Kastelorizo (Greece)

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Last modified: 2010-01-30 by ivan sache
Keywords: kastelorizo | heart (blue) | anchor: fouled (blue) | cross (blue) |
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• Presentation of Kastelorizo
• Historical flag of Kastelorizo

See also:

• Greece
• Greece: War of Independence

Presentation of Kastelorizo

The island of Kastelorizo is located a few miles off the southern caost of Turkey.

Ivan Sache, 2 February 2005

Historical flag of Kastelorizo

Flag of Psara - Image modified from [k7k97] by Eugene Ipavec, 24 November 2009

According to the book Hellenic flags [k7k97], the flag used in Kastelorizo in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence is white with a blue border, a cross and a fouled anchor crossed per saltire over a heart, all blue and surrounded by the blue writing "ΜΕΓΙΣΤΗ" (left) "ΚΑΣΤΕΛΟΡΙΖΟ" (right).
The heart stands for love, the nachor for hope and the cross for faith.

Nozomi Karyasu & Ivan Sache, 29 November 2009