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The flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, Italian: [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to as The Tricolour (il Tricolore, Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]), is a flag featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by Article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. [1]
The need to precisely define the colours was born from an event that happened at the Justus Lipsius building, seat of the Council of the European Union, of the European Council and of their Secretariat, when an Italian MEP, in 2002, noticed that the colours of the Italian flag were unrecognizable with red, for example, which had a shade that ...
An Italian tricolour with a red star in the center. 1992– Flag of Italians of Croatia: An Italian tricolour. 1950–1960 Flag of the Trust Territory of Somaliland: An Italian tricolour. 1946–2003 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2003–2006 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006– Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006– Flag of ...
The flag of Italy (Italian: Bandiera d'Italia, Italian: [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to in Italian as il Tricolore (Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]), the national flag of Italy. It is a tricolour featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, national colours of Italy , with the green at the hoist side, as ...
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.
The tower of the town hall of Cherasco. The oldest documented mention of the Italian tricolour flag is linked to the first descent of Napoleon in the Italian Peninsula.With the start of the first campaign in Italy, in many places the Jacobins of the peninsula rose up, contributing, together with the Italian soldiers framed in the Napoleonic army, to the French victories.
The sortable table below contains the three sets of ISO 3166-1 country codes for each of its 249 countries, links to the ISO 3166-2 country subdivision codes, and the Internet country code top-level domains (ccTLD) which are based on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 standard with the few exceptions noted. See the ISO 3166-3 standard for former country codes.
The flag is the coat of arms of Liguria superimposed on tricolour green, red and blue field. Each colour of the field has the following meaning: [ 18 ] the green represents the Ligurian Alps and the Ligurian Apennines ; the red represents the blood shed for Italian unification ; the blue represents the Ligurian Sea .