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A digital depiction of the flag. The flag is located at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, London, where as of 2022 it is not on display. [2] The Museum description says the flag is "probably Itsekri", and that "the Itsekri people acted as middle men between the Edo people of Benin in the interior and the Europeans on the coast." [2]
The national flag of Benin [1] (French: drapeau du Bénin) is a flag consisting of two horizontal yellow and red bands on the fly side and a green vertical band at the hoist. Adopted in 1959 to replace the French Tricolour , it was the flag of the Republic of Dahomey until 1975, when the People's Republic of Benin was established.
A pair of regional indicator symbols is referred to as an emoji flag sequence (although it represents a specific region, not a specific flag for that region). [6]Out of the 676 possible pairs of regional indicator symbols (26 × 26), only 270 are considered valid Unicode region codes.
Flag of the Benin Armed Forces (Obverse) A horizontal bicolour of yellow and red with a green vertical band at the hoist with the name of the armed forces upwards and downwards and a golden border. 1960-Present: Flag of the Benin Armed Forces (Reverse) reversed version of the previous Flag. 1990-Present: Flag of the Republican Police (Obverse)
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The Kingdom of Dahomey (/ d ə ˈ h oʊ m i /) was a West African kingdom located within present-day Benin that existed from approximately 1600 until 1904. It developed on the Abomey Plateau amongst the Fon people in the early 17th century and became a regional power in the 18th century by expanding south to conquer key cities like Whydah belonging to the Kingdom of Whydah on the Atlantic ...
The Kingdom of Benin, [2] also known as Great Benin or Benin Kingdom is a kingdom within what is now considered southern Nigeria. [3] It has no historical relation to the modern republic of Benin, [4] which was known as Dahomey from the 17th century until 1975. The Kingdom of Benin's capital was Edo, now known as Benin City in Edo State, Nigeria.
Flag of Benin; List of Beninese flags; L. Leopard This page was last edited on 11 March 2024, at 22:48 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...