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I am a software engineer in Athens, and Kliros started with my own family's property on Karpathos. There was no dispute and nobody was suing anybody. The problem was narrower and more stupid than that: I could not find anyone who would tell me which of six or seven possible procedures our situation actually called for, what it would cost, or which deadlines had already gone past. The professionals I asked each gave a confident answer, and the answers were about different procedures.

So I went looking for how common that is, and found that 3.45 million property rights in the Hellenic Cadastre are recorded as belonging to an unknown owner. That reframed it. What my family had was not a private piece of bad luck. It was a procedural failure at national scale, and a large share of the families sitting inside it emigrated a generation or two ago and have no way back in: no Greek tax number, no power of attorney, no idea that a correction window was closing on a fixed date nobody had told them about.