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Sicily; Trinacria [1]: Use: Civil and state flag: Proportion: 13:20 (as shown above), 2:3 or 3:5: Adopted: 4 January 2000 (): Design: Divided diagonally from the upper hoist-side corner; the upper triangle is red and the lower triangle is yellow; in the center is the Sicilian triskelion featuring the winged head of Medusa with three ears of wheat protruding from it.
It is possible that this usage is related with the Greek name of the island of Sicily, Τρινακρία (Trinacria) ' having three headlands '. [20] The Sicilian triskeles is shown with the head of Medusa at the center. [21] The ancient symbol has been re-introduced in modern flags of Sicily since 1848.
The symbol is anciently closely associated with Sicily, well known as a tri-cornered island, and is attested there in proto-heraldry as early as the 7th century BC. [5] The most ancient name of Sicily, then a Greek province, was Trinacria, [6] meaning in Greek 'three-cornered', triquetra, referring to the triangular shape of the island.
Trinacria may refer to: the ancient name of Sicily. Sicily in the classical Greek period; see History of Greek and Hellenistic Sicily; Name for the Kingdom of Sicily during the 1300s; Name for the emblem of Sicily (the triskeles with the Gorgoneion Medusa); see Triskelion § Sicily. A nickname of the modern flag of Sicily
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