First , lets keep this to the subject .just facts!

I want learn about other countries or state flags.
tell us when it was first flown.
what it represents.
why the colors were choosen.
its size.
any symbols...and what they represent.

post a picture or a link to it.

once again no personal or political views. please!
Mods or admin please delete anything that strays from the subject matter.
i'm sorry guys if this comes across harshly.
i just want find out what other flags represents, and give everyone a chance to brag about thier flag.

 

The Present day Canada Flag was created by the Federal Liberal Party of Canada because it was thought it needed its own (not Britain related) Flag.

The Story of the Present Day Canadian Flag




The Red Maple Leaf with 11 points in the middle of the flag represents the 11 Province's & territories.
The red bars on each end represents each Ocean.
One Canada for ALL People.
It began flying on Feb 15th, 1965,right after the Canadian Red Ensign was Lowered.
Although, the new flag was Not accepted by Everyone.
The flag was considered a Liberal Flag & Not one for all people.

Later in life it was felt the greatest thing the Prime Minister at the time Lester B. Pearson was best known for, was the bringing in the New Flag.
My personal choice, had I been in charge, would have been a Gold Maple Leaf & the red bars would have been Blue which would have represented the water.
It was discarded by the Flag committee.
The Gold Leaf would have represented "a Rich Country of Resources & its People.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The Canadian Red Ensign was the flag flown in Canada up until about noon February 15th/1965.
It was given to Canada by Britain as Canada was & still is, a commonwealth Country





Here is a link for it

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~




I will also be including the Alberta Flag = The Province I Live in


& the Calgary Flag of which I submitted an entry way back when.




Lots of Flags in Canada.


http://www.imagesoft.net/canada/can-symb.html#ndxb

 

Six national flags of Texas
Spain 1519-1685 and 1690-1821
France 1685-1690
Mexico 1821-1836
Republic of Texas 1836-1845
Confederate Sates of America 1861-1865
United States of America 1845-1861 and 1865 to present

The State flag is the National flag of The Republic of Texas.
The flag was adopted as the state flag when Texas became the 28th state in 1845. As with the flag of the United States, the blue stands for loyalty, the white represents strength, and the red is for bravery.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ref/abouttx/flagdes.html

 

The Ohio State Flag
Unique among the state flags of the union, the Ohio State Flag was designed by John Eisemann. Described as a pennant, the Ohio burgee is properly a swallowtail design. It was adopted in 1902.



The Ohio flag, unique in shape but uncomplicated in design, is filled with symbolism. The union of the flag, a large blue triangle is populated with seventeen white stars. Those that are grouped around the circle represent the thirteen original colonies. The four stars found at the apex of the triangle combine with the stars of the thirteen original colonies to total seventeen. Ohio was the seventeenth state to enter the union.

Three red and two white horizontal stripes and the blue field copy the red, white and blue of the Stars and Stripes. The blue field represents Ohio's hills and valleys. The stripes represent the roads and waterways of the state.

The white circle with a its red center forms the "O" in Ohio and can also be related to the state's nickname, the "Buckeye State."

 

I don't know much about my state flag, its got a big river on it, the Yellowstone, longest un-dammed river in the world.

Below that its reads "Oro Y Plata" or Gold and Silver, which signifies all the mining in the state. Really we mine a lot more Coal and Copper.

theres a chic with a set of scales meaning equality

not sure of the dates of inception and exact detail of its design or construction.

 

South Dakota has had two flags, at least in the time I lived there. It started out with the blue flag with the gold seal in the center, and the motto "The Sunshine State" but since Florida also uses that motto, they changed it to The Rushmore State. Can't tell you much more than that.

 

i'm an Irshman 3rd generation
Eire, Republic of Ireland

The oldest known reference to the use of the three colours (green, white and orange) as a nationalist emblem dates from September 1830 when tricolour cockades were worn at a meeting held to celebrate the French revolution of that year - a revolution which restored the use of the French tricolour. The colours were also used in the same period for rosettes and badges, and on the banners of trade guilds. There is also one reference to the use of a flag 'striped with orange and green alternately'. However, the earliest attested use of a tricolour flag was in 1848 when it was adopted by the Young Ireland movement under the influence of another French revolution. Speeches made at that time by the Young Ireland leader Thomas Francis Meagher suggest that it was regarded as an innovation and not as the revival of an older flag.


Meaning of the Colours
Officially (i.e. in the national constitution) the colours of the Irish flag have no meaning. However many urban legends have arisen to account for the colours. Some are presented below:
From this webpage: The Green is for the Catholics, the Orange for the Protestants and the white for the peace between them. Every once in a while when you see a green-white-yellow (instead of orange) flag around the country here, that person is basically disagreeing.
Heather, 27 April 2003
From a Government webpage: The green represents the older Gaelic tradition while the orange represents the supporters of William of Orange. The white in the centre signifies a lasting truce between the 'Orange' and the 'Green'.
There are a few reason why Green is associated with Catholics in Ireland - Coming from the long struggle for independence. Around the time of the American Revolution, there was anxiety in the ruling classes of Europe; fearing that the ideas of liberty and so on would spread to their own population and spark some kind of revolt. This was very true in Ireland - where resentment to British rule was very strong. Green had always been associated with Ireland as a nation, and with the revolutionary groups within it. For a while around 1776, the wearing of the colour green was actually barred by the authorities, giving rise to the song of the same name.
Green was the colour of sympathy for independence around this time, and has pretty much stuck with that until this day. The modern flag arrives much later, as a compromise flag - Which ironically, today, is used as a symbol for (complete) independence.
Jim McBrearty, 29 April 2003
The orange colour is associated with the Protestants in Ulster and that derived from William III (of the House of Orange and originally the Stadtholder of the Netherlands) who defeated the Irish Catholics at the Battle of the Boyne somewhere in the late 1600s. It was included in the Irish flag in an attempt to reconcile the Protestants with the Irish independence movement.
A.P. Burgers, 26 May 2004

 

The Arizona State Flag
The Arizona State Flag was adopted on February 17, 1917 by the Arizona State Legislature. The blue, red, yellow and copper flag was adopted despite numerous dissenting votes and then Governor Campbell's refusal to sign the bill.

Designed by Charles W. Harris and first sewn by Nan D. Hayden, the flag measures four feet high and six feet wide. The flag is divided into a top and bottom half with a large five point copper star in the center.

The top half of the flag refers to the 13 original colonies of the United States and the western setting sun. The copper star in the center of the flag identified Arizona as the largest copper producing state in the union.

The lower half of the flag is a field of blue, the same Liberty Blue found in the United States' Flag. The red found in the rays of the setting sun is also the same shade of red found in the United States' Flag. The Blue of the lower half of the flag and the yellow of the western setting sun are the Arizona State Colors. The red and yellow colors found in the rays are the colors flown by the Spanish Conquistedores led by Francisco Vasquez de Coronado in his unsuccessful search for the Seven Cities of Cibola in 1540.




Other flags that have flown over Arizona
The Castilian and Burgundian flags of Spain
The Mexican flag,
The Confederate flag

 

The Virginia State Flag:
--In 1861, the Virginia State Convention passed an ordinance establishing a design virtually identical to that in current use. This flag has a deep blue field with a circular white center. The obverse of the great seal of the Commonwealth (see description below) has been identically painted or embroidered on each side of the flag. A white silk fringe adorns the edge farthest from the flag staff
The Great Seal of the Commonwealth:
---The obverse side of the great seal depicts the Roman goddess Virtus representing the spirit of the Commonwealth. She is dressed as an Amazon, a sheathed sword in one hand, and a spear in the other, and one foot on the form of Tyranny, who is pictured with a broken chain in his left hand, a scourge in his right, and his fallen crown nearby, implying struggle that has ended in complete victory. Virginia’s motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis (Latin for "Thus Always to Tyrants"), appears at the bottom.
A picture and more info can be found here

 

The California Flag

Historic Bear Flag raised at Sonoma on June 14, 1846, by a group of American settlers in revolt against Mexican rule. The flag was designed by William Todd on a piece of new unbleached cotton. The star imitated the lone star of Texas. A grizzly bear represented the many bears seen in the state. The word, "California Republic" was placed beneath the star and bear. It was adopted by the 1911 State Legislature as the State Flag. [Source: California Blue Book]

The original Bear Revolt Flag was destroyed in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. An exact copy was made shortly before the earthquake and is still on display in Sonoma. The Bear Revolt participants seized control of the state from General Vallejo, Mexico's Governor General for California, and turned control over to the United States.I took the kids to see the flag and General Vallejo's home as well as the barracks of the Mexican soldiers (which still stands today as a museum) to appreciate some of our state's history.

(sorry no picture, I'm not computer literate)

 

The first flag of New Mexico statehood was designed by New Mexico historian Ralph Emerson Twitchell, as authorized in 1915. It consisted of a blue field with a miniature United States flag in the upper left corner, the state’s great seal in the lower right corner and “New Mexico” embroidered diagonally across the field from the lower left to the upper right corner.

In 1920, the New Mexico Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) advocated the adoption of a flag representative of New Mexico’s unique character. Three years later, the D.A.R. conducted a design competition which was won by the distinguished Santa Fe physician and archeologist, Dr. Harry Mera. The doctor’s wife, Reba, made the winning flag design with a symbolic red Zia on a field of yellow. In March of 1925, Governor Arthur T. Hannett signed the legislation which proclaimed the Mera design as the official state flag.

The State Flag of New Mexico has a modern interpretation of an ancient symbol of a sun design as seen on a late 19th century water jar from Zia Pueblo. This pueblo is thought to have been one of the Seven Golden Cities of Cíbola, which explorer Vásquez de Coronado sought. The red sun symbol was called a “Zia” and is shown on a field of yellow. This distinctive design reflects the pueblo's tribal philosophy, with its wealth of pantheistic spiritualism teaching the basic harmony of all things in the universe. Four is the sacred number of Zia, and the figure is composed of a circle from which four points radiate. To the Zia Indian, the sacred number is embodied in the earth with its four main directions; in the year with its four seasons; in the day, with sunrise, noon, evening and night; in life, with its four divisions - childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. Everything is bound together in a circle of life, without beginning, without end. The Zia believe, too, that in this great brotherhood of all things, man has four sacred obligations: he must develop a strong body, a clear mind, a pure spirit, and a devotion to the welfare of his people.

The red and yellow are the colors of Isabel of Castilla which the Spanish Conquistadors brought to the New World. The symbol's proportions are fixed by legislative act, with the four groups of rays set at right angles, the two inner rays one-fifth longer than the outer rays. The diameter of the circle in the center is one third the width of the symbol.

The flags of Spain, the Republic of Mexico, the Confederate States of America, and the United States of America have all flown over the “Land of Enchantment” during the long history of the state.

OFFICIAL SALUTE TO THE FLAG

English - “I salute the flag of the State of New Mexico and the Zía symbol of perfect friendship among united cultures.”

Spanish - “Saludo la bandera del estado de Nuevo Méjico, el simbolo Zía de amistad perfecta, entre culturas unidas.”

The words to the salute were composed by Mrs. T.K. Martin, Mrs. W.B. Oldham, Mrs. Thomas E. Mears, Jr., and Mrs. James D. Turner of the Portales Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Mr. Thomas E. Mears, Jr. wrote the proposal for presentation to the 26th Legislature which adopted the salute on March 13, 1963. The Spanish version was translated by Maria E. Naranjo of Larragoite School in Santa Fe, and adopted by the 31st Legislature in 1973.

 

Commonwealth of Kentucky: the flag was adopted in 1918 but final design was not agreed upon for another 10 years. The seal shows a pioneer and a statesman greeting(representing all the different people) and the state motto "United we stand, divided we fall" on a navy blue background. Surrounding the seal is the state flower, a goldenrod.

 

The flag of the State Of Iowa has three vertical bars of blue, white, and red (left to right). In the middle (white) bar, is a bald eagle holding a blue streamer bearing the state motto: "Our Liberties We Prize, and Our Rights We Will Maintain". The word "IOWA" is in red below the eagle.

The flag's colors recall the French tricolor, as the land was part of the Louisiana Purchase from France. Iowa became a state in 1846, the 29th to enter the Union. It is the only state to be bordered by two navigable rivers. Its nickname is The Hawkeye State.

The present-day flag was adopted by the state legislature in 1921.


http://www.50states.us/state-flags/Iowa-flag.html