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Cross of the Order of Saint John. Cross of the Order of Saint Lazarus. The Maltese cross is a cross symbol, consisting of four "V" or arrowhead shaped concave quadrilaterals converging at a central vertex at right angles, two tips pointing outward symmetrically. It is a heraldic cross variant which developed from earlier forms of eight-pointed ...
The National Flag of Malta is defined in the Constitution and consists of two equal vertical stripes, white in the hoist and red in the fly, with a representation of the George Cross, edged with red, in the canton of the white stripe; the breadth of the flag is one and a half times its height. It was adopted when Malta became independent from ...
Flag of Malta. A vertical bicolour of white and red with the representation of the George Cross edged in red on the upper hoist-side corner of the white band. A red field with a white border, and a white Maltese cross in the center. The flag of Malta (Maltese: Il-Bandiera ta' Malta) is a bicolour, with white in the hoist and red in the fly.
A trilithon, symbol of Skorba Temples, on wavy blue and white lines. 1993—c.2007: Mosta (town) A white flag with a red cross. In the centre of the cross is a blue star within a gold circle. c.2007—Present: Mosta (town) A white flag representing the actual town of Mosta with a red cross representing the Catholic faith among the people of Mosta.
The coat of arms used in Malta was the arms of Great Britain: However, Malta had three colonial badges between 1875 and 1964. The first (1875 – c. 1898) showed a white Maltese cross on a white and red panel, the second (c. 1898 – 1943) showed a white and red shield (like the arms of Mdina), and the third (1943–1964) was like the 1898 arms ...
The majority of them are treated as graphic symbols that are not characters. [1] Exceptions to this include characters in certain writing systems that are also in use as political or religious symbols, such as 卐 (U+5350), the swastika encoded as a Chinese character (although it is also encoded as a religious symbol at U+0FD5); or ॐ (U+0950 ...
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A Christian cross flag is any flag with a cross or crosses as a central element of its design (as opposed to flags like those of Malta and Serbia, which use crosses as smaller embellishments). It is the oldest flag family. The first flag purported to have such a cross was the flag of Portugal, beginning in around 1100. [2]