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Royal Banner being flown above Holyrood Palace. Displaying a red lion rampant, with blue tongue and claws, within a red double border on a yellow background, the design of the Royal Banner of Scotland is formally specified in heraldry as: Or, a lion rampant Gules armed and langued Azure within a double tressure flory counter-flory of the second, [12] meaning: A gold (Or) background, whose ...
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka; Sinha Flag Lion Flag: Use: Civil and state flag, civil ensign: Proportion: 1:2: Adopted: 22 May 1972: Design: A golden field with two panels: the smaller hoist-side panel has only two vertical bands of teal and orange and the larger fly-side panel is the maroon field depicting the golden lion holding a kastane sword in its right fore paw in the ...
Lion Leopardé ... is a French term for what the English call a Lion passant gardant. The word leopard is always made use of by the French heralds to express in their language, a lion full-faced, or gardant. Thus, when a lion is placed on an escutcheon in that attitude which we call rampant gardant, the French blazon it a Lion Leopardé.
The royal flag often featured the emblem of a Lion of Judah, a crowned lion carrying a cross centered in the banner's yellow midsection. The flag is understood to be a link between the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church , the peoples, and the nation that was united.
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.
The flag represents a banner of 2:3 proportion. With emblem region in the center — crowned yellow (golden) color lion. Height of lion — 3/4 of the flag's width, the distance from the upper and lower edges of the cloth — 1/8 the width of the flag. In the flip side — a mirror image.
A green flag bearing a blue Scandinavian Cross fimbriated in white Since 2020: Flag of Skye: Blue, with a yellow Scandinavian Cross entwined with a white circle. The flag brings together elements of the island’s Viking and Celtic heritage and depicts a birlinn boat with five oars – one for every area of the island. [17] Since 2002: Flag of ...
The emblem on the reverse side is the seal of the treasury: a yellow lion below a red Phrygian cap on the top of a pole (symbolising courage) and the words Paz y Justicia ("Peace and Justice"). [1] The differences in the obverse and reverse sides comes from the period when José de Francia was in power (1814–1840). [7]