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Flags of the World (FOTW), founded in 1994, is the Internet’s largest site devoted to vexillology (the study of flags). Here you can read more than 85,000 pages about flags and view more than 200,000 images of flags of countries, organizations, states, territories, districts and cities, both past and present.
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The provision of the Flag Ordinance of 11 April 1921, however, allowed the use of the old flags, presumably including this one, until the end of the year.
It's hard to know what the colors of actual old flags originally were, because there were no specifications in many cases and the examples we have will have faded. There was a change in the color specification at some point in the mid-20th century, at least with regard to the blue.
Colonial flags of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Erroneous depictions in official stamps
Learn about the Polish flag, its colors, the white eagle and its history. See images, sources, laws and protocols for the national flag of Poland.
Learn about the origin and evolution of the German flag, also known as Schwarz-Rot-Gold or Deutschlandfahne. See how the black-red-yellow tricolour was used in different historical periods and contexts, including the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
Learn about the Thong Trairong or Tricolour, the national flag of Thailand, adopted in 1917. Find out the symbolism of the red, white and blue stripes, the flag law, the coat of arms, and the flag etiquette.
Learn about the history and symbolism of the flags of the Mongol Empire and its rulers, based on ancient sources and modern reconstructions. See images of different flag designs, such as falcon, crow, flame, soyombo and more.
Even so the third colour was still being desribed as yellow in 1934, ‘National Flags’ by E.H. Baxter, and occasionally yellow in 1939, ‘Flags of the World’ by V.Wheeler-Holohan, who wrote that “the green is for Ireland and the white and orange (or yellow) are the Papal Colours.”