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Smaller flags, from left to right: Barra, South Uist, Yorkshire West Riding (historical), Orkney, Shetland, Scania, Åland, Pärnu, Setomaa (ethnic), Vepsians (ethnic). A Nordic cross flag is a flag bearing the design of the Nordic or Scandinavian cross, a cross symbol in a rectangular field, with the centre of the cross shifted towards the hoist.
According to the constitution of November 1814, Norway was to have its own merchant flag, but the war flag was to reflect the union. The present flag of Norway was introduced in 1821, but its use was restricted. The union war flag of 1815 was a Swedish flag defaced with a canton showing a white saltire on red, meant to represent Norway. Public ...
The union mark, however, remained a part of the Swedish flag until 1905, when a Law of 28 October 1905, stipulated the removal of the union mark as of 1 November 1905. [ 18 ] Union mark used in Swedish flags 1844–1905, with proportions 5:4.
The King of Sweden above the royal flag on naval ships: Split pennant with the greater national coat of arms 1905–present: Used by other members of the Royal House: Royal flag with the lesser national coat of arms (surrounded by the insignias of the Order of the Seraphim) 1905–present: Used by the heir apparent above the royal flag on naval ...
The proportions 4:5 were those of the union mark in Swedish flags. Swedish monitor HSwMS Sölve with union jack on the bow. The Union Jack of Sweden and Norway (unionsgös in Swedish, unionsgjøs in Norwegian) was the common naval jack of Swedish and Norwegian warships between 1844 and 1905, during the last six decades of the Union between ...
The flag of Scania, Halland, Blekinge, Gotland, Öland & Bornholm. Holstein Arms. Flag of Schleswig. Flag of Lauenburg. Flag of Helgoland. Estonia Nordic flag. Latvia Nordic flag. Lithuania Nordic flag. 1427: A medieval ship flag captured from a Danish ship by forces from Lübeck: Kalmar Union flag. Kalmar Union flag. The flag of Scania: The ...
This flag is wrong, the « union- flag» Norway and Sweden shared at that time, had the nickname « the herring- sallad». In upper, inner corner, the Norwegian colours where shown, that means that the blue cross is missing in the middle of the white cross in the flag. The Norwegian colours are « red, white and blue»!
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 ...