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Standard bearing
the figures of lions
(Trialeti. 2nd millennium BC)
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Standard (Bolnisi Sioni Cathedral. 5th
century)
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Royal standard of
King George III
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Standard (similar
to Judaic aethode)
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Silver top ornament
of the Royal Standard of Queen Rusudan (daughter
of Queen Tamar “the Great”). 12th century.
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Modern
reconstruction of the top ornament of the Royal Standard of Queen Rusudan
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The battle flag of
Svaneti also known as “the lion flag” (Being filled by the air it took the
shape of a lion)
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Silver top
ornament of “the Lion Flag” of Svanetia.
12th
century.
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The battle flag
of Mtiuleti (with the bell at the end)
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Flag bearing the
image of St.George (light pink)
![http://www.heraldicum.ru/gruzia/images/vahus1.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image021.gif)
Flag bearing the
image of St. Michael the Archangel
(pink
with red lining)
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Royal flag (light
green) bearing the Coat of Arms of the Bagration
House (18th century)
FLAGS
OF GEORGIAN STATES AND PROVINCES
(18th century)
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Flag of Kartli (red, brown lining).
Image: star with
a halo over the symbols of military and civil authorities - the lion and
ox, severed with a sword and sceptre.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner10.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image026.gif)
Flag of Kakheti (pink, red lining).
Image: winged
gelding - Pegasus, with a flag under a crown, the flagpole ends with a
cross. The horse is an ancient religious symbol – an element of the solar
cycle.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner3.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image027.gif)
Flag of Imereti (greenish-blue, pale yellow lining).
Image: deer with
a cross between the antlers under a crown. Beneath the crown, a crescent,
perhaps, a sign of lunar cult.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner13.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image028.gif)
Flag of Guria (dark pink, yellow lining).
Image: deer under
the shining star. Deer symbolizes the Divine goodness. It came from pagan
symbolism to the Christian one)
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![Файл:Знамя Мегрелии.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image029.gif)
Flag of Odishi-Megrelia (light brown, dark brown lining).
Image: boar with
a flag bearing abird and four stars in the
corners. Boar is a symbol of fertility, the bird stands for a Heavenly
messenger, the stars are the symbols of the Sun.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner1.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image030.gif)
Flag of Abkhazia –
Abkhazeti (pale green, red lining).
Image: goat under the symbol of three crescents,
whose meaning is unknown. Goat, apparently, is a totem.
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Flag of Samtskhe Saatabago (green,
blue lining).
Image: recumbent
bull with the flag bearing the sword and two black stars.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner6.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image032.gif)
Flag of Svaneti (blue, red lining).
Image: bear with
the mountains at the background. Bear originates from the ancient religious
traditions of the Svan people, as a symbol of
mountaineers.
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![http://www.hrono.ru/heraldicum/flagi/gruzia/images/banner11.gif](Wadbolski_E3_files/image033.gif)
Flag of Ovseti – Ossetia (pink, pink lining).
Image: panther
with the mountains at the background.
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Flag of Armenia
under Georgian suzerainty
(pale green, pink lining).
Image: panther
holding a spear under the crown and the sun
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![Исторические флаги Грузии](Wadbolski_E3_files/image036.gif)
Flag of Shirvan under Georgian suzerainty
(yellow, blue lining).
Image: wild goat with
a swallow-tailed flag bearing a rosette that symbolizes the sun. Rosette
shape resembles diagonal crosses of the Bronze Age.
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![Исторические флаги Грузии](Wadbolski_E3_files/image037.gif)
Flag of Ran under
Georgian suzerainty
(pale green, brown lining).
Image: spider,
sitting in a blue square with a red border. Spider is perceived as a symbol
of hard work and industriousness.
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OTHER
STANDARDS AND COLOURS (INCL. THE LATER ONES)
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Silver top
ornament of the Princely standard of Constantine Mukhran-Batoni
(18th century)
Image: St. George fighting the dragon in the middle
of the cross. Both sides of the ornament bear inscriptions.
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![](Wadbolski_E3_files/image041.jpg)
![](Wadbolski_E3_files/image043.jpg)
Sample forms of
Georgian standards of the 18th century
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Royal standard of
King Solomon I of Imereti
(reconstruction based
on the sketches of Jean Mourier)
The standard mysteriously
disappeared in 1883. Before that it was kept in Khoni
monastery.
Image: St. George
with a sword and shield. The top ornament had a form of a cross.
Unfortunately, Mourier did not specify the colors
of the standard.
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![](Wadbolski_E3_files/image047.jpg)
Regimental colours
of Georgian Mounted Militia (1854).
Later it became a
personal flag of Prince Ivan Amilakhvari.
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