thumb| greek europlate  greek vehicle registration plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate (e.g. ÎÎÎ-1000). the letters represent the district (prefecture) that issues the plates while the numbers begin from 1000 to 9999. similar plates with digits beginning from 1 to 999 are issued for motorcycles which exceed 50 cc. with the exception of athens and thessaloniki, all districts are represented by the first 2 letters. the final letter in the sequence changes in greek alphabetical order after 9,000 issued plates. for example, patras plates are ÎÎ§Î-1000, where ÎÎ§ represents the achaia prefecture of which patras is the capital. when ÎÎ§Î-9999 is reached the plates turn to ÎÎ§Î-1000 and this continues until ÎÎ§Î§ is finished. only the letters from the intersection between the latin and greek alphabets by glyph appearance are used, namely Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î, Î¡, Î¤, Î¥, Î§ (in greek alphabetical order). this is because greece is a contracting party to the vienna convention on road traffic, which in annex 2 requires registration numbers to be displayed in capital latin characters and arabic numerals. the rule applies in a similar way in russia, ukraine, belarus, bosnia and herzegovina and bulgaria. combinations used for overseas residents are l-nnnn (where l = letter and n = number) and are limited. <!--some vehicles (for example, sport utility vehicles) and tractors are not part of this system; they are given nnnn.--> until 2003, taxis used l-nnnn; the plate was aligned with the prefecture and the letters were colored red. ==history== ===1952-1955=== when number plates were introduced to greece, they were numbered and in the late 1950s the system was l-nnn and ll-nnn. the letters were are greek letters and latin letters,respectively. ===1956-1971=== in 1956, the system was nnnnnn. ===1972â1982=== 150px|thumb in 1972, they became lettered and the system was ll-nnnn while trucks used l-nnnn. ===1983â2003=== 150px|thumb in 1983, the system was lll-nnnn and the first two letters are prefecture letters. ===2004 to present=== 150px|thumb in 2004, the euroband was added. == car designations == thumb|200px|a greek motorcycle licence plate === prefectures (in greek alphabetical order) === the first 2 of 3 letters (which are listed below) of a licence plate usually repr
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