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An all blue triple-tailed flag to be used by the Arméns flotta. mid-17th century–1815: State flag and war ensign: Similar to the present military ensign (slightly different colors and proportions occurred) c. 1520s – c. 1620: State flag and war ensign: Swallow-tailed flag (slightly different colors and proportions occurred)
Danish, Swedish and Norwegian flags. Date: 10 June 2008: Source: Own work based on: Nuvola Danish flag.svg, Nuvola Norwegian flag.svg and Nuvola Swedish flag.svg: Author: Bep based on art created by Min's: SVG development
In June 1944 it became the flag of the independent republic of Iceland. Like other Scandinavian flags, it is based on the Nordic Cross. It is a reverse colour image of the Flag of Norway. The blue represents the sea, the white represents the snow and glaciers and the red symbolises volcanic lava. 1915– Iceland See also: List of Icelandic flags
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.
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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The exact age of the Swedish flag is not known, but the oldest recorded pictures of a blue cloth with a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King Gustav I. [citation needed] The first legal description of the flag was made in a royal warrant of 19 April 1562 as "yellow in a cross fashioned on blue". [9]
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.