department of mathematics, brock university, st. catharines, on canada department of mathematics, institute for advanced studies in basic sciences, gava zang, zanjan, iranAbstract. Bi-Hamiltonian hierarchies of symplectically-invariant soliton equations are derived from geometric non-stretching flows of curves in the Riemannian symmetric spaces Sp(n+1)/Sp(1)×Sp(n) and SU (2n)/Sp(n). The derivation uses Hasimoto variables defined by a moving parallel frame along the curves. As main results, two new multi-component versions of the sine-Gordon (SG) equation and the modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation exhibiting Sp(1) × Sp(n − 1) invariance are obtained along with their bi-Hamiltonian integrability structure consisting of a hierarchy of symmetries and conservation laws generated by a hereditary recursion operator. The corresponding geometric curve flows in both Sp(n + 1)/Sp(1) × Sp(n) and SU (2n)/Sp(n) are shown to be described by a non-stretching wave map and a mKdV analog of a non-stretching Schrödinger map.8