Weekly Flag Challenge 30 June 2010 : Poll

The Challenge
https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=3406034&postcount=70

This Poll will close on July 3, 2010.



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1 (Iserlohn)

The Chesapök Republik, which declared its independence from Denmark in the year 1793, chose its flag design carefully to reflect the attitude of the young nation.

The green on the flag stands for the rich natural reserves, e.g. the "wood eternal", which was harvested from the cypresses growing in the region.
The yellow stands for the desire of freedom.
The white saltire symbolizes both the past as a Danish colony as well as a break from the Danish crown.

The CoA's colours, red and blue, were chosen for being the dominant colours from the Swedish and Danish flags. The two leopards addorsed show the courage of the young nation, the anchor stands for the stability of the government, as well as the prousperous fishing grounds.

2 (ah-sue)

The Colony of New Jutland declared itself the independent 'Republic of New Jutland' on 1 April 1848. Danish was the official language until 1951 when English was granted equal status.

For the first 12 years of its existence the de facto flag of the new republic was a white star placed centrally on a red field. The current flag was officially adopted by act of the Folketing on 29 February 1860. The 9 vertical stripes represent the 9 Amters into which New Jutland is divided, green and yellow denoting the verdant countryside and abundant sunshine respectively. The canton denotes the European settlers (mainly Danish, British, Irish and German) who braved the Atlantic Ocean in the 17th and 18th centuries.

3 (Lord Grattan)

Officially adopted April 5, 1841 by the People’s Assembly of Danish Piemonte, shortly before it adjourned sine die, the flag of Piemonte was unfurled publicly for the first time 10 days later, Independence Day, in the nation’s capital, Fredericksted.

Based on the white on red “Dannebrog” flag, the flag of Piemonte is differentiated from the Danish flag by the placement of a broad green cross (representing the bounteous land) centered within a thin blue cross outline (representing the fertile sea) upon the white cross.

4 (kirrix)

The Republic of San Canuto (Saint Canute/Sankt Knud)
Dissatisfied with their foreign governance and inspired by their British American neighbors, the Danish colonists in Sankt Knud (Saint Canute to English speakers, San Canuto to speakers of other romance languages) rebelled against Denmark. With the Danish unable to muster a force to bring the colonists to heel, the eighteen provinces of Sankt Knud broke free and established their republic. They renamed the Ny (New) Copenhagen to Jorgenberg in honor of the inspiration provided by and the aid given by George Washington to them during their revolution. The Constitutional Convention of Jorgenberg created the design of the new flag, inspired by the US and Danish flags. The eighteen smaller stars represent the provinces, with the nineteenth and larger star representing both the unity of the provinces as well as the province-less capital city of Jorgenberg.

5 (Rubberduck3y6)

The current flag of the Appalachian Commonwealth (commonly known as Appalachia) was officially adopted on the 1st June (Commonwealth Day) 1946, replacing the former flag - the Dannebrog with the Appalachian coat of arms in the centre of the cross. The flag is based on the swallow-tailed Danish state flag, indicating the country's ties to Denmark (the Danish monarch is the Appalachian head of state), with the 'cut-out' section being replaced with a blue triangle representing the Atlantic Ocean that many Appalachian people, or their ancestors crossed. The blue and white stripes stand for the rivers and the land respectively. The six stars are for the six provinces - Chesapeake, Christiana, Fredericksland, New Zealand, Vestligen and Virginia.

6 (acateon)

The Kingdom of New Denmark
Following the acquisition of the Swedish colonies in America, the territories were named New Sjaelland and, unusually, held as a personal demesne of the Danish monarch rather than being a state property. As such, the colony used the royal arms of 3 blue lions and 9 hearts on a gold field.

Over the next two hundred years, as New Sjaelland became prosperous and a source of great wealth for the Danish monarchy, they pursued a policy of rigid control over who was allowed to immigrate into New Sjaelland: many of the Danish nobility and upper classes established large estates, using huge numbers of slaves to farm the newly popular tobacco as well as many other profitable crops, as New Sjaelland expanded south and west.

By the early nineteenth century, this had put the increasingly arrogant and autocratic Christian VIII at odds with his more liberal and educated subjects; when he was succeeded by his son Frederick VII in 1848, many saw a chance to liberalise and democratise their own country as well as enfranchise the overseas territories, and in this year, the Year of Revolutions, a march on Christiansborg confronted Frederick with a list of demands.

Sadly, Frederick was in his father's mould, and refused to compromise; the march became a bloody confrontation, and as the army deserted en masse to the citizens, Frederick was forced to flee. Boarding a ship, he set sail for the Americas, where the loyal nobility and aristocracy welcomed him and prepared for war against the newly proclaimed Danish Republic.

The declaration of the colony as the Kingdom of New Denmark necessitated a state flag to difference it from the monarchs flag; the same elements were adopted, but with a blue band representing the Atlantic Ocean, and the lion and hearts (4, for the four provinces of the new kingdom) rising from the sea to represent the rebirth of Denmark in crossing that ocean.

7 (Kate the Great)

Immediately prior to the Danish Homeland falling to a coup by Danmarks Nationalsocialistiske Arbejderparti (National Socialist Workers’ Party of Denmark), King Christian X issued a Royal Decree (23 January 1934) granting independence to all of Denmark's Colonies and overseas possessions. Although doubt was cast upon the King's right to make such a Decree its provisions were fully implemented outside Denmark.

The colony of Ny Fyn, on the Atlantic coast of North America, proclaimed itself the Republic of Andersenland on 2 April 1934. Proud of its Danish heritage, it chose a design for its flag which took elements of the flag and Arms of Denmark, changed in a way to reflect its distancing from the new regime in that country. Thus the white cross on red background was changed to a saltire form and the new nation's arms, place in the centre of the flag, were the old country's but with different colours and the crowns removed from the heads of the lions.

Yeah, second place!

Very cool entries everyone and special congratulations to acateon; you win!

Beautiful flags, one and all! Congratulations actaeon; I look forward to your new challenge.

Thanks guys, I feel very honoured. I'll post a new challenge tomorrow, as I need to check some details and probably get a map ready.