Georgia marks National Flag Day
State flags are displayed at various cultural monuments and administrative buildings of the municipalities throughout regions of Georgia. Photo: Georgian Interior Ministry.
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Today Georgia is marking National Flag Day.
The current national symbol of Georgia is also known as the Five Cross Flag.
Georgian PM Irakli Garibashvili congratulated the citizens on National Flag Day noting that the flag is a symbol uniting people of many ethnicities, diverse cultures living on ‘one land with one homeland and one future.’
It embodies the common aspiration of all of us to build a modern, developed, strong Georgia based on our great history and culture”, he said.
Speaker of Parliament Shalva Papuashvili also congratulated citizens, highlighting that the ancient five-cross flag combines the country’s aspirations and values, which confirms Georgia's European choice.
This key symbol of statehood and national identity has united all those who value our homeland, its past, present and future. For whom the advancement and development of Georgia is the first priority”, he said.
Happy National Flag Day ????????
— Shalva Papuashvili (@shpapuashvili) January 14, 2022
[1367 Pizzigano chart, showing Tbilisi and its flag] pic.twitter.com/aqjDY4BOhd
A flag-raising ceremony took place on the premises of the 4th Infantry Brigade in Vaziani. Georgian flags were raised on the premises of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia and on all military bases of the Defence Forces, as well as the Ministry of Internal Affairs and its departments.
State flags are displayed at various cultural monuments and administrative buildings of the municipalities throughout regions of Georgia.
#FlagDay at the #OrbelianiPalace
— Orbeliani Presidential Palace (@OrbelianiPalace) January 14, 2022
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The current national flag 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.
Since 2012 January 14 has been celebrated as State Flag Day.
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.
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.
"We are doing everything to have the Georgian national flag raised in NATO and the European Union,” Georgian Parliamentary Speaker Irakli Kobakhidze said at today’s reception dedicated to the National Flag Day. Congratulating everyone with this special day, Kobakhidze said Georgia should return to its historic European family.
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.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Saturday congratulated the citizens on National Flag Day, highlighting it as “one of the most important” symbols of Georgian statehood.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Sunday congratulated the citizens on National Flag Day, highlighting it as “the most visible embodiment of the Georgian spirit, national identity, our freedom and independence”.
Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili on Sunday said Georgia’s national flag would join the flags of the European countries to “form a new and strong unity”, in her address on National Flag Day.
The Government Administration building is on Sunday illuminated in the colours of the Georgian flag as the country marks the National Flag Day, the Administration said.