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Hydra Flag

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Hydra Flag

Red and blue, with a cross and an anchor: the revolutionary flag of Hydra

This flag has a broad red border around a dark blue field. On the blue stand a white cross and a white anchor wound with a green snake, a long yellow spear with a red flag flying from it, and in the upper left corner a yellow sun with rays and an eye. A white crescent at the foot carries the motto Η ΤΑΝ Η ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ.

The flag of the War of Independence

Flags of the World, quoting the book Hellenic Flags, describes the flag designed in Hydra during the Greek War of Independence as blue with a red border, with a white crescent, cross and spear, a red flag flying from the spear, a white anchor upside down fouled by a green snake, and a quarter of a yellow sun with the eye of God in the upper left corner. It adds that the municipality uses the historical flag of the island, with the eye of God either in white on blue or in blue on white.

With it or on it

The motto is written in Dorian, the Greek dialect spoken by the ancient Spartans, and means «With it or on it». According to a legend, a Spartan mother gave her young son his shield on his way to war and told him: come back bringing it back, or come back on it, dead. Today the sentence is used on several flags of Greek military units.

The island of the shipowners

Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands, between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. Its naval and commercial development began in the 17th century, and in the 19th century it was home to some 125 boats and 10,000 sailors. From 1770 Hydra was the main port of insurrected Greece, with a population peaking at more than 20,000. On 8 September 1822 the joint fleets of Hydra, Psara and Spetses defeated the Ottoman Navy near Spetses.

Who chooses it

For anyone from Hydra or the Saronic Islands, for those who live far away and carry their island with them, for the Municipality, its offices and civic ceremonies, for schools, associations and clubs, for sailors and holiday-makers who fell in love with the island, for collectors of flags of the Greek War of Independence and for those who love the motto «Come back with it or on it». We sew it to order, in the size and fabric you choose above, and you see the delivery date before you pay.

Flag facts

Official name
Ύδρα
Validity
Historical
Years in use
unknown · period 1800–1899
Type
Civic
ISO code
GR-I

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