Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
National flags are adopted by governments to strengthen national bonds and legitimate formal authority. Such flags may contain symbolic elements of their peoples, militaries, territories, rulers, and dynasties. The flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in current use as it has been recognized as a national symbol since the 14th century.
This is a list of sovereign states and dependent territories in the Caribbean. In a general sense, the Caribbean can be taken to mean all the nations in and around the Caribbean Sea that lie within an area that stretches from The Bahamas in the north to Guyana in the south, and Suriname in the east to Belize in the west in a general sense. This ...
Flag of Antigua and Barbuda: 1962 – 1967: Flag of Antigua and Barbuda: 1869 – 1904: Flag of The Bahamas: 1904 – 1923: Flag of The Bahamas: 1923 – 1953: Flag of The Bahamas: 1953 – 1964: Flag of The Bahamas: 1964 – 1973: Flag of The Bahamas: 1853 – 1854: Flag of the Republic of Baja California: 1870 – 1966: Flag of Barbados: 1981 ...
List of country subdivision flags; List of former sovereign states; Lists of city flags This page was last edited on 21 October 2024, at 19:30 (UTC). Text is ...
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
The West Indies is an island subregion in the middle of the Americas, surrounded by the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, [5] [6] which comprises 13 independent island countries and 19 dependencies in three archipelagos: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles, and the Lucayan Archipelago, including the English-speaking countries ...
The national flag of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas consists of a black triangle situated at the hoist with three horizontal bands: aquamarine, gold and aquamarine. Adopted in 1973 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the emblem of the Crown Colony of the Bahama Islands , it has been the flag of the Bahamas since the country gained ...
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.