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Post flags of countries before they Westernized.
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Thats a good flag, should have kept it.
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Pre Commie Vietnam

More interesting than a souless commie flag
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>>467152
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>>467152
JUST
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>>467170

Another shitty new meme?
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>>467185
Far from new
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>>467152
A Flag is a pretty western thing really. Not many non-western countries had them. Most represented their states via symbols, seals, standards, and totems.

China had the 5 clawed dragon and the color Yellow. Nips had the Chrysanthemum Seal of their Emperor. Mongols had the 9 Yak Tail standard.
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>>467152
Crimean Khanate.
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>>467193
>A Flag is a pretty western thing really.

Oh boy look at all this Eurocentrism
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>>467152
Flag of the 13th century Karamanid Dynasty in Turkey looks oddly familiar
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THE GREATEST
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kek
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>>469129
no you dumbass the shogunate didnt have a flag it had a mon (crest), white wiith some golden shit on it. fuck off.
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>>468996
i dont think even yurofags had flags in much use until like the 1600's or so?
before that it was all medieval heraldry n shit
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>>468996
But it is. Flags today are a product of Nation-states, an inherently European concept spread across the world via colonization and westernization.
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BENIN
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>>470402
Fucking metal.
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>>467185
t. Alberto Barbosa
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>>470402
>warning: machete rape hordes
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>>470402
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>>470402
>>470557
Benin is just south of Niger.

Niger Benin.
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>>470563
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>>467177
Where have I seen that face before?
Also Fresh OC coming through Boys.
I forgot what the mouth looked like so I had to improvise.
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>>470814
>Where have I seen that face before?

The infamous argentinian flag has a similar rape face sun.

Iranian flags in general seem to love it too, even the ones that look nice.
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>>467177
>>471091

Also, does someone know why the Mughals literally copied the lion and sun? I know they were hugue persiaboos, but still...
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maratha confederacy
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>>470471
Fuck you reddit
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>>470402
That should be a fucking pirate flag.
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>>468998

Apparently in the 13th/14th, the star of David was pretty popular among muslims as well.
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>>471123
because their original flag was pretty lame
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>>469864
>What is the Ottoman empire?
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>>471622
yeah but the same two colors as well?? it uncanny
>cue Turk-Zionist conspiracy theory
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>>472125
Who didn't have a single flag prior the late 1700's...when it was copying the shit outta Europe.

Prior to that, it had
-The Sultan's cypher/cypher of the Osmanli Dynasty
-The Zulfiqar flag
-Crescent
-Crescent and Star
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>>467152
Umayyad caliphate was apparently into minimalism
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>>472155
They did. The Sultan's signature was just an imperial stamp, the Zulfiqar flag was a naval standard. I don't see why having a few variants of the crescent flag means that they didn't have a flag or that they copied Europe
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Pre ottoman but still
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>>472176
I think he means that no flag represented the nation, the flag only represented the sultanate. For example there is a presidential seal for the U.S. (which can be placed on a flag) but that doesn't represent the country, the 50 stars and 13 stripes do.
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>>472162
I thought that was the French and confederate flag
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>>468996
I think that was implicit in his post. What's your point?
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>>471141
>/pol/tards appropriate bk2reddit
>spam it when someone violates their ideology
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia

This isn't completely related, but please check out the flags from the listed counties.
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>>474572
example
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>>468998
Well

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khazar_theory_of_Ashkenazi_ancestry
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