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Popular Association - Golden Dawn (Political party, Greece)

Presentation of Golden Dawn
Golden Dawn flags with the meander
Golden Dawn flag with an archaic epsilon letter
Use of Greek flags by Golden Dawn
Flags with the Celtic Cross used by Golden Dawn

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Greece

Presentation of Golden Dawn

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Popular Association - Golden Dawn (Λαϊκός Σύνδεσμος – Χρυσή Αυγή) is the biggest extreme-rightist organization in Greece (Wikipedia).
Golden Dawn ceased to exist as the separate organization in December 2005, having merged into the Patriotic Alliance (Πατριωτική Συμμαχία), which used different symbols (Wikipedia). In January 2007, the Patriotic Alliance ceased to exist and in March same year, Golden Dawn announced its re-activation. Since then, the website of Golden Dawn has been regularly updated and its new content shows the use of the organization's flags. The same is true for the site/blog of the Youth Front, the youth wing of the organization.

Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

Golden Dawn flags with the meander

2012 sightings

Flags used by Golden Dawn in 2010 - Images by Tomislav Todorović, 28 October 2012

Flas seen in 2012 have a black field charged with a smaller meander within a wreath, between the full official name of the party, all in golden yellow (photo). Similar, red flags with white emblem and inscription, were also reported (photo, photo, photo, photo, photo, photo).

Tomislav Todorović, 28 October 2012

2010 sightings

Flags used by Golden Dawn in 2010 - Images by Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2012

By early 2010, two new flags with the meander have appeared. One of them, quite rarely used, has a large white meander, with outer white and inner blue fimbriations, on blue field (photo, no longer available). The design is almost identical, except the field and inner fimbriation color, with that of a flag already in use.
Another flag also has blue field and is charged with a smaller meander within a wreath, between the full official name of the party, all in white;. This flag was best visible on many photos (no longer available).

Tomislav Todorović, 15 February 2012

2007 sightings

Flags used by Golden Dawn from 2007 onwards - Images by Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

The red flag with the black meander is still the most used flag of Golden Dawn after its re-activation. On photos (no longer available), only the meander seems to be larger than before.
A new flag, not used before 2007, has a large white meander, with outer white and inner red fimbriations, on red field. It can be seen on photos (no longer available).

Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

Pre-2005 sightings

Flags used by Golden Dawn until 2005 - Images by Thanos Tzikas, 10 July 2003 (left) and modified by Tomislav Todorović & Mladen Mijatov, 27 February 2006 (right)

The black flag with the red meander reported by Thanos Tzikas from a photo of a speech of the party is probably an unofficial version. According to Wikipedia, the official flag has the red field with the black meander, fimbriated white, while the logotype is a black shield, with the white inner and black outer fimbriations and charged with the white meander. That was the only flag with the meander which I saw at the website of Golden Dawn, whose content is currently very reduced and most of the previously numerous photos are not available now.

Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

Unconfirmed sightings

Possible flag of Golden Dawn - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

Two images (no longer available) show a black flag with a white meander, but these are not photos, so this design shall be considered just a "flagoid" (possible flag) for now.

Tomislav Todorović, 23 October 2008

Golden Dawn flag with an archaic epsilon letter

Flag of Golden Dawn - Image by Tomislav Todorović, 16 February 2012

A new flag (photo, no longer available), introduced in 2011, is charged with a large letter epsilon within a wreath, all black with white fimbriations, on a dark red field. The letter is in an archaic-style typeface which Golden Dawn frequently uses, especially on the demonstration posters or flyers.
The wreath, similar to the one which appears on a flag with the meander (see above), and is sometimes used with the meander as well, although not on the flags yet, as shown on a demonstration poster (image no longer available).
The exact meaning of the letter epsilon is yet to be determined, but it probably stands either for Ellas (Greece) or ethnos (nation), or maybe ethnikismos (nationalism), or - most probably - for all of these words.

It is not easy to determine the exact shade of color, which seems to vary between R+ (dark, rarely) and R++ (very dark, mostly), but also frequently inclines towards burgundy or even purple. The fact that the photos generally look as if made under unappropriate lighting conditions is also a disadvantage. On the other hand, large images (no longer available) of this flag, and a video clip use a color which would be best described as R+++, with no inclinations in direction of purple. Anyway, until a number of photos with better quality appear, the color R++ may make a good approximation, especially when compared with the party flags which use the color R; the comparison may also work for the above photos which show all of these flags together.

Tomislav Todorović, 16 February 2012

Use of Greek flags by Golden Dawn

Until 2005, both versions of Greek national flag were used, but the plain cross flag seemed to be used a bit more than the one with the cross and stripes. The plain cross flag seems to be increasingly used with proportions 1:1, like that of the naval jack.

The Byzantine flag used by the Greek Orthodox Church was also frequently used (photo, no longer available), but the flag with the same charges and the reverted colours (image, no longer available) does not seem to have been seen outside the online shop. The flag with the black eagle on the red field (image, no longer available) was, however, often used (actually shown only on a book cover [image, no longer available] at the online shop). There seems to have been a similar flag, with a gold eagle on the red field (not sold by the online shop), but none of the images from the site of the organization were showing it clearly enough for a better description. The plain cross flag of Greece with the black eagle overall (image, no longer available) (flag of Northern Epirus) also seems not to have been seen outside the Web shop.

From 2007 onwards, both versions of Greek national flag are still widely used, but the Byzantine flag of the Greek Orthodox Church and its derivations seem to have fallen out of use. The only exception is the plain cross flag of Greece with the black eagle overall; its variant currently used can be seen on photos ( no longer available) and on a detailed image.
A plain black flag, typical for the Anarchists, but increasingly used by the ultra-rightists in many countries, is shown on an image (no longer available). Like the two other flags from the same image, it is not confirmed on any photo, so it shall also be considered a "flagoid" for now.

Tomislav Todorović, 16 February 2012