What does your countrys flag look like and what is the history of it?

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konix

I live in Albania, the flag of my country has black eagle with two heads in a red field.The eagle represents the braveness of the Albanian and the red field, all the blood of the Albanian who died for protecting their country.Because of the flag sometimes Albania is called the country of the eagle and in Albanian our country is called-Shqipëria that comes from the word eagle-shqiponjë.

Pavel

The national flag of Romania is a vertical tricolor of blue, yellow, and red. The colors stand for the three historical provinces of Romania. The current design was officially adopted in 1994 but has been in use since 1989. The first flag dates from 1834 but the colours by themselves have held special significance ever since the sixth century. During the reign of the Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza and the first years of the reign of Carol I the colours were displayed horizontally, in the following order, from top to bottom: blue, yellow, red. Also it bore the coat of arms in use at that time in the center of the flag. The three colours stand for the three historical provinces of Romania, as a symbol of unity: Transylvania, Ţara Românească(also called Muntenia) and Moldova. Each colour, by itself, held important significance throughout history in one of the provinces. Their eventual unification within the national flag was a natural development. The shape of the flag, similar to that of the French and Italian flags, may refelect - though this was never officially stated - the strong pro-French tradition in Romania, and the tendency of Romanian Nationalism to emphasize the country's Latin culture, setting it apart from its East European environment and creating a link with other countries of Latin-derived languages. The first official acknowledgement of the three colours together on the flag took place in 1834, during the ruling of Dimitrie Ghica, when the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire approved the adoption of a flag with the three colours placed horizontally (with blue at the bottom) and an eagle holding a crown and sceptre on yellow, for the use of all Romanian commercial and military units and ships. This was the first official union of the three colours, and while it didn't hold a nationalistic meaning at the time, it was later taken as a symbol for the following nationalistic movements

Rahul

I am from India
You can see our national flag
Use this URL http://www.world-gazetteer.com/wg.php?x=&men=gflg&lng=en&dat=32&geo=-104&srt=npan&col=aohdq
The National Flag of India was adopted in its present form during an ad hoc meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on the 22 July 1947, a few days before India's independence from the British on 15 August, 1947. It has served as the national flag of the Dominion of India

The Indian National Flag was designed by Pingali Venkayya.
Bhagwa or the saffron colour denotes renunciation or disinterestedness. Our leaders must be indifferent to material gains and dedicate themselves to their work. The white in the centre is light, the path of truth to guide our conduct. The green shows our relation to (the) soil, our relation to the plant life here, on which all other life depends. The "Asoka Chakra" in the centre of the white is the wheel of the law of dharma. Truth or satya, dharma or virtue ought to be the controlling principle of those who work under this flag. Again, the wheel denotes motion. There is death in stagnation. There is life in movement. India should no more resist change, it must move and go forward. The wheel represents the dynamism of a peaceful change

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The flag of my country, Serbia is a tricolor with Pan-Slavic colours, with red on the top, blue in the middle and white on the bottom, and the Coat of Arms in the centre. It has been the national flag of Serbs for a long time but also undergone many changes, same as our country's turbulent history.
In the centre is the white two-headed eagle from the Palaiologos dynasty of the Byzantine Empire. The Eagle has a royal cape and is crowned with a royal crown.
The firesteels look like the cyrillic letter С, which represents the /s/ sound. This stands for the slogan "Само слога Србина спашава" - "Samo sloga Srbina spašava". ("Unity alone will save the Serbs")

Claire Redfield

Our National Flag has color blue at the top, red at the bottom, and a white triangle on the left hand side. On the white triangle, there is a sun that has 8 rays. Each of those 8 rays represent a province which fought against Spain during the colonization period.

I am from the Philippines.

Storm

my country's flag: same color scheme as Romania - three equal vertical bands of blue (hoist side), yellow, and red; emblem in center of flag is of a Roman eagle of gold outlined in black with a red beak and talons carrying a yellow cross in its beak and a green olive branch in its right talons and a yellow scepter in its left talons; on its breast is a shield divided horizontally red over blue with a stylized ox head, star, rose, and crescent all in black-outlined yellow

guess what country it is?

phuket223

My country is USA but Thailand has the best flag and the best people. I dont know what it stands for but to me, the flag means happiness and smiles and peace and fun. Its red white and blue.

Raven luvs YOU!

i live in america and our flag has fifty stars and 13 stripes and the stripes stand for the 13 colonies and the stars stand for the fifty states. it didnt always have fifty stars!! lol!

hey is Europe a nice place to live?

Denicia

Flag of Republic of Macedonia is red, has 8 yellow race sun in center.
History:
8 races sun is founded before 16 raise sun on Macedonian territory on vases and trees. 16 raise sun symbol was for Macedonian kingdom before expansion, 16 raises means 16 provinces of Macedonia.Sun 8 races or 16 is very in use in Macedonia whole period, in churches, on icons, on doors,in simply Macedonian houses, on clothes.Even Macedonians were long time under occupation they kept this sign. When Macedonia was in federation with others 5 nations, in use was red flag with fivefold star in corner. After independence 1991 Republic of Macedonia had 16 races sun in center of red flag, but Greece claim this sun for own. Macedonia change sun in 8 races, it is same like is founded of one old vasa in Macedonia.
http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Macedonia.svg
http://www.mymacedonia.net/links/images/animzname.gif
From the archeological site Anzabegovo:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8086/anzabegovobarutnicamacslp9.gif
Macedonian Orthodox icons with 8 rayed sun :
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/8961/kopiaraspetiehristovodecb5.jpg
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/4924/kopiablagovesteniedetalwi9.jpg
Ancient Macedonian symbol of eternity:
http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2390/simbolnavecnostamakbz5hc3.png
And more about Macedonian Sun:
http://www.historyofmacedonia.org/Macedoniansymbols/MacedonianSun.html

I'm Macedonian!!!

Macedonia's flag consists of a centered yellow sun, with eight extending rays, which widen atop a red background. The sun design is a simplified version of the Star of Vergina, which appeared on Macedonia's former national flag. Red has been a significant color throughout the history of Macedonian flags. The sun also represents "the new sun of liberty", which is mentioned in the country's national anthem.

The Macedonian flag was adopted on October 5, 1995, making it one of the world's newest flags. Macedonia gained independence from Yugoslavia on September 8, 1991.

When Macedonia was part of Yugoslavia the flag was red with a red star in the top left corner. Greece objected to the new republic calling itself Macedonia and to the design of the new national flag. Greece already had a province called Macedonia and feared Macedonia had intentions to extend its border to include Greek Macedonia. Greece also objected to the use of Alexander the Great's Star of Vergina, which appeared on Macedonia's original flag (from 1991 to 95) as Greeks believed the symbol culturally belonged to Greece and wasn't a Slavic symbol. Macedonia then removed the star from their flag.

http://www.worldflags101.com/m/macedonia-flag.aspx
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Flag_of_Macedonia.svg

flavivs severvs

Macedonian flag contains golden sun over red field.

Eight golden rays are very often item in Egyptian archeology and they are named as "an Egyptian double cross".

The symbol of the Sun is very strong in Macedonians, you can find it everywhere - artifacts, churches, details in folklore, in the songs, in the personal names ....

jesus_and_the_decibels

Im an American just like Raven and she already filled you in on "Old Glory."

Ethan B

http://www.crucialp.com/images/american-flag.gif
The 50 stars are for the 50 countries and the 13 stripes are for the 13 original colonies

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