What are the coolest/best flags, banners, symbols, emblems, coats of arms, etc... in history?
Which do you like best? Which are the most unique/original? What nation or people tended to have the beat flags and arms?
>pic related, based Byzantine flags, banners and logos
>>592649
What did the Byzantine flag look like before the Paleologus dynasty?
Aw yis
Flag bread
>>592649
Lookit my coat of arms
>>594464
Looks cool.
Wheres it from?
>>593988
I dink it was the chi rho, the one at the center top is the symbol of the ecumenical patriarch also I believe so it's also a possibility
>>594467
Denmark. Hvide (white) family. Basicalle the most powerful nobles at the time
>>592649
Do you even have to ask ?
>Based HRE
Pic related was a Taiwanese flag for a while.
>>594561
I love this one.
Estonian border patrol.
>>592649
The Oriflamme, pic related
The war banner of the French King from 1124 until the end of the Middle-Ages, it was kept in Saint-Denis and used only when the kingdom faced great threat
Its meaning was particular: when it was raised in battle in meant the French troops would not take any prisoner and kill everyone, even nobles instead of ransoming them
>>592649
I've always thought the Occitania cross was pretty based, simple, clean and meaningful
>>594823
not bad
>>595048
>>595053
the blood stained banner is kinda nice
>>595053
I prefer the Royal Standard apposed to this, have one on my wall. Of course, Cromwell wasn't much of a monarchy loving guy.
I really love the Venetian flag.
I think this would be a great, great flag for when the U.S. disintegrates and New England has to go it alone.
>>595032
you may just as well post all of them in one image.
Anyway, Greater Coat of Arms of Congress Poland, during the Russian rule after partitions.
Russia has interesting flags and coats of arms.
>>595228
August III, of Saxon Vetting dynasty, elected king of Poland
>>595232
Flag of Moscow is pretty badass
This Mughal Empire flag
>>595251
What's the story behind the dragon slaying flag? What does the dragon represent?
>>595177
Must've been a bitch to sew.
>>595260
You don't know about St. George?
Communism gets no love
>>595260
St. George slaying the plague-causing dragon in Beirut bro. Everyone knows George killed a dragon, man.
>>594457
Anglo-Saxons best Brits
Michael smiting the devil, nbd.
When did Rome stop using the SPQR banner, and what was its immediate sucessor?
>>595462
My guess is sometime around the Republic becoming an Empire, but that could be wrong.
>>594477
That's a cool family history to have, anon.
Am jealous.
Heres mine
>>595057
Amen brother.
>>595230
>bear-at-arms
nice
>>596795
Does this mean they have a right to bear arms?
>>597654
Nah, just armed bears.
>>597662
Whats it say?
Lybia had a cool flag
I love the Bonapartes.
>>595283
It doesn't deserve any though.
![600px-Flag_of_Zheleznogorsk.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Vh4789v.png "600px-Flag_of_Zheleznogorsk.svg[1].png")
>>595230
>>595195
>Implying any country with Massholes wouldn't disintegrate
>>597975
There is no god but god, and Muhammad is his prophet.
>>598688
Well alright.
I suppose i should have expected that.
Thanks, anon.
![United_Grand_Lodge_of_England_logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/Z5HBnve.png "United_Grand_Lodge_of_England_logo[1].png")
>>594464
Actually yours, or just your last name?
![2000px-Royal_Standard_of_Australia.svg[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/3jyKuMW.png "2000px-Royal_Standard_of_Australia.svg[1].png")
>>595111
Quite like Her Majesty's Australian standard.
>>599746
Why does it have the Breton symbol around the sides?
>>599759
It's royal ermine, representing the union of the states.
>>596447
Those are fake, brah
>>598534
This needs to be a sports team in the USA
>>592649
Literally the greatest coat of arms ever.
Veering this thread off track to include military cap badges.
>going over the top at the Huns with your comrades leading the charge in WWI tanks
>>599922
Close enough, medals and insignia are still governmental symbols
Is it just i who think complex heraldry on a flag looks really shitty?
our previous flag was far better than the current one
![ottoman-banner-osmanlc4b1-sancac49fc4b1[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/NW5qsvG.png "ottoman-banner-osmanlc4b1-sancac49fc4b1[1].png")
t. Mehmet
>>603147
Thats actually pretty goat
>>603147
>>603278
>>603318
>"Freedom or Death".
>Beautiful standards.
Yes, how did you know?
>>603318
They are lamers and retards, by true Islam messenger of an allah is Archangel Gabriel, Muhammad of a simply mortal prophet.
messenger ≠ prophet
>>603354
It uses "rasul allah" which means the messenger of god. Every prophet (nabi) is also a messenger (rasul).
"God took a covenant from the prophets, saying, "I will give you the scripture and wisdom. Afterwards, a messenger will come to confirm all existing scriptures. You shall believe in him and support him." He said, "Do you agree with this, and pledge to fulfil this covenant?" They said, "We agree." He said, "You have thus borne witness, and I bear witness along with you." 3:81
>>603381
>I know a bit of Russian, and it reads the same... but it sort of looks like a Glagolitic style script. Is it Macedonian like this one?
Its Cyrillic, its written in Bulgarian, those are all standards of the Macedonian-Adrianopolitan volunteer corps from the Balkan wars. Apart from the green one, thats from the Melnik uprising. The last one reads "God watch over Macedonia" but i think you got that.
>>603390
It's amazing how well they've been preserved. What do the 4 M's stand for? Where are you from?
I'll share with you a little bit of my own country's history. This flag here is called "An Camchéachta" (The Starry Plough), and was flown high by Arm Cathartha na hÉireann during the Easter Rising of 1916, where Irishmen and Irishwomen declared their Republic free from British oppression. You probably recognise it as a famous constellation.
>>603429
>It's amazing how well they've been preserved. What do the 4 M's stand for? Where are you from?
Im from Macedonia, the four M's stand for Macedonia.
>I'll share with you a little bit of my own country's history. This flag here is called "An Camchéachta" (The Starry Plough), and was flown high by Arm Cathartha na hÉireann during the Easter Rising of 1916, where Irishmen and Irishwomen declared their Republic free from British oppression. You probably recognise it as a famous constellation.
Nice. I have to admit i don't know much about Irish history, apart from watching "the wind that shakes the barley" i haven't really went that much into it. Ther are some historians here that try to establish a link, or similarity with the IRA and the IMRO, but those are fringe historians desu, i know i read somewhere that some Irish writer wrote that there were only two countries in Europe that were in the exact same position, Ireland and Macedonia, but i cant find him.
>>603429
>>603441
Found it, it was Roger Casement.
>>594464
>tfw would want to post my Coat of Arms, but it would be easily traceable directly to me.
>>594477
That 7 pointed star controls most of denmark even today.
>>594836
>then the English happened
Sorry about your nobles m8
>>605123
>hey everyone, the fucking twats are here
>>605133
not even trying to be edgy, you can't deny that it's heraldically perfect. almost hypnotic.
>>605144
a fucking windmill that had more to do with slavs than germans
>>598534
how in the fuck does someone decide their home should be represented by an angry bear stuck in three hula hoops while yelling at an ostrich egg it can't break open?
>>605133
you have to go back
>>605388
i wasn't talking about the context but the flag itself. just look at it.
>>605478
I agree. It's mesmerizing.
>>605133
> "All these flags of various states, nations and coalitions are beautiful, despite some of those states, nations and coalitions standing for values that are morally questionable and do not agree with my values!"
> "OMG A NAZI FLAG IS LITERALLY EVIL OMG SO INSENSITIVE TRIGGERED"
>>605133
Go back to >>>/tumblr/ you thin skinned jew.
Literally perfect. Much better than Germany's flag.
>>605123
its..... its..... perfect.
>>605133
fuck off kike
>>605133
Who are you quoting?
>>593988
They didn't have one as heraldry was not introduced yet. They used eagles like the romans they were. Eventually the two headed eagle (that was not roman at all) got popular. They also used other typical roman insignia like the labarum with the chi ro.
>>595254
Literally copied from Persia t.b.h.
Simple enough, well-designed, gets message across, iconic.
I don't know why. I just like it.
>>605691
you sure showed him
