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Romania had used its older flag starting in 1866, based on a flag used since 1848 in its region of Wallachia. In 2004, there were unconfirmed media reports that Chad had called on the United Nations to look into the issue, prompting then Romanian president Ion Iliescu to make a public statement that his country would not give up the flag.
This is a list of articles holding galleries of maps of present-day countries and dependencies. The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries , the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies.
The flag of Chad is a vertical tricolour consisting (left to right) of a indigo, a yellow and a red column. The colours of the Chadian flag were intended to be a combination of the colours of blue, white and red as seen on the flag of France with the Pan-African colours of green, yellow and red as seen on the flag of Ethiopia. [3]
Army flag of the Kingdom of Romania Blue-yellow-red vertical tricolor with the country's coat of arms in the middle, surrounded by a laurel wreath. In corners, the monogram of king Carol II of Romania , crowned and surrounded by a laurel wreath.
This article contains a list of flags for which the reverse (back ) is different from the obverse (front ).It includes current as well as historic flags of both nations and national subdivisions such as provinces, states, territories, cities and other administrations (including a few that are not recognized by the United Nations or whose sovereignty is in dispute).
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.
The American flag is one of the world's most recognizable symbols, but it didn't always look the way it does today. Before we had the current American flag, there were many versions, featuring ...
The status of these flags varies from one country or sovereign state to the next: most of them are official flags, whereas others are only used de facto, sometimes to indicate a desire for more autonomy or independence. Some flags, such as the flags of Leicestershire and Warwickshire, were created by the College of Arms in the United Kingdom.