 The first flag of the country, known as the Vergina Flag, featured the Vergina Sun, a symbol that had been discovered at Aigai, the first capital and burial ground of the ancient kings of Macedon.Greece considers the Vergina Sun to be a Greek symbol and imposed a year-long economic embargo in order to force the then "Republic of Macedonia" to remove it from its flag, resulting in the current design.The new eight-rayed sun represents the "new sun of Liberty" referred to in "Denes nad Makedonija", the national anthem of North Macedonia.