 Flag ratio: 3:5 The flag of Cyprus was adopted on August 16, 1960. It features a map of the entirety of the island, with two olive branches below (a symbol of peace) on white (another symbol of peace). It is the only country to display its land area on its official flag. The map on the flag is a copper-yellow color, symbolizing the large deposits of copper ore on the island (chiefly in the form of chalcopyrite, which is yellow in color). Image File history File links Flag_of_Cyprus. ...
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FIAV usage code 63. ...
August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ...
1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Olive branch is a colloquial term referring to a concession or a gesture of peace, as well as a peace symbol. ...
White is a color, (more accurately it contains all the colors of the visible spectrum and is sometimes described as an achromatic color—black is the absence of color) that has high brightness but zero hue. ...
General Name, Symbol, Number copper, Cu, 29 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 11, 4, d Appearance metallic brown Atomic mass 63. ...
Iron ore (Banded iron formation) Manganese ore Lead ore Gold ore An ore is a volume of rock containing components or minerals in a mode of occurrence which renders it valuable for mining. ...
Chalcopyrite is a copper iron sulfide mineral that crystallizes in the tetragonal system. ...
The flag of Cyprus was selected by the President of the Republic, Makarios III, in 1960 after a proposal made by a Turkish Cypriot school teacher, Ismet Guney, who brought him a message from the Vice-President Fazil Küçük. Makarios (born Mihalis Christodoulou Mouskos, August 13, 1913—August 3, 1977) was archbishop and primate of the autocephalous Cypriot Orthodox Church (1950-1977) and first President of the Republic of Cyprus (1960-1977). ...
Turkish Cypriots are those inhabitants of Cyprus who are ethnically Turkish, as opposed to those who are of Greek (the Greek Cypriots) or other ethnicities. ...
Dr Fazil Küçük (1906-1984) was the first and only Turkish Cypriot Vice President of the 1960 Republic of Cyprus. ...
Blue and red (the colours of the flag of Greece and the flag of Turkey) were deliberately avoided in an attempt to make the flag "neutral", but today the flag is often used only by the Greek Cypriots. Flag Ratio: 2:3 The Flag of Greece is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. ...
Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Turkey consists of a white crescent and star on a red background. ...
Greek Cypriot refers to the Greek-speaking population of Cyprus. ...
The flags of India and Ireland (both of which used orange, green and white), and the flag of Bosnia-Herzegovina were also intended as flags of peace among communities but ended up being identified with one side. Flag Ratio: 1:2 The flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina contains a wide medium blue vertical band on the fly side with a yellow isosceles triangle abutting the band and the top of the flag. ...
Specifications The map of the island comprises 44% of the flag. The colour of the map is copper (Pantone 144-C). Both the crest and the two olive-tree leaves are olive green (Pantone 336-C). The background is white. Ratio: 3:5
Flags produced on Cyprus often differ from the original specifications, both regarding the size of the map and the colours used. The government announced in October 2005, that it would take steps to "start from scratch" and assure that only flags complying with the official specifications would be produced.[1] 2005 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December- → Deaths in October 28: Richard Smalley 26: Emil Kyulev 24: José Azcona del Hoyo 24: Rosa Parks 23: Stella Obasanjo 22: Liam Lawlor 22: Shirley Horn 20: Endon Mahmood 17: Ba Jin 10: Milton Obote 7: Charles...
Cyprus Constitution for the Cyprus flag ARTICLE 4 of the Cyprus Constitution refers to the Cyprus flag:
“1. The Republic shall have its own flag of neutral design and colour, chosen jointly by the President and the Vice-President of the Republic.
2. The authorities of the Republic and any public corporation or public utility body created by or under the laws of the Republic shall fly the flag of the Republic and they shall have the right to fly on holidays together with the flag of the Republic both the Greek and the Turkish flags at the same time.
3. The Communal authorities and institutions shall have the right to fly on holidays together with the flag of the Republic either the Greek or the Turkish flag at the same time.
4. Any citizen of the Republic or any body, corporate or unincorporate other than public, whose members are citizens of the Republic, shall have the right to fly on their premises the flag of the Republic or the Greek or the Turkish flag without any restriction”.
Proposed national flag Under the terms of the Annan Plan, a new national flag would have been adopted by a reconstituted confederal republic of Cyprus. Unlike the current official flag, this version consciously incorporates colours representing Greece (blue) and Turkey (red) alongside a large copper-yellow band for Cyprus; the heraldric blazon is per fess Azure and Gules, charged with a Spanish fess Or fimbriated Argent. It is likely that any future Cyprus settlement will include the adoption of a new flag. Image File history File links Proposed_flag_of_the_United_Cyprus_Republic. ...
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The Annan Plan was a rejected United Nations proposal to bring about the reunification of the divided island nation of Cyprus as the United Cyprus Republic. ...
The Annan Plan was a United Nations proposal to bring about the reunification of the divided island nation of Cyprus as the United Cyprus Republic. ...
The Annan Plan was a United Nations proposal to bring about the reunification of the divided island nation of Cyprus as the United Cyprus Republic. ...
Heraldry is the science and art of designing, displaying, describing and recording coats of arms and badges, as well as the formal ceremonies and laws that regulate the use and inheritance of arms. ...
This is an article about Heraldry. ...
The flag of Spain The flag of Lebanon In vexillology, a Spanish fess is a term occasionally used to describe the central horizontal stripe of a tricolour or triband flag that is twice the width of the stripes on either side of it. ...
See also TRNC Flag The flag of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is the Turkish flag, except that the colors of the objects and background are reversed, and the white background also has two red stripes at the top and bottom. ...
Flag Ratio: 2:3 The Flag of Greece is based on nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white. ...
Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Turkey consists of a white crescent and star on a red background. ...
The Unification Flag is used to represent all of Korea when North and South Korea participate together in sporting events. ...
The 1996 proposal for the flag of the Republic of Taiwan, designed by the Rev. ...
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