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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 .
While the origin of flags is unknown, flag-like symbols have been described as far back as 11th century BC China and have been used by other ancient civilisations such as Egypt and Rome. During the Medieval period, silk from China allowed a variety of peoples, such as the Arabs and the Norse, to develop flags which flew from poles.
This is a list of flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag.Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
It is sometimes reported that the vexillum of the Ancient Roman Republic was red in colour and had the letters SPQR (which means "the Senate and People of Rome") in yellow on it, [citation needed] however "it is difficult to find any evidence that they were ever on military flags carried by the army."
The Service flag is used by those who held a position in their respective service branches. The TNI (red) variant of the flag is used by those who held a position in the TNI or Armed Forces it self. e.g. Lieutenant General Rudianto [] the commanding general of the TNI Academy (Danjen Akademi TNI), Rear Admiral Poedji Santoso [] who held the position as Head of the Armed Forces Finance Center ...
While they may give a good general idea of how flags looked like, the flags themselves are "simplified and schematised", and the illustrators do not bother to differentiate between the flags shown for the Byzantines and for their enemies; even the Saracens are shown as flying a flag topped with a cross. [72]
Central African Republic: 1903 1958 Central African Republic: Chad: 1959 Chad: Chile: 1812 1817 1818 Chile: China: 1888 [4] 1912 [4] 1928 [4] 1949 [4] China, People's Republic of: Colombia: 1525 1785 1811 1814 1816 1819 1820 1821 1831 1834 1861 1861 Colombia: Comoros: 1887 1963 1975 1978 1992 1996 2001 Comoros: Congo, Democratic Republic of the ...