Georgia marks national Flag Day
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Today Georgia marks a national Flag Day that is also known as a Five Cross Flag of Georgia.
Various festive events are being planned to celebrate the date.
The Georgian national flag will be festively raised in various parts of Georgia.
The President of Georgia will hold a special reception for the day, hosting Georgian youth from the country regions.
The President is also scheduled to deliver a speech in the afternoon speaking about the importance of the national symbolic.
A special exhibition will also be organised starting from 3pm at the Presidential Palace in Avlabari, depicting medieval period heraldic materials reflecting the Five Cross Flag.
The current national flag of Georgia was adopted by Parliament on January 14, 2004.
The flag was used by the Georgian patriotic movement following the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
By the late 1990s, the design had become widely known as 'the Georgian historical national flag' as vexillologists had pointed out the red-on-white Jerusalem cross shown as the flag of Tblisi in a 14th-century map by Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano, the 14th century Venetian cartographers.
A majority of Georgians, including the Georgian church had supported the restoration of the flag that took place in 2004.
resident of Georgia Giorgi Margvelahsvili spoke about the importance of the national flag and the state symbolic in his today’s speech dedicated to the date of the national flag of Georgia.
Speaking today at an event celebrating National Flag Day, Georgia's President said, "Raising a flag is a symbol of statehood and liberty and freedom of the people living in this state".
Today Georgia marks National Flag Day that is also known as the Five Cross Flag of Georgia. Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili raised the national flag with the children of Georgian heroes Giorgi Antsukhelidze and Zaza Damenia at the Presidential Palace this morning.
Today Georgia marks the day of its national flag. The current national flag was officially introduced on 14 January 2004. The flag was used by the Georgian patriotic movement following the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
Georgia marks the day of its national flag today. The current national flag was officially introduced on January 14, 2004.The flag was used by the Georgian patriotic movement following the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.By the late 1990s, the design had become widely known as 'the Georgian historical national flag' as vexillologists had pointed out the red-on-white Jerusalem cross shown as the flag of Tbilisi in a 14th-century map by Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano, the 14th century Venetian cartographers.
Georgia is celebrating National Flag Day today. The current national symbol of Georgia, also known as the Five Cross Flag, was officially introduced in January 2004. The flag of Georgia which was used before the current one was a three-coloured one (red, black and white) first adopted for the 1918-1921 First Democratic Republic of Georgia.