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Flag of Texas, commonly known as the Lone Star Flag Bonnie Blue flag , associated at various times with the Republic of Texas, the Republic of West Florida, and the Confederate States of America Lone Star of California , used during an 1836 independence movement from Mexico
The religion most often adhered to by the Moluccans in the Netherlands is Protestant Christianity, and to a lesser extent Islam. [ citation needed ] There are significant number of native Hindu (Tanimbar Kei people) followers in Kei Islands , a predominantly Catholic region, despite the Maluku province's overall Christian population being ...
The Lone Star and Stripes/Ensign of the First Texas Navy/War Ensign flag was widely used by both Texan land and naval forces. This flag was simply the United States flag with a Lone star in the canton. This flag echoes an earlier design, carried by the forces of James Long in failed 1819 and 1821 attempts to separate Texas from Spanish control ...
Religion in national symbols can often be found in national anthems or flags. This has led to controversy in some secular states in regard to the separation of church and state , when the national symbol is officially sanctioned by a government .
After the VOC collapsed and with the legalisation of Catholicism in the Netherlands starting around 1800, Dutch Catholic clergy predominated until after Indonesia's independence. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] In present-day Flores , the royal house of Larantuka formed the only native Catholic kingdom in Southeast Asia around the 16th century, with the first ...
The Flags of the United States of Indonesia refers to the state flags that were used as the official state symbols of the United States of Indonesia (Abbreviation: RIS), the predecessor state of the Republic of Indonesia. The flag that were hoisted during the proclamation of independence on 17 August 1945 remained as the official flag of the ...
The flag of Chile, introduced in 1817, has a single five-pointed star known as La Estrella Solitaria (The Lone Star). The similar flag of Texas was introduced in 1839. The star and crescent used by the Ottoman Empire was shown with an eight-pointed stars in early forms (18th century), but was changed to a five-pointed star in the official flag in
The Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies (Dutch: Nederlands(ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda), was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.