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The current flag design often evolved over the years (e.g. the flag of the United States) or can be a re-adoption of an earlier, historic flag (e.g. the flag of Libya). The year the current flag design first came into use is listed in the third column.
Country Abkhazia: 1866: 1921 1931 1935 1937 1938 1951 1992 Abkhazia: Kosovo: 1999 2008 Kosovo: Northern Cyprus: 1984 Northern Cyprus: Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: 1976 Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic: Somaliland: 1903 1950 1952 1960 1991 1994 Somaliland: South Ossetia: 1992 South Ossetia: Transnistria: 1937 1938 1940 1992 Transnistria ...
The Capetian dynasty has been broken many times into (sometimes rival) cadet branches. A cadet branch is a line of descent from another line than the senior-most. This list of cadet branches shows most of the Capetian cadet lines and designating their royal French progenitor, although some sub-branches are not shown.
The flag ratio is defined as two by three (24×36 units); the size of the emblem is eight units square, placed four units away from the hoist and three units away from the top of the flag. [60] The flag of the Communist Youth League of China was adopted on 4 May 1950. The design of the flag consists of the group emblem, a gold star surrounded ...
The origin of flags is unknown. Some of the earliest known banners come from ancient China to identify different parts of the army. [3] For example, it is recorded that the armies of the Zhou dynasty in the 11th century BC carried a white banner before them, although no extant depictions exist of these banners.
However, on August 18, 1969, the sea flag was established as the sole national flag [17] and on August 18, 1970, the flag ratio was changed to 7:12 from 2:3. [2] Flags flying in ministries, embassies and public buildings had the crown in the centre of the cross until the official abolition of the monarchy on 1 June 1973 and the use of the crown ...
An unambiguous measure is the date of national constitutions; but as constitutions are an almost entirely modern concept, all formation dates by that criterion are modern or early modern (the oldest extant constitution being that of San Marino, dating to 1600). Countries by Date of National Constitution
Flag Date Use Description 1936–present: Flag of Turkey [1]: 18th-century design officially adopted in 1844. The star and crescent design appears on Ottoman flags beginning in the late 18th or early 19th century.