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Wiki: The national flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the
"sky-blue-white" or the "blue-white" (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. The blazon of the flag is Azure, four bars Argent; on a
canton of the field a Greek cross throughout of the second. The official flag
ratio is 2:3. The shade of blue used in the flag has varied throughout its
history, from light blue to dark blue, the latter being increasingly used since
the late 1960s. It was officially adopted by the First National Assembly at
Epidaurus on 13 January 1822.
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 "Ελευθερία"
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).
Blue and white have been interpreted as symbolizing the colors
of the famed Greek sky and sea.
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