Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic Flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic The flag of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic (country) was adopted by the Georgian SSR on April 11, 1951. The flag was designed by the artist Severian Maysashvili Davidovich (1900–1980). On the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Georgian SSR in which the new national flag was adopted with the description: It was the only Union Republic flag in which the hammer and sickle was not gold in colour. Before 1937 the flag was red with the Georgian characters სსსრ ("SSSR") in gold in the top-left corner. Between 1922
Flag of Wales form of the Draco standards borne by the Roman cavalry, itself inspired by the symbols of the Dacians or Parthians. The Olm (Proteus anguinus) of Slovenia bear a similarity in miniature to the Draco standard and they are referred to as baby cave dragons by the locals. The green and white stripes of the flag were additions by the House of Tudor, the Welsh dynasty that held the English throne from 1485 to 1603. Green and white are also the colours of the leek, another national emblem of Wales. The oldest known use of the dragon to represent Wales is