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Byzantine Empire: Red, gold and purple Byzantine flags and insignia: China (Republic of China, 1912-1949) Blue, white and red Confederate States of America: Blue, white and red Cadet grey Cadet grey was an official color of the Confederate States Army: Czechoslovakia: Blue, white and red Donetsk People's Republic: Black, blue and red
White, gold. Banten Sultanate (1527–1813) Bhutan (with distinct yellow and orange) Hanover (1837–1866) Hindu flag (with distinct orange) Jacksonville, Florida, United States (with a distinct gold and orange and a brown emblem) Jerusalem cross – flag used by several Crusader states.
Black (Sable) Black flag. Flag of Afghanistan. Flag of Afghanistan (variant) Flag of Afghanistan (1901–1919) Flag of Afghanistan (1919–1921) Flag of Afghanistan (1921–1926) Flag of Afghanistan (1926–1928) Flag of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Michael's successors ruled the Byzantine Empire at its weakest point in history, and much of the Palaiologan period was a time of political and economic decline, partly due to external enemies such as the Bulgarians, Serbs and Ottoman Turks, and partly due to frequent civil wars between members of the Palaiologos family. By the beginning of the ...
Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light. In the RYB color model historically used in the arts, purple is a secondary color created by combining red and blue pigments. In the CMYK color model used in modern printing, purple is made by combining magenta pigment with either cyan pigment, black pigment, or both.
[209] [210] [211] The purple dye became one of the most highly valued commodities in the ancient Mediterranean, [212] being worth fifteen to twenty times its weight in gold. In Roman society, where adult males wore the toga as a national garment, the use of the toga praetexta , decorated with a stripe of Tyrian purple about two to three inches ...
A black over gold bi-color. 1953– Flag of Bavaria: There are two official flags of Bavaria. One is an array of 21 or more lozenges of blue and white, the other is a white over blue bicolor. 1954–1990 (West Berlin) 1990– Flag of Berlin: White with red bars at the top and bottom, with a bear off-centre towards the hoist. 1991– Flag of ...
According to the late Byzantine Patria of Constantinople, ancient Byzantium was enclosed by a small wall that began on the northern edge of the acropolis, extended west to the Tower of Eugenios, then went south and west towards the Strategion and the Baths of Achilles, continued south to the area known in Byzantine times as Chalkoprateia, and ...