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Kipriaki Dimokratia [Kipros], Kibris Cumhuriyeti

Flag and coat of arms adopted 16 August 1960.
Proportion: 3:5
Description: White field with a golden map of the island with two olive branchs below.
Use: on land, national and civil flag, at sea, national and civil ensign.

Colour official specifications (as given in Album des Pavillons [pay00]):

Yellow: Pantone 144 c
Green: Pantone 336 c
which translate approximately in the CMYK system as follows:

Yellow: CMYK (%) C 0 - M 50 - Y 100 - K 0
Green: CMYK (%) C 100 - M 0 - Y 65 - K 40

Origin and meaning of the flag
The flag of Cyprus was selected by the President of the Republic, Mgr Makarios, in 1960 after a proposal made by a school teacher who brought him a message from the Vice-President Fazil Kucuk.

Source: SAVA Newsletter [sav] #27.

Jaume Olle, 24 January 2001

The colours were intentionally chosen: white flag was chosen for the young Cyprus as a sign of peace among the two antagonistic communities living there (Turks and Greeks). The map of the island is golden/yellow, for the sake of easier reproduction of what was originally intended to be a colour of copper (symbol Cu), a metal that got its name from the island name. Most probably, since there is no brownish-reddish-copper colour in heraldry, the map was changed to golden. Green olive tree branches stand for peace, again.

Zeljko Heimer, 12 November 1998

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The yellow-copper colour
Pedersen [ped70] just calls it yellow. Smith [smi77], too. Pedersen's recent book [udk98a] says that copper is the proper colour, and yellow is the usual. (my translation from Danish).

Ole Andersen 29 July 1999

Using dark yellow (Y+ in our colour guide) gives the shade of yellow that is appropriate enough to the real flags used in Cyprus and in other places when Cypriot flag is needed. The color is not exactly the "copper brown", but that are nither the shades used on the real Cypriot flags, as far as I know.

Zeljko Heimer 30 July 1999

The Ancient Greeks got most of their copper from the island, and the Romans imported a good deal as well. The Greek word for copper (from which the English is derived) actually means "Cyprus metal".

Mike Oettle, 14 December 2001

According to Petit Larousse Illustre, the French word cuivre is derived from Latin cyprium aes, Cyprus bronze.

Ivan Sache, 17 December 2001

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