enow.com Web Search

  1. Ad

    related to: scandinavian union flag colors

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nordic cross flag - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordic_cross_flag

    The same design, but with a red Nordic cross on a yellow background, was used as union flag during the Kalmar union (1397 to 1523), and when that union fell apart in 1523 the same design, but with a yellow cross on a blue background (derived from the Swedish coat of arms adopted in 1442), was adopted as national flag of Sweden, while Norway ...

  3. Union Jack of Sweden and Norway - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Jack_of_Sweden_and...

    It combined the flag colours of both kingdoms, displayed in triangular fields generated by dividing a square or rectangle per saltire. The mark was inserted in the canton of all flags in both countries to symbolize their partnership in the union of 1814. Both countries had Nordic cross flags, but of different proportions. The rectangles on the ...

  4. Union mark of Norway and Sweden - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_mark_of_Norway_and...

    According to the constitution of November 1814, Norway was to have its own merchant flag, but the war flag was to reflect the union. The present flag of Norway was introduced in 1821, but its use was restricted. The union war flag of 1815 was a Swedish flag defaced with a canton showing a white saltire on red, meant to represent Norway. Public ...

  5. List of flags of Sweden - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_of_Sweden

    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)

  6. Flag of Sweden - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Sweden

    Flags of Sweden and Norway in 1899, after the removal of the union mark from the Norwegian merchant flag. Plate published by the Swedish-Norwegian foreign ministry to announce the recent change. A royal resolution of 20 June 1844, introduced new flags and heraldry to denote the equal status of the two kingdoms within the union.

  7. Emblems of the Kalmar Union - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emblems_of_the_Kalmar_Union

    His seal combined the coats of arms of Norway (center, as an inescutcheon upon a cross over all), Denmark (in dexter chief), Sweden (the Folkung lion, in dexter base) and Pomerania (a griffin, in sinister base), and in addition the Three Crowns symbol in sinister chief; the latter heraldic design predates the Kalmar Union, and is now mostly ...

  8. List of Norwegian flags - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Norwegian_flags

    Golden Nordic cross on red field. The flag of Nasjonal Samling was used by the party Nasjonal Samling between 1933 and 1945 and by the collaborationist Quisling regime from 1942 to 1945. Flags of NS were called Solkorsbanneret ("The sun cross banner"), the colors were based on the color scheme of the Coat of Arms of Norway. The party describes ...

  9. Kalmar Union - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_Union

    The Kalmar Union [a] was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, [1] it joined under a single monarch the three kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden (then including much of present-day Finland), and Norway, together with Norway's overseas colonies [b] (then including Iceland, Greenland, [c] the Faroe Islands, and the ...

  1. Ad

    related to: scandinavian union flag colors