Current and Historical Variants Used Outside Greece
| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1834–1912 | Flag of the autonomous Principality of Samos, tributary to the Ottoman Empire. | The flag consists of the plain cross version of the Greek national flag, with the upper half field in the red of the Ottoman flag. | |
| 1898–1913 | Flag of the autonomous Cretan State (Kritiki Politeia). | The flag consists of the plain cross version of the Greek national flag, with the canton in red with a white five-pointed star, symbolizing Ottoman suzerainty. It was not popular during its period of official use, as Cretans wanted union with Greece. | |
| 1866 | Flag used in the Arkadi Monastery by Christian Cretans supporting union with Greece, during the Great Cretan Revolt of 1866–1869. | The flag consists of the plain cross version of the Greek national flag, featuring the initials of the motto Κρήτη, Ένωσις, Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος ("Crete, Enosis, Freedom or Death"), and the cross with the inscription IΣ ΧΣ ΝΙΚΑ ("Jesus Christ Conquers"). | |
| 1912 | Flag of the Free State of Ikaria. | ||
| 1914 | Flag of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus. | ||
| 1917–1922 | Flag of the Republic of Pontus. | ||
| since 1964 | Jack of the Cyprus Navy. | A square flag with a white cross on a blue field, with a crossed anchor, trident and cross in gold superimposed. |
Read more about this topic: Flags Of Greece
Famous quotes containing the words current, historical, variants and/or greece:
“We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in.”
—Anna C. Brackett (1836–1911)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature—for instance in a biological survey of evolution—we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
—Owen Barfield (b. 1898)
“Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The science, the art, the jurisprudence, the chief political and social theories, of the modern world have grown out of Greece and Rome—not by favor of, but in the teeth of, the fundamental teachings of early Christianity, to which science, art, and any serious occupation with the things of this world were alike despicable.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)