Greece 'I Galanolefki' ( The Blue and White), 'I Kyanolefki' ( The Azure and White) and Proportion 2:3 Adopted 22 December 1978 (Naval Ensign 1822–1978, National Flag 1969–70; 1978 to date) Design Nine horizontal stripes, in turn blue and white; a white cross on a blue square field in canton. The flag of Greece, popularly referred to as the 'sky-blue - white' or the 'blue-white' (: Γαλανόλευκη or Κυανόλευκη), officially recognised by as one of its, 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 symbolises Christianity, the established religion of the Greek people of Greece and Cyprus. The 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 on 13 January 1822.

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According to popular tradition, the nine stripes represent the nine of the phrase ' ('Freedom or Death'), the five blue stripes for the syllables 'Ελευθερία' and the four white stripes 'ή Θάνατος'. Tally erp 9 gst. 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 symbolise the nine, the goddesses of art and civilisation (nine has traditionally been one of the numbers of reference for the Greeks). Blue and white have been interpreted as symbolising the colours of the famed Greek sky and sea. See also: The origins of today's national flag with its cross-and-stripe pattern are a matter of debate. Every part of it, including the blue and white colors, the cross, as well as the stripe arrangement can be connected to very old historical elements; however, it is difficult to establish 'continuity', especially as there is no record of the exact reasoning behind its official adoption in early 1822. [ ] It has been suggested by some Greek historians that the current flag derived from an older design, the virtually identical flag of the powerful.

This flag was based on their coat of arms, whose pattern is supposed to be derived from the standards of their claimed ancestor, Byzantine Emperor (963–969 AD). This pattern (according to not easily verifiable descriptions) included nine stripes of alternating blue and white, as well as a cross, assumed to be placed on the upper left. Although the use of alternating blue and white - or silver - stripes on (several centuries-old) Kallergis' coats of arms is, no depiction of the above described pattern (with the nine stripes and the cross) survives.

The stripe-pattern of the Greek flag is visibly similar to that used (though with different colors) in several other flags that have appeared over the centuries, most notably that of the 's or the. Antiquity and the Byzantine Empire [ ]. This design, from the 14th century during the, is the only attested flag of the. Flags as they are known today did not exist in antiquity.