^{This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website}

Kareli (Municipality, Georgia)

ქარელი

Flag and arms of Kareli - Images communicated by The State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia, 23 February 2012

Presentation of Kareli
Flag of Kareli
Tigvi (under foreign occupation)

See also:

Georgia

Presentation of Kareli

The town of Kareli (c. 7,200 inhabitants in 2002) is located in Shida Kartli, located on the right bank of river Mtkvari (Kura), 100 km west of Tbilisi. The town's environs are a home to several architectural monuments of medieval Georgia such as the churches of Zghuderi, Samtsevrisi, Ruisi, and Kintsvisi, and the fortress of Ortubani (Dzama).
Kareli was first mentioned, as a village owned by the Tsitsishvili noble family, in documents dated 1715. Kareli was granted the status of a town under the Soviet government in 1981.

Jens Pattke, 21 April 2011

Flag of Kareli

The flag and arms of Kareli are prescribed by Decree No. 38, adopted on 30 December 2010 by the Municipal Council.

The flag is red with two sceptres crossed per saltire, cantonned with 1. and 3. A "Georgian" cross patty, 2. A crown and 4. A branch of oak with three leaves and two acorns; all the charges are yellow.
The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, "Gules two sceptres crossed per saltire, cantonned with 1. and 3. A cross patty, 2. A crown and 4. A branch of oak leaved of three and fructed of two, all or. The shield surmounted by a three-towered mural crown argent fimbriated sable. Under the shield a scroll argent fimbriated sable charged with the name of the town in Georgian capital letters sable".

The two sceptres represent the temporal (king's, with a fleur-de-lis as finial) and spiritual (patriarch's, with a cross as finial) powers. The crown belonged to King St. David the Builder (1073-1125, crowned in 1089). The greatest ruler of medieval Georgia, David defeated in 1121 the Seljuk Turks in the Battle of Didgori and expelled them from Georgia; he reunited the country, reformed the army and the administration, and promoted the Georgian Orthodox Church.

Source: The State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia (website).

Ivan Sache, 31 May 2012

Tigvi

Flag and arms of Tigvi - Images communicated by The State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia, 27 February 2012

Tigvi is currently under foreign occupation.

The flag and arms of Tigvi are prescribed by Decree No. 2, adopted on 24 May 2010 by the Municipal Council (in exile).

The flag is red with a white bow and arrow pointing to the hoist, with a square white canton, in size 1/3 of the flag's hoist, charged with a red "Georgian" cross patty.
The flag is a banner of the municipal arms, "Gules a bow and an arrow argent a canton of the same charged with a cross patty of the first. The shield surmounted by a one-towered mural crown argent fimbriated sable. Under the shield a scroll argent fimbriated sable charged with the name of the town in Georgian capital letters sable".

Source: The State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia (website).

Ivan Sache, 27 February 2012