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The national flag of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas consists of a black triangle situated at the hoist with three horizontal bands: aquamarine, gold and aquamarine. Adopted in 1973 to replace the British Blue Ensign defaced with the emblem of the Crown Colony of the Bahama Islands , it has been the flag of the Bahamas since the country gained ...
A British Red Ensign with the Badge of the Bahamas islands. 1869–1904: Flag of the governor of the Bahamas Islands: A British Union Flag with the Badge of the Bahamas Islands. 1904–1923: Flag of the Crown Colony of the Bahamas Islands: A British Blue Ensign with the Badge of the Bahamas Islands. Note: change in the design of the crown ...
Sky blue and white See Flag of Bavaria: Brittany: Black and white Brussels Region: Blue and yellow Grey Canary Islands: Yellow, blue and white Catalonia: Red and yellow Cornwall: Black and white Dublin City: Green and blue It is common to see dark blue and light blue flown for Dublin, but this is the GAA colours for Dublin county. England: Red ...
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
The earliest permanent European settlement was in 1648 on Eleuthera, settled by the British. During the 18th century slave trade, many purchased African slaves were brought to the Bahamas to work unpaid. Their descendants now constitute 85% of the Bahamian population. The Bahamas gained independence from the United Kingdom on July 10, 1973.
Flag of the Azores; Flag of the Bahamas; Civil Ensign of the Bahamas; Naval Ensign of the Bahamas; Flag of Bahia; Air Ensign of Bangladesh; Flag of Barbados; Naval Ensign of Barbados; Flag of the Barisan Revolusi Nasional (alternate) Flag of Bashkortostan; Flag of the Kingdom of Bau (1867-1869) Flag of Bavaria (lozenge version) Flag of Bavaria ...
The Eleutheran Adventurers were a group of English Puritans and religious Independents who left Bermuda to settle on the island of Eleuthera in the Bahamas in the late 1640s. . The small group of Puritan settlers, led by William Sayle, were expelled from Bermuda for their failure to swear allegiance to the Crown and left in search of a place in which they could freely practice their fa
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 ...