meaning of Greek flag
The capital of Greece is Athens. The national colours of Greece are blue and white.
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The coast of arms of Greece consists of a white cross on a blue exatcheen ??? wich is surrounded by two laurel branches. It was established on 7th june 1975. Blue symbolizing the sky and the sea / the white : the purity of the Greek war of independance.
The cross represents the christian religion, nine blue and white horizontal stripes on the flag symbolize the nine syllables of the Greek currency alphabet ?. The anthem of freedom is a poem written by Dionysios Solomos (1823).
Relations between Greece and France are traditionnaly close narrow ?, the political aspects were first formed with Franco-Hellenic frienship and cooperation but this solidarity between the two peoples was also built on cultural and ideological elements. Unfortunately, the cross reduced the contacts and excanges between the two countries.
Greece is considered as the founding country of the democracy. It was only in 1821, date of its independance, that Greece learnt liberty. The country had to make up for economic, technological and intellectual retardation and carry on the fight to impose freedom, especially during the dictatorship of colonels from 1967 to 1974. For its entry in European economic community ? in 1981, Greece continued to evolve and to transform. Great efforts were performed, from every point of view. Greece is today, a mixture of culture and traditions, western and oriental traits.
Since 2005, the president has been Karolos Papoulias.
Your president with our president, François Hollande in Athens, 2013.
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