Greece Flag

The Kingdom of Greece is located between Turkey and Albania and borders on the Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, and Aegean Sea. The Greece weather is temperate with dry, hot summers and wet, mild winters. The largest city and capital of Greece is Athens and their official language is Greek.

The Greek flag, referred to as the ‘blue-white’ in Greece, has nine horizontal stripes of equal size. The color of Greek national flag is blue and white. The colors of Greek flag alternate with blue and white. The top stripe on the Greek national flag and bottom strip on the Greece flag are blue. On the flag of Greece is a blue canton located on the upper left quarter, also called the hoist side, containing a white cross. The Greek flag meaning of the white cross represents the Greece established religion of Greek Orthodoxy.

One theory on the Greek flags nine stripes is that these nine stripes symbolize the Greek patriot’s nine-syllables of the motto meaning ‘Freedom or Death’. In Greek, it is "Έλευθερία ή Θάνατος" with the syllables "Έλευθερία" represented by the five blue stripes on the Greek flag and "ή Θάνατος" represented by the four white stripes on the flag of Greece. Another theory on the Greece flag stripes is that the nine stripes represent the nine Muses, the goddesses of civilization and art. Muses are spirits or goddessess who, with their graces, supply inspiration to the creation process and embody the arts. The white and blue colors on Greece flags symbolize the sky and sea of Greece along with the waves and white clouds. On a waving Greek flag, white also stands for the honor and purity of Greece’s struggle for freedom and independence over the years. On a Greece flag image, the white cross represents the established religion of Greece which is Greek Orthodoxy. Whether the colors of the Greek flag are on a Greece flag full size, Greek flag wallpaper, or a picture of the Greek national flag, the colors are the same although, throughout history, the blue varies from dark blue to light blue.

Greece adopted their current Greek national flag on December 22, 1978. The Greece flag dates back to the beginning of the nineteenth century during the revolutionary war between the Greeks and the Ottoman Turks. In 1822 Greece adopted their first flag of Greece after they declared independence on March 25, 1821.