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The design of the flag above is a series of 5 stripes, the blue ones only stretching to 4/5 of the flag. The banner contains the words "ΗΤΑΝ ΗΕΠΙΤΑΝ" (expression of the Spartan women, when they would send off their sons into war implying: [I will wait for you] either with this [the shield, victorious], or on this [wounded or dead ...
The Spartans used the same typical hoplite equipment as their other Greek neighbors; the only distinctive Spartan features were the crimson tunic (chitōn) and cloak (himation), [38] as well as long hair, which the Spartans retained to a far later date than most Greeks. To the Spartans, long hair kept its older Archaic meaning as the symbol of ...
Ancient Sparta. The decisive Greek victory at Plataea put an end to the Greco-Persian War along with Persian ambitions to expand into Europe. Even though this war was won by a pan-Greek army, credit was given to Sparta, who besides providing the leading forces at Thermopylae and Plataea, had been the de facto leader of the entire Greek ...
The Agiad dynasty (Ancient Greek: Ἀγιάδαι, Agiádai) was one of the two royal families of the Ancient Greek city-state of Sparta. They ruled jointly along with the Eurypontid dynasty , possibly from the 8th century BC onwards, being the senior of the two houses.
The inhabitants of Mani claim to be direct descendants of the ancient Spartans and are considered more "pure-blooded" Greeks. According to their tradition, after the Romans took over Laconia, many of the Spartan citizens who were loyal to the Spartan laws of Lycurgus decided to go to the Spartan mountains of Mani with the rest of the Spartans ...
Eurotas River. According to myth, the first king of the region later to be called Laconia, but then called Lelegia was the eponymous King Lelex.He was followed, according to tradition, by a series of kings allegorizing several traits of later-to-be Sparta and Laconia, such as the Kings Myles, Eurotas, Lacedaemon and Amyclas of Sparta.
In the history of ancient Greece, Thespiae was one of the cities of the federal league known as the Boeotian League.Several traditions agree that the Boeotians were a people expelled from Thessaly some time after the mythical Trojan War, and who colonised the Boeotian plain over a series of generations, of which the occupation of Thespiae formed a later stage.
Banner of the Palaiologoi Middle arms of King Otto Cockade established as a national emblem in 1833. The current coat of arms of Greece derives from the Greek national flag, which was adopted in March 1822. [9] Theories published retrospectively in Greece try to justify this use by making a connection to Byzantine flags and insignia.