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A flag is a piece of fabric, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used symbolically for signaling or identification. It is most commonly used to symbolize a country. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag, or to its depiction in another medium.The first flags were used to assist military coordination on battlefields, and flags have since evolved into a general tool for rudimentary signaling and identification, especially in environments where communication is similarly challenging such as the maritime environment where semaphore is used.
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| |  | | | | National flags are potent patriotic symbols with varied wide-ranging interpretations, often including strong military associations due to their original and ongoing military uses. Flags are also used in messaging, advertising, or for other decorative purposes. The study of flags is known as vexillology, from the Latin vexillum meaning flag or banner The usage of flags spread from India and China, where they were almost certainly invented, to neighboring Burma, Siam, and southeastern Asia.The Persians used Derafsh Kaviani as the flag, at the time of Achaemenian dynasty at 550–330 B.C. Afterwards it was used in different look by the late Sassanid era 224-651. It was also representative of the Sassanid state Ērānshāhr, the "Kingdom of Iran" and may so be considered to have been the first "national flag" of Iran.Originally, the standards of the Roman legions were not flags, but symbols such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion; this graphic of the eagle would be placed on a staff for the standard-bearer to hold up during battle. But a military unit from Dacia had for a standard a dragon with a flexible tail which would move in the wind citation needed; the legions copied this, and eventually all the legions had physically flexible standards the modern-day flag citation needed. | |
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| Country Bahamas Flags | | Commonwealth of the Bahamas, The Bahamas Official Name: Commonwealth of The Bahamas Capital: Nassau Location: Caribbean Government Type: Constitutional Monarchy Queen Elizabeth II Flag adopted: 10 July 1973 Coat of arms adopted: 7 December 1971 Designer: Hervis Bain | | (Search Results Commonwealth of the Bahamas ) | Allsorts Flags
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| Canadian National Flags | | The Canadian National Flag was adopted by the Canadian Parliament on October 22, 1964 and was proclaimed into law by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II the Queen of Canada on February 15, 1965. The Canadian Flag colloquially known as The Maple Leaf Flagt | | (Search Results Canada Flags ) | Allsorts Flags
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| Demark National Flags | | The Danish flag is called "Dannebrog", which is old Danish for "The Danish Cloth"..
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| The Egypian Flags | | Egypt Description: Horizontally divided red-white-black flag with the emblem showing the so-called eagle of Saladin in the middle of the white stripe | | (Search Results Egypt Flags) | Allsorts Flags
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| France National Flags | | French Republic, Republique française Flag adopted, as an ensign, by Decree of 27 Pluviose of the Year II 15 February 1794 Proportion: 2:3 Description: Vertically divided blue white-red Use: on land, as the national civil and state French flag | | (Search Results Flags French ) | Allsorts Flags
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| Grenada National Flags | | The yellow star on a red disc stands for the Borough of St George’s, Grenada’s capital, and the other six stars stand for the remaining six parishes St. Andrew, St. David, St. John, St. Mark, St. Patrick, and the Grenadines. | | (Search Results Grenada Flag) | Allsorts Flags
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| National Hungary Flag | | Magyarország, Magyar Köztársaság, Republic of Hungary Official Name: Republic of Hungary Magyar Koztarsasag
Capital: Budapest Location: Central Europe Government Type: Republic Flag adopted: 1957 First used 1848
Coat of Arms adopted: 1990 First used XII-XIII C | | (Search Results Hungary Flags ) | Allsorts Flags
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| Flags Country Iceland | | The flag has been official since 1915. The traditional colours of Iceland are blue and white; to those were added red, combined showing a historical connection to Norway. The cross in the flag symbolises the Scandinavian connection. From the 16th century until 1944 Iceland was represented in the Danish national arms; until 1903 by a crowned stockfish, a dried codfish sans head, and 1903-44 by a falcon
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| Jamaican National Flags | | The symbolism of the colours is: yellow, sunshine and natural resources; black, the burdens borne by the people; green, agriculture and hope for the future. "Burdens and hardships there may be, but we have hope and the sun still shines. | | (Search Results Jamaica Flags) | Allsorts Flags
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| Luxembourg National Flags | | Luxemburg, Lëtzebuerg At the Congress of Vienna in 1814-1815, when the Kingdom of the Netherlands was founded, King William I of Orange Nassau also received Luxembourg as a compensation for the loss of the Nassau lands in Germany Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
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| Country Mali Flags | | Mali The first flag of Mali was adopted on 4 April, 1959, when French Sudan and Senegal formed the Mali Federation. This federation became independent on 20 June, 1960 | | (Search Results Mali Flags) | Allsorts Flags
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| The Philippines Flags | | The symbols on the white triangle of the Philippine flag are an eight rayed sun and three stars in gold. The sun represents the dawning of a new era of self determination that was desired in 1897 when the flag was first designed after the Spanish American war and the US promise of independence, which was granted in 1946
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| | | During the Middle Ages, flags were used for a variety of purposes including: identification of members of nobility, guilds, cities, religious worship, and for use during battles. In battle, flags were used by military companies for identification on the field and relaying of strategic instructions. Though not always, flags could identify individual leaders: in Europe, monarchs and knights; in Japan, the samurai; in China, the generals under the imperial army; and in Mexico, the Aztec alliances.From the era of sailing vessels onwards, it has been customary and later a legal requirement for ships to carry flags designating their nationality; these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today. Flags also became the preferred means of communications at sea, resulting in various systems of flag signals; see, International maritime signal flags.As European knights were replaced by centralized armies, flags became the means to identify not just nationalities but also individual military units. Flags became objects to be captured or defended. Eventually these flags posed too much of a practical danger to those carrying them, and by World War I these were withdrawn from the battlefields, and have since been used only at ceremonial occasions | | |
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