User:Shadowmorph/Eleftheria i thanatos

Sources

academic texts, educational material

Nations and States in Southeast Europe - CDRSEE, Pg 99. (in the section "National Symbols")

usage in official greek emblems and insignia

• Cited in this book: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΕΣ ΣΗΜΑΙΕΣ. Σήματα-Εμβλήματα, Ελένη Κοκκώνη-Λαμπροπούλου. Εκδόσεις Ηλίας Κοκκώνης -

Αθήνα 1997. (GREEK FLAGS, Symbols-Emblems), Eleni Kokoni-Lampropoulou. Publisher Ilias Kokonis Athens 1997

• http://www.army.gr/multimedia/emblimata/html/94_sdi.html Hellenic Army

flag experts

• http://fotw.fivestarflags.com/gr_indep.html '...and the current national motto of Greece (+images of historical flags of Greece containing the motto)
• http://www.fotw.net/flags/gr.html This motto is now the national motto of Greece
• http://www.anyflag.com/country/greece.php "Freedom or Death" (the official motto of Greece)
• http://www.united-states-flag.com/world-greece.html "Greek national motto: "Freedom or Death"
• http://www.flagpictures.org/greece.htm "the Greek national motto: �Freedom or Death"
• http://flaggenlexikon.de/fgriech.htm "The nine stripes correspond to the nine syllables of the Greek battle-cry "Eleutheria i Thanatos" ("Freedom or Death"), or "Eu togio nika" ("be victorious in this sign"). Both mottos came down from the times of the struggle for freedom against the Turks"

reference sites

• National Motto: (Eleftheria i thanatos) "Freedom or Death", http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/europe/grsymbols.htm
• The Lincoln Highway National Museum & Archives: Hellenic Republic Motto: "Freedom or Death" - http://www.lincoln-highway-museum.org/What/300-Europe-Index.html
• Merriem Webster accepts the symbolisms of the stripes as representing "Freedom or Death": http://www.merriam-webster.com/cgi-bin/nytmaps.pl?greece

outside sources

• "Eleftheria i thanatos" ("Liberty or Death") is the national motto of Greece http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/State_motto_(New_Hampshire)/

Vatican

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS JOHN PAUL II TO THE NEW AMBASSADOR OF GREECE TO THE HOLY SEE: Your country’s motto, "My power is the love of my people. Freedom or death", bears perennial witness to the commitment of the Hellenic Republic to the defence of the universal principles on which genuine freedom is based.

books

• the national motto: freedom or death http://books.google.com/books?client=firefox-a&id=PIgYAAAAIAAJ&dq=freadom+or+death+motto+Greece&q=freedom+or+death+&pgis=1#search_anchor
• Page 119: the nation's motto Eleutheria 'e thanatos (Freedom or death) http://books.google.com/books?id=PaujfoUmHUsC&dq=%22freedom+or+death%22+Greece&lr=&client=firefox-a
• Page 635: loyal to the national slogan "Freedom or Death" http://books.google.com/books?lr=&client=firefox-a&id=eEkEAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22freedom+or+death%22+Greece&q=%22freedom+or+death%22&pgis=1#search_anchor
• Firefly World Factbook, Page 134: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&client=firefox-a&q=%22freedom+or+death%22+firefly+world+factbook&btnG=Search+Books
• "Nation Branding" list of mottos: http://books.google.com/books?lr=&client=firefox-a&q=nation+branding+%22Greece+freedom+or+death%22&btnG=Search+Books seems like it cites Wikipedia as a source

• Flag lore of all nations, p.40 http://books.google.com/books?id=EFhAUbH6ra0C&pg=PA40&lpg=PA40&dq=%22freedom+or+death%22+national+motto+of+Greece&source=bl&ots=bd8PHYgBnZ&sig=vndY1z6JtUnS3iDApXEcc6sfx1Q&hl=en&ei=EQYjSomdD8HGsgbv3dHQBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

External links

(just for indication)

appearance in historical Greek flags 1821-1833 (after declaration of independence)

• http://www.nhmuseum.gr/products8.php?lang=1&wh=1&the1id=1&the2id=7&the3id=69&theid=69&open1=1&open2=7&open3=69&page=1
• http://www.mailink.gr/high/products.php?id=19
• photos of original flags: http://bayimg.com/DaaoaAACB by User:SQRT5P1D2
• http://www.johnpap.net/not-el/eikShmaies/EllhnikesShmaiesKata.htm

appearance in Statues in Greece

http://www.geocities.com/bourdeka/images/IndDay/PPgermanos1.jpg

National Anthem

(essay)

The Greek state might not use Great Seals like the US but it has the national anthem of Greece as a state symbol[1] (the national anthem derives from the poem Hymn to Liberty, highly regarded as the Greek national poem). The presidency accepts the Rudyard Kipling translation of the first two verses as accurate and cites it[2]. That English translation of the poem contains the verse "Seeking Freedom or Death" (see wikisource)

“

Yet, behold now thy sons
With impetuous breath
Go forth to the fight
Seeking Freedom or Death.

” — Hymn to Liberty

, English translation by Rudyard Kipling

See also Greek wiki source verse 15 of 158, Ύμνος εις την Ελευθερίαν

During national celebrations of Greece

(not exactly reliable sources, just links)

25th March

• PASOK party: http://do.pasok.gr/nikaia_larisas/?p=84
• NATO speech p.19: http://www.nato.int/kfor/chronicle/2008/chronicle_04/chronicle_04.pdf
• http://mkka.blogspot.com/2009/03/25-1821.html
• http://www.apodimos.com/arthra/06/Apr/ORGANOSEIS_TON_APODHMON_KAI_O_LEYKOS_OIKOS_TIMISAN_TOYS_ELLHNES/index.htm
• http://viotiareader.blogspot.com/2009/03/blog-post.html
• KKE publication: http://www1.rizospastis.gr/wwwengine/story.do?id=1727530
• Cyprus http://www.mlsi.gov.cy/mlsi/mlsi.nsf/0/A6094A099D75BEF3C2256E8C0036A5B2/$file/04033001.pdf
• http://www.arsakeio.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=779:l-r&catid=122:2008-09-01-10-07-03&Itemid=302
• http://express.whereilive.com.au/news/story/freedom-or-death/
• Mikis Theodorakis speech: "«Ελευθερία ή θάνατος» γράφει με ματωμένα γράμματα το λάβαρο του ΄21 που εξακολουθεί να ανεμίζει πάνω απ’ τα κεφάλια μας ο Θεόδωρος Κολοκοτρώνης." [3]
• Parliament of New South Wales: http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/Prod/Parlment/HansArt.nsf/V3Key/LA20060406028
• Ontario, Canada: Freedom or Death, long live Greece, long live Canada http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache:1eknTxTJ3c0J:www.londongreekcommunity.org/images/March%25202006%2520Newsletter%2520EN1.doc+%22freedom+or+death%22+Greece+.gov&cd=135&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=firefox-a

St George day

• http://www.skifun.gr/forum/index.php?topic=462.0

• Photo

1940

Jews in Greek resistance http://hcc.haifa.ac.il/Departments/greece/events/holocaust_greece/bowman.pdf

Popular Culture

Karagiozis

• http://www.flickr.com/photos/61196782@N00/498007540
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/61196782@N00/498028359