The current flag of the Hellenic Republic, is a small unitary state located in southern Europe - is a cloth of rectangular form, depicting nine horizontal stripes of white and blue colors. In the upper left of the flag has a blue square box inside of which there is a white cross with equal-length rays. The Flag of Greece at the Olympic games traditionally rises first. Banner blue and white colors, with a special arrangement of cross and odd number of strips, marks the opening ceremony of the major sporting events in the world. Because the tradition of the Olympics originated in Ancient Greece in 776 BC In this article we will talk about how to change the main state symbol of the country for centuries, what he represented and how he inspired the Greek people during the liberation wars against the Turkish invaders.
The Flag of the Hellenic Republic represents their country, freedom and God's wisdom. The nine stripes on the flag remind you about the nine syllables of the national motto, which marked the country's liberation from Turkish rule in the war of 1821-1829. - "eleftheria and Thanatos!" (means "Freedom or death!"). They also symbolize the nine geographic regions of the Hellenic Republic, Macedonia, Thessaly, Thrace, Epirus, Peloponness, Ionian Islands, Crete, Aegean Islands and Central Greece with the island Euboea. In General, for the Greeks the number 9 has a sacred meaning. The Cross represents the Christian religion, the people's faith in God and a huge role of the Greek Orthodox Church in a difficult war of liberation. White cross and four stripes symbolizes the pristine nature, peace, purity of ideals, the sacred character of the struggle for independence. National flag of Greece is also blue. He represents peace and the sky, blessing the Lord God to fight, as well as sea - Cretan, Aegean, Mediterranean and Ionian, and surrounding Greek Islands. Now you know that symbolizes the flag of Greece. Photos shows how looks the most important symbol of state power in our days.
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For centuries a form of government of Greece changed several times, and, of course, along with it has evolved and national symbols. In Ancient and Hellenistic Greece flags as such did not exist. Instead of flags used emblems that were placed on the sails of ships and the shields of the soldiers. Such marks symbolized the membership in any policy. It is believed that the first flags appeared on the territory of Greece, was a Roman military standard, called vexillum. They consisted of quadrangular pieces of cloth attached to a crossbar that is perpendicular to the shaft. Vexillum was used during the battle to denote different military units, as well as the battle flag for the Admiral's ships, or above the tents of the generals.
In the Byzantine period of Greek history flags continued to serve as a battle standard. The most important of them at that time was the so-called Labarum - the banner of the Byzantine emperors. In the surviving sources (the"Madrid chronicle") reports that the flag of Ancient Greece is often executed in blue and red colors. Usually in the center of the cloth of Labarum placed Christian symbols - the cross, images of saints, Jesus Christ or the virgin. In the 14th century in the Byzantine Empire ruling almost all of the Greek territories, the first state flag. It was a divided into four parts the panel is square shaped. In two quarters on a white background was placed the cross of St. George red. The other two image banner of the last dynasty of Byzantine rulers, palaeologi.
In 1389 the Turks defeated the Serbs and Bulgarians, headed South, to Greece. Athens fell under the onslaught of the army of the conquerors in 1458, and the Peloponnese in 1460-m. By 1500, virtually all of the territory of the plains of Greece and most of the Islands were under the yoke of the Ottoman Empire. Came one of the most difficult periods in the history of the Greek people. However, the Turks gave the Greeks the freedom of religion and were allowed to use traditional symbols. For example, the Greek troops of volunteer soldiers in the Turkish forces went under a special flag until 1619 On it was depicted a cross, and Saint George defeating the dragon. In the 17th century, private trading ships of the Greeks went under the commercial flag with two red and one blue stripe. Looked like the flag of Greece at that time, you can see in the following pictures. Red means the Ottoman Empire, and the blue of the Greek people. This standard was used until 1830, Also in 1774, after the signing of the Kucuk Kaynarca Treaty, the Greek merchant ships were allowed to go under the Russian flag.
Inthe time of the Second Peloponnesian uprising of 1770 (against the oppression of the Turks) Greeks began to use a special cloth white with the George cross blue. In the future, this banner became a symbol of the struggle of Greek Christians against the Ottoman oppressors. Over time, the flag was added the inverted Crescent. The cross was depicted on it. In 1800, it was formed the first Greek state in the Ionian Islands free from Turkish rule. What is the flag of Greece was then? Until 1863, the flag served as a blue flag, on which was depicted a Golden winged lion of St. Mark, holding one paw on a book. In 1815 has been added to the border of red color, and in 1817 the British Union Jack (in the patronage of the UK).
In the 20-ies of the 19th century on the territory of Greece there arose various movements, which had their own banners. The rebels of the Islands of the Ionian sea created a flag with three stripes - white, red and green colors. On the banner, the pole, was a picture of a black double-headed eagle. The movement, led by Nikiforos Phocas, was marked by a flag consisting of four white and five blue stripes. In the upper left part of the cloth was a picture of a white cross and the words "you win!". The movement, headed by Alexander Ypsilanti, had a flag consisting of black, red and white stripes. Also on the panel was depicted the scene of the exaltation of the Holy cross saints Constantine and Helena and rising from the flames Phoenix. The banner should contain the inscription: "he will win!" and "Reborn from the ashes." It looks like the flag of Greece of the early 19th century, you can see in the following pictures. In 1821 he became the first official symbol of the country and was consecrated by the Metropolitan. However, after the movement suffered defeat, this symbol disappeared. In March of 1821 in Greece there was another banner - a dark red flag, in the centre of which was a picture of a black cross and inverted Crescent below it. Then the black cross was replaced by white. This flag became the national flag.
In March, 1822, the provisional government of Greece issued a decree, which was approved by the national Navy, and the flag of the armed forces. The first was a rectangular blue flag, in the centre of which there was a white cross of St. George. The second consisted of nine alternating stripes of blue and white flowers, with a cross in the first quarter. The third was the same as the first. In 1832, a monarchy was established, and the flag of Greece was modified. The cloth added the image of a crown with a shield. The latter was removed after the abdication of king Otto I. In 1941 to 1944, Greek people's liberation army conducted military operations against the German occupiers under the blue flag in the center of the cross which was placed the outline of a triangle inscribed in a circle. The flag of Greece was again revised in 1967, when came to power the military junta of the so-called colonels led by Georgios Papadopoulos. The image of the crown was removed from the cloth. From 1974 to 1978, after the overthrow of the junta, was again used the blue flag with the George cross. And in December 1978 was approved by the state and the national flag of Greece as we see it in our days.
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