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The flag of Dominica, along with other national symbols, was the focus of a government-sponsored "Emblems Week" in 2016. An initiative of the independence committee, Emblems Week is aimed at reflecting on the meaning of the national emblems, and promoting their use among members of the general public and particularly among the country's schools.
The first written records in the history of Dominica began in November 1493, when Christopher Columbus spotted the island. Prior to European contact, Dominica was inhabited by the Arawak. Dominica was a French colony from 1715 until the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, and then became a British colony from 1763 to 1978. It became an ...
It is the island's national bird and is featured on the national flag, making Dominica one of only two sovereign nations whose official flag features the color purple. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The country is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations , the United Nations , the Organization of American States , the Organisation internationale de la ...
1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 400 metres; 1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres; Cayman Islands national football team; Enlargement of the United Nations; Flag of Dominica; Flags of North America; List of Commonwealth visits made by Elizabeth II; List of flags containing the color purple; List of ...
The following 31 pages use this file: Changes in British sovereignty; Enlargement of the United Nations; Flag of Dominica; Flags of North America; List of elected and appointed female heads of state and government
The following 37 pages use this file: 1970 British Commonwealth Games; Caribbean Free Trade Association; Flag of Dominica; Flags of North America; Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories
Pansexual Pride Flag. This flag represents people who identify as pansexual, meaning they're attracted to people of any gender. According to the Human Rights Campaign, it was created around 2010 ...
Dominica at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games; Dominica national football team; Flag of Dominica; Flag of the West Indies Federation; Flags of North America; Historical flags of the British Empire and the overseas territories; Legislative council; List of countries by population in 1900; List of sovereign states in the 1960s