Flag of

Greece
 The • The Greek national flag has a 200

Greek year history

• It was initially conceived during

national the greek war of independence

declared against the Ottoman
Empire on 1821

flag
 What is
the story • The cross represents the christian
religion

behind • The nine blue and white horizontal

stripes of the flag stand for the nine

the flag of syllables of the greek motto

Elefhzeria Thanatos

Greece ?
What does
the Greek • The alternating blue and white
stripes either referred to the nine
Orthodox muses , the sea and sky of Greece
or the syllables to the Greek phrase
flag of “Freedom or Death “

represent?
What does
the Greece • The national flag of Greece consist
of four white and five blue

flag alternating horizontal stripes,with a

white cross on the upper left corner

consist of?