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The National Flag of Greece is cyan and white, it is made up of nine (9) stripes equal in width, of which five (5) are cyan and four (4) are white so that the upper and lower stripes are cyan and the others in between are white. Law 851/1978, Regarding the National Flag, Article 1, Clause 1.
First flag of the Greek Merchant Navy, adopted in January 1822. In 1828 it was discontinued, as it was decided that the cross-and-stripes naval flag (today's national flag) should be flown by both military and merchant ships. Blue flag with an inverse state flag on the canton (Blue cross on white field). 1833–1858.
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC.
Greece, [ a ] officially the Hellenic Republic, [ b ] is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and ...
Please help improve this articleif you can. (October 2021)(Learn how and when to remove this message) This article contains a list of the flags and/or modifications made on the flags of current sovereign nations. Sovereign states. [edit] Country. before 1700s. 1700s. 1710s.
A relief sculpture depicting Helios with a rayed halo (Athena 's temple, Ilion, early 4th century BC) The Vergina Sun (Greek: Ήλιος της Βεργίνας, romanized:Ilios tis Vergínas, lit. 'Sun of Vergina'), also known as the Star of Vergina, Vergina Star or Argead Star, is a rayed solar symbol first appearing in ancient Greek art of ...
The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; [ a ] Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, Ελληνοπόντιοι[ b ][ c ]), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek [ 18 ][ 19 ] group indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia (modern-day Turkey). They ...
The Flag of Greece is also blue and white, as defined by Law 851/1978 Regarding the National Flag. [22] It specifies the colour of "cyan" (Greek: κυανό, kyano), meaning "blue", so the shade of blue is ambiguous. The Order of the Redeemer and military decoration Cross of Valour both have ribbons in the national colours. [23]