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Greece: Ministers

Last modified: 2003-11-22 by ivan sache
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Prime Minister

[Prime Minister's flag]by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of the Prime Minister is a square blue flag with a white cross and three white rising diagonal stripes in the first quarter.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

This flag is shown in Kannik (1956) [kan56] and National Geographic (1917) [gmc17] but not in Royal Navy Handbook of Signalling (1913) [rhs13].

Zeljko Heimer, 10 October 2001

Minister of Defense

[Minister of Defense]by Zeljko Heimer

The flag pf the Minister of Defense is similar to the Prime Minister's flag but with three white descending diagonal stripes in the third quarter.

Source: Album des Pavillons [pay00]

Zeljko Heimer, 10 October 2001

Car flag

[Car flag of the Minister of Defense]by Zeljko Heimer

The car flag of the Minister of Defense is a dark blue-red-light blue horizontally divided flag, fimbriated white with the Minister's emblem overall and a golden fring on three edges.
The emblem and the inscription can be seen on the website of the Ministry of Defense. The text has a quite unusual Greek font, though. The inscription (Latin transcription: amynesthai peri patris) stems from Homer's Iliad (12:243) and means "to defend one's country". The whole line reads: Heis oiynos aristos amynesthai peri patris (One omen is best, to fight for one's country).

Zeljko Heimer & Marcus Schmöger, 13 October 2001

Flags no longer in use

Minister of Navy

The flag of the Minister of Navy was a square version of the national flag. It is shown in Album des Pavillons, edition 1995 [pie95] , but no longer shown in the 2000 edition [pay].

Zeljko Heimer, 14 October 2001

Other Ministers

[Other Ministers' flag]by C. Eugene Baldwin

The flag used by other Ministers was a square blue flag with a white cross and three white rising diagonal stripes in the first and third quarters.
This flag is shown in Kannik (1956) [kan56] and National Geographic (1917) [gmc17] but not in Royal Navy Handbook of Signalling (1913) [rhs13].

Zeljko Heimer, 14 October 2001