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Lachine (French pronunciation:) is a borough (arrondissement) within the city of Montreal on the Island of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It was founded as a trading post in 1669. Developing into a parish and then an autonomous city, it was merged as a municipality into Montreal in 2002.
This is a list of flags of states, territories, former, and other geographic entities (plus a few non-geographic flags) sorted by their combinations of dominant colors. Flags emblazoned with seals, coats of arms, and other multicolored emblems are sorted only by their color fields. The color of text is almost entirely ignored.
Flag of the Treinta y Tres Orientales. cooficial flag of Uruguay Naval Jack of Uruguay Utah Uvs Province Uzbekistan [95] [96] Vanuatu Venezuela [97] [98] (civil flag) Vojvodina Wales Zaire (1971–1997) Yugoslavia Zambia [99] Zulia Žilina Region
National colours are frequently part of a country's set of national symbols.Many states and nations have formally adopted a set of colours as their official "national colours" while others have de facto national colours that have become well known through popular use.
Lachine (French: La Chine, China) may refer to: Lachine, Quebec, a borough of Montreal Lachine (electoral district), a federal electoral district from 1968 to 1988;
The origin of flags is unknown. Some of the earliest known banners come from ancient China to identify different parts of the army. [3] For example, it is recorded that the armies of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC carried a white banner before them, although no extant depictions exist of these banners.
This article contains a list of the flags and/or modifications made on the flags of current sovereign nations. Sovereign states. Country before 1700s ... Japan: 1868 ...
Each modern Japanese prefecture has a unique flag, most often a bicolour geometric highly stylised design, often incorporating the characters of the Japanese writing system and resembling minimalistic company logos. [1] The heraldic badges worn by warriors in medieval Japan were forerunners of the modern emblems used in the prefectural flags. [2]