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Between 1822 and 1978, this flag was flown on Greek vessels and also used for foreign service. In 1978, it was established as the sole National Flag of Greece, and as the war and civil Ensign, and has been used in that capacity ever since. Nine horizontal stripes of equal width; five blue alternating with four white.
The closest to a Greek "national" flag during Ottoman rule was the so-called "Graeco-Ottoman flag" (Γραικοθωμανική παντιέρα), a civil ensign Greek Orthodox merchants (better: merchants from the Greek-dominated Orthodox millet) were allowed to fly on their ships, combining stripes with red (for the Ottoman Empire) and blue ...
Greece: 1378 1769 1822 1833 1862 1967 1970 1975 1978 Greece: 1822 (naval ensign) Grenada: 1663 1715 1763 1779 1783 1801 1875 1903 1958 1962 1967 1974 Grenada: Guatemala: 1519 1821 1823 1825 1838 1843 1851 1858 1871 Guatemala: Guinea: 1898 1958 Guinea: Guinea-Bissau: 1667 1707 1750 1816 1826 1830 1911 1974 Guinea-Bissau: Guyana: 1581 1795 1806 ...
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The origin of flags is unknown. Some of the earliest known banners come from ancient China to identify different parts of the army. [3] For example, it is recorded that the armies of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC carried a white banner before them, although no extant depictions exist of these banners.
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Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919 This is a collection of lists of flags , including the flags of states or territories , groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries.
The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column.