Nordic Cross flags

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Nordiska flaggor

Skandinavisk: Nordisk korsflagg eller skandinaviskt kors kallas en typ av flagg där de vertikala armarna ligger till "vänster" om flaggets mitt, det vill säga närmare flaggstången. Alla länder i har denna typ av flagg og dessutom finns flaggor för Åland og, samt ett flertal andra mer eller mindre officiella regionala flaggor, till exempel för og. Även bland annat og Orkneyøerne har nordiska korsflaggor. Sättet att markera kulturell eller geografisk samhørighet genom liknande flaggor färekommer även på andra håll i världen, till exempel är många av arabstaternas flaggor i färgerna grønt, vitt och svart. Ett annat exempel är de flaggor i vitt og blått som används av de länder som tidigare ingick i det Centralamerikanska federationen.

English: Nordic Cross Flag, Nordic Cross, Scandinavian Cross is a pattern of flags usually associated with the flags of the Scandinavian countries of which it originated. All the Nordic countries have adopted such flags. The cross design symbolises Christianity and is depicted extending to the edges of the flag with the vertical part of the cross shifted to the hoist side as opposed to flags where the cross is centred on the flag (known as a Greek cross).

1 Nordiska nationsflaggor
- 1.1 Nordiska flaggor av självstyrande regioner
2 Andra nordiska flaggor med nordiskt kors
3 Nordiska korsflaggor i Tyskland / Nordic Cross flags of Germany
4 Nordiska korsflaggor för Skottland / Nordic Cross flags of Scotland
5 Flags elsewhere that feature the Nordic Cross or similar design
6 Se även / See also
7 Referenser
8 Externa länkar / External links

[edit] Nordiska nationsflaggor

[edit] Nordiska flaggor av självstyrande regioner

Flag of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous region of Denmark

Flag of Åland, an autonomous region of Finland

[edit] Andra nordiska flaggor med nordiskt kors

Note that most of these flags have not been officially adopted and their use remains limited.

Reconstruction of the flag of the Kalmar Union; Denmark, Norway and Sweden (1397–1523)

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Flag of the Nordisk Flaggsallskap or Nordic Flag Society [1]

Flag of the micronation Ladonia; cross has same color as background

[edit] Danmark

State flag of Denmark

Royal Standard of Denmark

Naval flag of Denmark. Note the very dark knaprød colour.

18th century flag of mourning

Unofficial flag of Bornholm (commonly used)

Proposal for flag of Jutland, designed by artist Per Kramer ^[1] (actual use is not recorded)

Another proposal for flag of Jutland, dating from 1972 (not in use)

Proposed flag of Vendsyssel (not commonly used or known)

Proposal for Flag of Greenland, designed in 1984 by Sven Tito Achen. Rejected in favour of non-Nordic-Cross flag.

[edit] Finland

State flag of Finland.

War flag and naval ensign of Finland. The presidential standard has insignia (Order of the Cross of Liberty) in the canton.

Flag used by Finnish yacht clubs. Club insignia goes in the canton.

Unofficial flag of Swedish-speaking Finns.

[edit] Ísland

State flag of Iceland

Flag of the President of Iceland

Flag of the Icelandic Customs Service

Former unofficial flag of Iceland (ca. 1900)

Proposal for flag of Iceland, designed in 1914 by Magnús Þórðarson

[edit] Norge

State flag of Norway.

Former flag of Norway (1814-1821)

Former flag of Norway (1844-1898)

[edit] Sverige

Naval Ensign of Sweden

Former flag of Sweden representing the union with Norway (1844-1905)

Official (alternative) flag of the Scanian lands (southern Sweden)

Unofficial flag of Småland

Unofficial flag of Öland

Unofficial flag of Östergötland

Unofficial flag of Västsverige (West Sweden) designed by Per Andersson in 1990

Catholic Cathedral of Stockholm

[edit] Nordiska korsflaggor i Tyskland / Nordic Cross flags of Germany

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1871–1892 (war flag of the imperial army)

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1892–1903

Kaiserliche Kriegsflagge 1903–1918 (–1921)

Proposed war flag of 1919 (never used)

War flag of Nazi-Germany (1935–1945), now forbidden in Germany

Flag of the former Saar protectorate (1947–1956) (Saarland, Germany)

Proposed National flag of Germany, circa 1919.

Proposed National flag of Germany by the German Resistance, circa 1944.

Proposed National flag of Germany by the Christian Democratic Union, circa 1948.

[edit] Nordiska korsflaggor för Skottland / Nordic Cross flags of Scotland

English: Nordic cross flags in Scotland are used to allude to a Norse heritage, although with two notable exceptions, (the flags of Orkney and Shetland), they have no official status.