mar 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7943966. VIAF identifies the subject as 6635712. The Library of Congress control number is n95006746. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947, 2006, 2007 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from Vyron Polydoras” 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.