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The lauburu (from Basque lau, "four" + buru, "head") is an ancient hooked cross with four comma-shaped heads and the most widely known traditional symbol of the Basque Country and the Basque people. [1] In the past, it has also been associated with the Galicians, Illyrians and Asturians. [citation needed]
The Red Cross symbol. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. The ideas to introduce a uniform and neutral protection symbol as well as its specific design originally came from Dr. Louis Appia, a Swiss surgeon, and Swiss General Henri Dufour, founding members of the International Committee.
The Cross of Lorraine came from the Kingdom of Hungary to the Duchy of Lorraine. [1] In Hungary, Béla III was the first monarch to use the two-barred cross as the symbol of royal power in the late 12th century. [2] He probably adopted it from the Byzantine Empire, according to historian Pál Engel. [2]
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Nordic Cross Flag [13] Kingdom of Italy: 1861–1946 Christian cross: Jersey 1981–present Saltire Kingdom of Jerusalem: 1162–1291 Jerusalem cross [14] Liechtenstein 1982–present Christian cross [15] Liguria: 1997–present Saint George's Cross: Malta 1964–present George Cross: Manitoba: 1965–present Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew ...
The current flag was used by the Georgian patriotic movement following the country's independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. By the late 1990s, the design had become widely known as the Georgian historical national flag, as vexillologists had pointed out the red-on-white Jerusalem cross shown as the flag of Tbilisi in a 14th-century map by ...
An X mark marking the spot of the wrecked Whydah Gally in Cape Cod. An X mark (also known as an ex mark or a cross mark or simply an X or ex or a cross) is used to indicate the concept of negation (for example "no, this has not been verified", "no, that is not the correct answer" or "no, I do not agree") as well as an indicator (for example, in election ballot papers or in maps as an x-marks ...
The Ikurriña is the unofficial symbol of the Basque Country (Euskal Herria). Similar in pattern to the Union Jack , the flag was designed by the founders of the Basque Nationalist Party EAJ-PNV, Luis and Sabino Arana , and is commonly regarded as the national but unofficial symbol of the Basque Country ( Euskal Herria ).