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This list includes flags that either have been in use or are currently used by France, French Overseas Collectivites, the Sui Generis Collectivity and the French Overseas Territory. The French Society of Vexillology is the authority on the flying of flags in France and maintains the only official register of flags for the country. [ 1 ]
Flag of the Ottoman Tunisia: A 5 horizontal striped banner with 2 blue strip, 2 red and 1 green. The right edge of the flag is partially scalloped. 1827–1881: Flag of the Beylik of Tunis: A red field with a centered white sun–disc containing a red five–pointed star surrounded by a red crescent. 1827–1881: Flag of the Bey of Tunis
Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919 This is a collection of lists of flags , including the flags of states or territories , groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries.
The flags with the French flag in the canton, which on many occasions were already existing flags without the tricolour, resembled the British colonial flags, which originated as defacements of the British ensigns, which have the British Union Jack in the canton, and a red, white or blue fly.
French Guiana: 1643 1790 1794 1830 1958 1976 2010 French Guiana: French Polynesia: 1643 1790 1794 1814 1830 1976 1984 French Polynesia: Gibraltar: 1704 1801 1875 1921 1939 1982 Gibraltar: Greenland: 1606 1989 Greenland: Guernsey: 1801 1890 1936 1985 Guernsey: Hong Kong: 1843 1871 1876 1941 1945 1955 1959 1997 Hong Kong: Isle of Man: 1801 1932 ...
Yet Tunisian units fought again. By November 1942 the French forces in Tunisia were active on the Allied side. [195] Tunisian troops under the French flag then fought the German and Italian army in Tunisia. Later Tunisian units joined the Allied invasion of Italy, entering Rome; they then fought in the liberation of France.
This is an incomplete list of the names and nicknames of flags, organized in alphabetical order by flag name. Very few flags have any truly official names, but some unofficial names are so widely used that they are accepted as a flag's universal name.
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.