Georgia marked the 105th anniversary of the declaration of the first independent democratic republic on May 26. In the capital, Tbilisi, there were official ceremonies and a flyover of military jets.

The 1956 flag: The Georgia state flag was changed Feb. 13, 1956, incorporating a Confederate battle emblem into the design, as a response to the Supreme Court rulings on desegregating schools.

TBILISI -- Georgian flags flew at half-staff as the nation marked the anniversary of the Red Army invasion of 1921, officially known as Soviet Occupation Day. The Democratic Republic of Georgia ...

The so-called five-cross flag, which dates back to Georgia’s medieval glory days, is the symbol of the main opposition party, Mikhail Saakashvili’s National Movement.