Talk:Flag of Georgia (country)

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Comments[edit]

Is it sure that the law emendment is in force since January 14? Andres 04:42, 17 Jan 2004 (UTC)

Removed the last reference, as the text referenced basically consists of insults against the president of Georgia and his political party. I don't believe we should pollute Wikipedia with this kind of stuff ('neutrality of point of view' should not mean that we reference all ramblings/insults remotely connected with the subject of the article).

So much work[edit]

To change all the Georgian documents from Soviet style to the new style THEN to the newer style. Someone office clerk must be pissed.

-G

A new flag, again?[edit]

Hi. I saw on TV protests against Mikheil Saakashvili. The current red-crossed flag is scarcely displayed in these demonstrations, contrarily to the protests during the Rose Revolution. Instead several flags can be seen and I wish I knew what they mean. One of them is very often seen : a kind of Denmark-like Scandinavian white cross on a red and blue background see here. It's a kind of compromise between Denmark's and the Dominican Republic's flags. Could someone tell me what it is? Švitrigaila 11:39, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi. This is the flag of the Republican Party of Georgia, I guess. Most of the flags displayed by the demonstrators are those of opposition parties and organizations. --Kober^Talk 12:32, 4 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This flag is NOT new !!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George%27s_Cross#St_George.27s_Cross_in_Georgia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.196.53.215 (talk) 10:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Knights Templar[edit]

Doesn't Georgia's flag bear an uncanny resemblance to one of the flags of the Knights Templar? Museum Replicas lists it as the Templar Flag, but also states that the central is St. George's Cross; the patron saint of Georgia. Special Penguin 15:07, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

The saint george flag was founded by a georgian king in the 5th century. The Jerusalm crosses were added later because of the Crusades Georgia joined then —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.196.53.215 (talk) 10:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Naval Ensign[edit]

The naval ensign (left) looks rather like the design of a rarely used flag of Great Britain (right). --Rumping (talk) 19:31, 9 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Stupid question, but I'm curious.[edit]

If a country named "Flag of Georgia" will ever exist, what will the title of this article be? — Andreyyshore (talk) 16:40, 5 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It would be called: "flag of Georgia (national flag)" --151.63.214.251 (talk) 12:36, 5 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

confused state of "medieval" connections[edit]

The questions are the following:

did George V actually adopt the Jerusalem cross, and if so, what is our evidence for this?
does this have anything to do with the flag shown for Sivas (Savasto) in the Spanish "Book of All Kingdoms"? If so, what is the connection, seeing as Sivas was never part of the kingdom of Georgia?
when the current flag was designed in the early 1990s, were the people who made the flag aware of these supposed medieval connections? Or were they simply pointed out later by vexillologists? What is the earliest reference to the post-1991 flag? Adoption by the United National Movement dates to c. 1999. Kldiashvili wrote a "History of the Georgian heraldry" in 1997. So what we are looking for is information from Kldiashvili, and if possible information on the period of 1991 to 1997.

--dab (𒁳) 10:24, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I think I got this. The solution:

the flag design appears in the 1367 Pizzigani chart as the flag of Tbilisi
whoever came up with the 1990s flag was obviously inspired by this
the tapering of the crosses are not historical and are presumably a 1990s reference to the "Bolnisi cross" of the Georgian church
the entire tangent on the Book of All Kingdoms and on Sivas is just a red herring, a mistake introduced by a document by one Giorgi Gabeskiria taken offline long ago but cited by the online sources we used for building this article.
the actual reference is Kldiashvili (1997), who points out the flag's design being based on the Pizzigani chart, and who suggests (presumably as a bona fide academic hypothesis) that the reason for the Jerusalem cross appearing as the flag of Tbilisi. I cannot judge whether this is plausible. 14th-century armorials tended to make up all kinds of stuff, and this may be little more than a baseless attempt to save the flag's "historicity". But at least we have a reference.

--dab (𒁳) 11:03, 14 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Red colour[edit]

I'm trying to collect data to unify Georgian heraldry tincture. I don't understand, where is the correct definition of the red colour code. In the article it is Pantone 485 C (#FF0000), but at Vexilla-mundi it is 185C (#e4002bff) and 186C (#c8102eff) on crwflags. Britannica says that the national colour still cherry red and the flag on their picture have #e8122fff. The national COA has #e40000ff. Many of other SVG flags of other cities and disticts has #ed3338ff and other colours. Maybe someone can help me with this? Plaga med (talk) 13:05, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, now I see it https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brdzanebuleba_31.pdf. But unification of other symbols still needed. Plaga med (talk) 13:52, 2 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]