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The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...
His seal combined the coats of arms of Norway (center, as an inescutcheon upon a cross over all), Denmark (in dexter chief), Sweden (the Folkung lion, in dexter base) and Pomerania (a griffin, in sinister base), and in addition the Three Crowns symbol in sinister chief; the latter heraldic design predates the Kalmar Union, and is now mostly ...
Emblems of the Kalmar Union; Flag of Norway; Flag of the Faroe Islands; Grzegorz Walasek; International Federation of Vexillological Associations; Krzysztof Cegielski; List of Danish flags; List of Estonian flags; List of Icelandic flags; List of Norwegian flags; List of countries by population in 1500; List of flags by color combination; List ...
Kalmar Union: Emblems of the Kalmar Union The flag of Denmark. The flag of Norway during the Kalmar union. The Flag of Norway. The flag of Sweden. The flag of Finland. Flag of Iceland. Flag of the Faroe Islands. The flag of Åland. The flag of Greenland. The flag of Caithness. Former Flag of Orkney. The flag of Orkney. The flag of Shetland.
The same design, but with a red Nordic cross on a yellow background, was used as union flag during the Kalmar union (1397 to 1523), and when that union fell apart in 1523 the same design, but with a yellow cross on a blue background (derived from the Swedish coat of arms adopted in 1442), was adopted as national flag of Sweden, while Norway ...
The flag of the Kalmar Union was used in the triple union led by Denmark, which included Norway and Sweden. In a letter written by Eric of Pomerania dated from 1430, the "Banner of the realms" is described as "a red cross in a yellow field". 1427: Maritime flag: A flag captured from a Danish ship by Lübeck forces in 1427 showed the arms
Because of the Kalmar Union, Iceland had been under the control of the Crown of Denmark since 1380, [4] although formally it had been a Norwegian possession until 1814. [5] In 1874, one thousand years after the first acknowledged settlement, Denmark granted Iceland home rule. The constitution, written the same year, was revised in 1903 and the ...