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Flag of the Order of Saint John used in Malta: Red rectangular flag quartered by a white cross. 1798–1800: Flag of France used in Malta: A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red. 1800 onwards: Flag of Great Britain and Ireland used in Malta: A superimposition of the flags of England and Scotland with the Saint Patrick's saltire ...
The flag of Malta (il-bandiera ta' Malta) is a bicolour, with white in the hoist and red in the fly. A representation of the George Cross, awarded to Malta by George VI in 1942, is carried, edged with red, in the canton of the white stripe. [1] The flag was first recognized in May of 1952. [2] It is the only national flag to feature English ...
According to the Collins English Dictionary, a national flag is "a flag that represents or is an emblem of a country." [1] The word country can be used to refer to a sovereign state, sometimes also called an independent state. [2] It is customary in international law that states adopt a flag to distinguish themselves from other states. [3]
The only flag used in Malta in the time of the Knights consisted of a white symmetrical cross on a red field with the cross having a width of 1/5 the height of the flag – similar to the flag of England, colors reversed with a proportion of 5:3. The flag is still used by the Knights' modern successor, the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919. This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons.
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English: Flag of Malta. Dansk: Maltas flag. ... List of FIPS country codes; View more links to this file. Global file usage. The following other wikis use this file:
Crown Colony of Malta; Flag of Malta; Flags of Europe; Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories; List of flags of Malta; List of golf clubs granted Royal status; List of official overseas trips made by Edward VII; List of political entities in the 19th century; List of ship launches in 1888; List of shipwrecks in ...