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 Bishop Germanos of Patras blessing the flag of the Greek revolutionaries at the Monastery of Agia Lavra, part of a popular legend regarding the start of the revolution of 1821, although it never actually happened. |
The flag of Greece (popularly referred to as the "sky blue-white" or the "blue-white" and in Greek: "Γαλανόλευκη" or "Κυανόλευκη"), officially recognized by Greece as one of its national symbols, is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. There is a blue canton in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Eastern Orthodox Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of Greece and Cyprus. According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine syllables of the phrase "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος" ("Freedom or Death"), the five blue stripes for the syllables "Έλευθερία" and the four white stripes "ή Θάνατος". The nine stripes are also said to represent the letters of the word "freedom" (Greek: Ελευθερία). There is also a different theory, that the nine stripes symbolize the nine Muses, the goddesses of art and civilization (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks). The official flag ratio is 2:3.
- Related: Greece, Hymn to Liberty, Byzantine heraldry, History of Greece
| Presidency of the Hellenic Republic: State Symbols... Presidency of the Hellenic Republic: State Symbols, The Flag www.presidency.gr/.../index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=6&lang=en - Web |
| Historical Flags of Greece Historical Flags of Greece www.rbvex.it/grecia.html - Web |
| Article on the Greek Flag from the website of the ... Article on the Greek Flag from the website of the Hellenic Army (in Greek) www.army.gr/dimosieuseis/arthra/articles-flag.php - Web |
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| Older article on the Greek Flag from the website o... Older article on the Greek Flag from the website of the Hellenic Army (in Greek) web.archive.org/.../ - Web |
| Greek flags during the Ottoman era (in Greek) Greek flags during the Ottoman era (in Greek) www.hellasarmy.gr/anagsim.htm - Web |
