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Flags of the Marshal Foch victory-harmony banner June 8, 1919. This is a collection of lists of flags, including the flags of states or territories, groups or movements and individual people. There are also lists of historical flags and military flag galleries. Many of the flag images are on Wikimedia Commons.
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 flags, arranged by design, serving as a navigational aid for identifying a given flag. Uncharged flags are flags that either are solid or contain only rectangles, squares and crosses but no crescents, circles, stars, triangles, maps, flags, coats of arms or other objects or symbols.
Sometimes these flags are used to represent languages. Many countries with shared history, culture, ethnicity, or religion have similarities in their flags that represent this connection. Sets of flags in this list within the same category may represent countries' shared connections, or the design similarity may be a coincidence.
Only countries which are currently sovereign states are listed, although the flag may have been adopted before the countries gained independence. The listed countries may have undergone fundamental regime changes, great geographical changes or even temporarily lost autonomy, or undergone political unions or secessions. If the flag remained in ...
Royal Flag of Norway: 1844–1905 Postal Flag of Norway: Novgorod Republic: 1385 Ottoman Tunisia: Porbandar State [citation needed] Empire of Trebizond: Banner of Ivan the Terrible in the Siege of Kazan: Qing dynasty: 1862–1889 Qing dynasty (Imperial Flag) 1862–1912 Republic of Venice: Banner of Saint Mark: Merchant Flag of the Ryukyu ...
See also: List of flags of Monaco: The flag of Monaco has two horizontal bands of red and white—these have been the heraldic colours of the House of Grimaldi since at least 1339. 2004– Flag of Montenegro See also: List of flags of Montenegro: The flag of Montenegro, adopted in July 2004, is a red banner bearing the coat of arms adopted in 1993.
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