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Greece: Ministers

Prime Minister
Minister of Defense
- Car flag
Flags no longer in use
- Minister of Navy
- Other Ministers

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Prime Minister

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

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

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

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