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The colors of green, yellow and red were used for the flag of the Ethiopian Empire in 1914. [1] On 11 October 1897, a year after Ethiopia decisively defeated the Kingdom of Italy at the Battle of Adwa , emperor Menelik II ordered the three pennants combined in a rectangular tricolour from top to bottom of red, yellow, and green with the first ...
This flag was designed by the poet Macki Sufi [11] and remained in use until 1970, when the current flag was adopted. [12] The colours of the flag represented the River Nile (blue), the Sahara (yellow) and farmlands (green). They were chosen as they were neutral between ethnic groups and political parties. [13]
Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 ...
A horizontal tricolour of blue, yellow, and green; identical to the first flag of independent Sudan used between 1956 and 1970. 1965-1970: Flag of the Azania Liberation Front: 1957-Today: Flag of the Beja Congress: A horizontal tricolour of blue, yellow, and green with a vertical 1⁄4-width red bar at the hoist. 1971-1985: Flag of the Sudanese ...
Common design elements of flags include shapes such as stars, stripes, and crosses, layout elements such as including a canton (a rectangle with a distinct design, such as another national flag), and the overall shape of a flag, such as the aspect ratio of a rectangular flag (whether the flag is square or rectangle, and how wide it is) or the ...
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.
United Nations: the recognisable blue helmets of the peacekeeping operations and the flags of associated UN agencies like the World Health Organization, with the UN's light blue and white. European Union : the blue and yellow of the EU flag ; uses include the blue European Health Insurance Card and the Blue Card for skilled immigration.
3 Blue (Azure) 4 Gold or Yellow (Or) 5 Green ... Flag of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries; Flag of the Comoros; ... Green flag; Flag of Acre;