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Flag of Mali. The national flag of Mali (drapeau national du Mali) is a tricolour with three equal vertical stripes. From the hoist (the place where the flagpole meets the flag) the colours are green, gold, and red, the pan-African colours. The flag of Mali is almost identical to the flag of Guinea, with the exception that the colours are in ...
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost entirely ignored.
The Empire of Mali reaches its height of power, covering much of Northern West Africa. 1352: Ibn Battuta, Berber scholar, travels across Africa and writes an account of all he sees 1462: Sonni Ali becomes ruler of the Songhai people and goes on to build the Songhai Empire: 1490: The Mali empire is overshadowed by the Songhai Empire 16th century
Mali's literary tradition is passed mainly by word of mouth, with jalis reciting or singing histories and stories known by heart. [ 190 ] [ 191 ] Amadou Hampâté Bâ , Mali's best-known historian, spent much of his life writing these oral traditions down for the world to remember.
None of these divisions has adopted an official flag. However, a 1985 territorial decree permits the official use, alongside the French tricolour and the French Polynesian flag, of the official flag of the archipelago on which the flags are displayed. [40] Four of the archipelagos have adopted such official flags. [41]
The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 codes are used most prominently in ISO/IEC 7501-1 for machine-readable passports, as standardized by the International Civil Aviation Organization, with a number of additional codes for special passports; some of these codes are currently reserved and not used at the present stage in ISO 3166-1.
During the 200 year period between 1301 and 1500 (the 14th and 15th century) the main civilizations and kingdoms in Africa were the Mali Empire, Kingdom of Kongo, Ife Empire, Benin Kingdom, Songhai Empire, Hausa City-states, Wolof Empire, Great Zimbabwe, Kingdom of Makuria, Kanem Empire,Ethiopian Empire, Kilwa Sultanate, Kingdom of Mapungubwe, Kingdom of Mutapa, and the Ajuran Sultanate.
Sampaguita in the Filipino language is a direct loan word from the Indian sanskrit word "campaka". [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Plants of some species of flowers like Sampaguita, fruits like mango and nangka , vegetables like ampalaya , patola , malunggay , name of Philippine's pre-Christian chief god Bathala (from sanskrit Bhattara Guru ), came from India ...