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Greek state TV

ERT: http://news.ert.gr/el/21953-ellada.htm "Ελλάδα ... σύνθημα: Ελευθερία η Θάνατος"

Greek embassies

Ambassade de Grèce Greek Embassy at France official site:

Maxime du pays : « La Liberté ou la Mort ».

Embajada de Grecia en Madrid Greek Embassy at Spain:

the motto is explanatory inscribed on the flag.

Consulat de Grèce à Grenoble http://consulat.grece.isere.free.fr/page.php?page=echos/echo31&lg=fr (about the meaning of the stripes)

official EU

European Parliament: Greece country fact sheet Motto: Liberty or Death

Belgium

Prime minster of Belgium Guy Verhofstadt addresses the prime minister of Greece: http://www.internationalpresscentre.be/archive/other/103276/?lang=nl&prLang=fr http://www.presscenter.org/repository/news/103/nl/103276-nl.pdf Ce n'est pas un hasard si la devise de la Grèce est encore toujours: eleftería i thanatos; la liberté ou la mort English:It is not out of chance that the motto of Greece continues to be: eleftheria i thanatos; liberty or death


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

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

flag experts
reference sites
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
ethnologist sources

Eastern Europe p.846 by Richard Frucht (books) :the most important national symbol of Greece is the Greek national flag... ...the use of the nine stripes is deliberate, each stripe representing one of the nine syllables of the revolutionary phrase Eleutheria e Thanatos which served as a motto of determination for liberation from Ottoman rule.

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(just for indication)

other organizations

FIFA http://www.fifa.com/associations/association=gre/countryInfo.html

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

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

National Anthem

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(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)

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

During national celebrations of Greece

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(not exactly reliable sources, just links)

25th March
St George day
1940

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

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Captain Michalis by Kazantzakis
Karagiozis
Greek poems

Greek Books

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  • Nea Hestia, το παραδοσιακό από το 19ο αιώνα εθνεγερτικό σύνθημα: Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος
  • Google book search for εθνικό σύνθημα "Ελευθερία ή Θάνατος"

http://books.google.com/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&q=%CE%B5%CE%B8%CE%BD%CE%B9%CE%BA%CF%8C+%CF%83%CF%8D%CE%BD%CE%B8%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B1+%C2%AB%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%B8%CE%B5%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1+%CE%AE+%CE%B8%CE%AC%CE%BD%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%82%C2%BB&sa=N&start=20

Foreign News

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