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The first “Blue Ground Yellow Tiger Flag” appeared on May 23, 1895, when the Republic of Formosa was established. When Taiwan and Penghu Islands were ceded to Japan as a result of the Treaty of Maguan (馬關條約), the Republic of Formosa was founded to avoid the fate of cession and Tang Jingsong, then governor of Taiwan Province, was chosen as the first president.
The idea of creating a flag for the province of Formosa arose during the 1991 Legislative Convention, which aimed to reform the provincial constitution of 1957. On 14 February of that year, during one of its sessions, deputy Miguel Bernardo Caja presented a motion, taking into account the suggestions of deputy Juan Carlos Díaz Roig.
Usage on ko.wikipedia.org 중화민국의 국기; 대만민주국; 옛 깃발 목록; Usage on ms.wikipedia.org Garis masa bendera kebangsaan; Usage on nl.wikipedia.org Tijdlijn van nationale vlaggen; Usage on pt.wikipedia.org Cronologia de bandeiras nacionais; Usage on simple.wikipedia.org Timeline of national flags; Usage on th.wikipedia.org
The name Formosa eventually "replaced all others in European literature" and remained in common use among English speakers into the 20th century. [ 4 ] The term mínzhǔguó ( 民主國 ) was an early Chinese translation of the English word republic , pioneered by William Alexander Parsons Martin with his Chinese translation of Henry Wheaton 's ...
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English: This is the backside to the shortly lived Republic of Formosa. The pupils on this version are crescents, instead of rounded, and the tiger faces left, instead of right, this is an old vectorization that loses a lot of detail and therefore should not be used in wikipedia articles, instead to represent the flag use .
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