Hymn to Liberty
| English: Hymn to Liberty or Hymn to Freedom | |
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| Ýmnos is tin Eleftherían Ýmnos pros tin Eleftherían |
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Dionysios Solomos, the author of the anthem
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National anthem of  Greece Cyprus
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| Lyrics | Dionysios Solomos, 1823 |
| Music | Nikolaos Mantzaros |
| Adopted | 1865 by Greece 1966 by Cyprus |
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The "Hymn to Liberty" or "Hymn to Freedom" (Greek: Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν, Ýmnos is tin Eleftherían pronounced [ˈim.nos is tin elefˈθeri.an], also Greek: Υμνος προς την ΕλευθερίανÝmnos pros tin Eleftherían pronounced [ˈim.nos pros tin elefˈθeri.an]) is a poem written by Dionýsios Solomós in 1823 that consists of 158 stanzas, which is used as the national anthem of Greece and Cyprus. It was set to music by Nikolaos Mantzaros, and is the longest national anthem in the world by length of text. In 1865, the first three stanzas (and later the first two) officially became the national anthem of Greece and, from 1966, also that of the Republic of Cyprus.
Dionysios Solomos wrote the anthem in 1823 in Zakynthos and one year later was printed in Messolonghi. The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece. The Greek anthem was adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Cyprus by order of the Council of Ministers in 1966.
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