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Flag of the Prime Minister

[Prime Minister's flag]

Flag of the Prime Minister - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001

According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], 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.

This flag is shown by Kannik (1956) [kan56] and in National Geographic (1917) [gmc17] but not in the Royal Navy Handbook of Signalling (1913) [g9b13a].

Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001


Flag of the Minister of Defense

[Minister of Defense]

Flag of the Minister of Defense - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001

According to Album des Pavillons [pay00], the flag of the Minister of Defense is similar to the Prime Minister's flag but with three white descending diagonal stripes in the third quarter.

[Car flag of the Minister of Defense]

Car flag of the Minister of Defense - Image by Željko Heimer, 10 October 2001

The same source shows the car flag of the Minister of Defense asa 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 ΑΜΥΝΕΣΘΑΙ ΠΕΡΙ ΠΑΤΡΗΣ stems from Homer's Iliad (12:243) and means "to defend one's country". The whole line reads: ηεις οιυος αριστος αμυνεσθαι περι πατρις (One omen is best, to fight for one's country).

Željko Heimer & Marcus Schmöger, 13 October 2001


Flag of the Minister of the Navy (obsolete)

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

Željko Heimer, 14 October 2001


Flag of other Ministers (obsolete)

[Other Ministers' flag]

Flag of other Ministers - Image by C. Eugene Baldwin , 14 October 2001

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 by Kannik (1956) [kan56] and in National Geographic (1917) [gmc17] but not in the Royal Navy Handbook of Signalling (1913) [g9b13a].

Željko Heimer, 14 October 2001