#7978667 · 4 Jan 2008, 11:01 · · პროფილი · პირადი მიმოწერა · ჩატი
ეს კი იმათთვის, ვინც საქართველოს დროშას სააკაშვილთან აიგივებს. იქნებ წაიკითხოთ და შემდეგ მის დანახვაზე გიული ალასანია არ "შემიწუხოთ".
Brendan Koerner, in Slate, gives more details on the supposed origin of the new Georgian flag:
[...] The so-called five-cross flag, which dates back to Georgia's medievаl glory days, is the symbol of the main opposition party, Mikhail Saakashvili's National Movement. [...] A majority of Georgians, including the patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, have long favored adopting the five-cross banner as the nation's official flag. But the outgoing president stymied all efforts to make the change. In 1999, the Georgian Parliament voted to change the flag, and all Shevardnadze had to do was issue a supportive Decree. Inexplicably, he refused to do so, instead setting up a powerless Heraldic Commission to study the matter. When Saakashvili founded the National Movement in 2001, therefore, the five-cross flag was the natural choice to illustrate his party's populist bent.
The first mention of the five-cross design dates back to the middle of the XIVth century, when an unknown Franciscan monk wrote that the kingdom's flag was "a white-colored cloth with five red crosses." In prior centuries, Georgian kings had marched into battle brandishing a simpler flag, similar to the "St. George's cross" [...], a single red cross, on a white background. According to a vexillological history written by the Georgian scholar Giorgi Gabeskiria, the four extra crosses were likely added during the reign of Giorgi V (also known as "the Brilliant" or "the Splendid"), who drove out the Mongols. Around that time, Georgians founded several monasteries in the Holy Land and became widely known for their piety. The new design was ostensibly fashioned after the Jerusalem cross, a symbol used by crusaders there and adopted as a testament to Georgia's righteous reputation.
Giorgi Gabeskiria's statements are available online. He wrote:
The XIV century king's flag underwent significant changes. In The World Atlas made by an unknown Franciscan monk (1345-1350), the Georgian flag presented as "a white-coloured cloth with five red crosses. On the map made by Pizzigani brothers - Francisco and Domenico from Venice, the city of Tbilisi is shown as a three-towered fortress and above it - a white flag with five red crosses". ( D. Kldiashvili, History of the Georgian heraldry, Parlamentis utskebani, 1997; pp.30-31). What was the reason of adding four red crosses to the existing one on the white St. George flag? - The question is put and answered by D. Kldiashvili, who explains that after the king of Georgia - Giorgi the Brilliant succeeded in returning to Christiandom - the city of Jerusalem and the burial-ground of Christ, and won the esteemed statute of the Guard of the Lord's grave, the state flag was enriched with four small red crosses in the corners, as a replica to the heraldic composition of the "Jerusalem cross" (Ibidem, p.35)".
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