It is irl as well, when I was away I took a stuffed Puffin with me to remind me of home.
Flag Thread IV
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Flag for a fictional Caribbean union including mainland and islands alike (the Kreyol reads "All are welcome", approximately)
The six bands represent the six major demographic communities in the Caribbean region (Amerindian, African, European, Indo-Caribbean, Arab, and East Asian) and the eight pointed "star" represents the eight religions that have at least 2% membership in at least one Caribbean country:
Catholicism (most Spanish-speaking countries)
Protestantism (most English-speaking countries)
Hinduism (Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname)
Islam (similar dispersion to Hinduism)
Buddhism (Panama, Costa Rica - thanks hippies)
Irreligion (Cuba)
African religion (Haiti and Cuba)
Amerindian religion (Guatemala)
French Creole is selected as it is the most widely spoken language that originates in the Caribbean.
The six bands represent the six major demographic communities in the Caribbean region (Amerindian, African, European, Indo-Caribbean, Arab, and East Asian) and the eight pointed "star" represents the eight religions that have at least 2% membership in at least one Caribbean country:
Catholicism (most Spanish-speaking countries)
Protestantism (most English-speaking countries)
Hinduism (Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname)
Islam (similar dispersion to Hinduism)
Buddhism (Panama, Costa Rica - thanks hippies)
Irreligion (Cuba)
African religion (Haiti and Cuba)
Amerindian religion (Guatemala)
French Creole is selected as it is the most widely spoken language that originates in the Caribbean.
try here:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/request-maps-flags-here.228562/page-238
This thread here is more to display one's work
There was something just like this back in the day. Had quite a lot of fun with it.
I remember that, I used to play around with it a lot as a kid! Was that the one where you selected three countries that were significant for you and it made a flag based off them?
England and Wales:
Somaliland, Guernsey, Costa Rica, Jamaica, and the Peace flag:
This is fun.
Reminds me of a Dominion of South Africa flag I made a long time ago. Yours is more likely to have actually existed of course.
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The city of Toulouse was the center of the Occitan culture. It had once been the capital of the old visigothic kingdom. Although not formally the kingdom of the Occitans, the visigothic kingdom had been a reminder of a once united Occitania. It's not surprising then that Occitans began consolidating around the once great city of Toulouse. It began with Miqueu of house Toulouse, one man who's birth changed the course of history.
Kingdom of Toulouse
(Occitan-dominated France)
Miqueu was born as a noble with only the county of Toulouse in his possession. Although outnumbered in military strength, he knew how to play the game of politics. He first seized land by marrying a nobleman's eldest daughter and assassinating his remaining sons. Through deceit and various assassinations, he gained a sizable demesne. Then he claimed that he was king of a new Kingdom of Toulouse. This angered the French king who marched his army down to invade the new kingdom.
Miqueu decided that besieging Paris would be the only way to win the war. Lucky for him, a French guard had been careless and the gate was left open. He marched his entire army into the city. Because the French were caught by surprise the Toulouse army suffered little casualties. The French on the other hand, were slaughtered like cattle. The capture of Paris was a deathblow to the morale of the French army and a turning point in the war. With the economy of Paris, Miqueu was able to recruit mercenary armies and eventually conquer the kingdoms of France and Aquitaine.
By the 14th century the Kingdom of Toulouse had created a flag of the Aquitaine lion and French fleur-de-lis. At the center of the flag was the cross of Occitan which had long been the Toulouse coat of arms.
On 11 January 1923, Pioncare sent 60,000 French and Belgium troops across the River Rhine to occupy the Ruhr. As the issue escalated into a trial of strength between France and Germany. the Weimar government ordered the indefinite suspension of all reparation payments and instructed German workers not to co-operate but to engage in a campaign of passive resistance. Some went further and became involved in acts of sabotage and violence. Enter the Ruhrarbeiter Befreiungsarmee (Ruhr Workers Liberation Army) a paramilitary group of Communist workers mostly from the steel and coal factories. These 500 or so Communists were famous for their acts of arson against the Unterdrücker (oppressors) along with one or two acts of open aggression such at that on 15 May 1923 where two members were killed in a brawl with French troops following the attempted highjacking of requisitioned lorries. Once the French left in 1925 the group split into two; those who believed their campaign finished and others who wanted to instate a Communist-led Government in the Ruhr. The latter never worked out as following the split numbers fell under one-third and eventually the group disbanded.
Cross-posting from Weekly Flag Challenge:
It all started with the early domestication and adaptation respectively of native and foxtail millet between 2500 and 2000 BCE; the Jomon society, particularly in the eastern part of the main Japanese island Chikot Mosir (OTL Honshu). The eastern Jomon, traditionally hunter-gatherers, suddenly found their lifestyles transformed by this agricultural revolution, which started in the basin of Munsari-pet (OTL Ayakama River): they became permanent farmers, thus villages and hamlets were formed. As the transformation of the Eastern Jomon society spread to the rest of eastern Chikot Mosir and most of Kamuy Mosir (OTL Hokkaido), the Western Jomon experience a distinct agricultural revolution as paddy rice cultivation was introduced by garrison men from the Chinese princely state of Yue (OTL: Zhejiang) to the local populace. As most of the soldiers intermarried with the locals, the wet-rice cultivation was so widespread across eastern Chikot Mosir that when the garrisons where abandoned due to Warring States period, the clan system was starting to formed.
JOMON
(Ainu-dominated Japan)
Despite the difference in the main crop, the historical development of the Millet Jomon and the Rice Jomon was parallel; the latter could even assimilate the Yayoi immigrants from Gayanese Peninsula (OTL central-southern Korea) and Kyushu after a few generations; they even interact with each other through different ways: armed conflicts, intermarriages, trade. The eventual unification of the Jomon archipelago as a single political entity was the long-term effect of introducing indirect Chinese cultural and political influence generations later. The Yopyuk clan of Tontek-kotan (OTL Nagoya) was eventually chosen as the ruling Imperial House of Jomon because of their connections with both the powerful Rice Jomonese and Millet Jomonese clans; in fact, arranged marriages between the Yopyuk and both clans were quite common.
The flag of Jomon (Ainu-dominated Japan) is simple: it is inspired by the principal colors of the folk costume of the Millet Ainu: white and blue. The symbol at the center is the emblem of the country; the aconite arrow in red is the traditional symbol of the Yopyuk clan, whose ancestors were originally deer hunters (later, deer herders).
Cross-posting my WFC entry. The Welsh is probably all wrong...
Glorious Kingdom of Prydein
(Welsh-dominated UK)
"Llywelyn ap Gruffudd and Dafydd ap Gruffydd were, after the death of their brother Owain in their youth, thick as thieves, and when Llyweln was killed in battle against the forces of King Edward of England in the rebellion he had joined out of fealty, it would be Dafydd who would enter the Cymer Abbey, place his brother's coronet on his brow and, with the cross of Neith in hand, swore vengeance eternal against England. What came after that was nothing short of divine Providence. While the Welsh had only the lands of Gwynedd, Powys Wenwynwyn, and Ceredigion, their combined forces continued to plague the invading English, and their minor victories began to see other minor Welsh lords flock to the banner of rebellion over the course of several years. Several peaces were instituted in this time, but all failed due to breaking of border negotiations by both the Welsh and English. Frustrated by this, eventually King Edward led his armies himself directly into Gwynedd after the armies at the border of Powys Fadog broke in 1301. They made their way westward, where the aging Dafydd had begun to fortify. Edward's forces soon found themselves leaderless, however, as the King fell dead, seemingly struck down by God from his horse as Tywysog Dafydd charged against him at the Battle of Pwll Ceris (supposedly with the Cross of Neith held up like a sword, though this is likely false). Modern researchers have concluded, based on reports written by English commanders and by Welsh soldiers who witnessed the event, that a brain aneurysm was the likely culprit of his sudden death. Without Edward, the army began a retreat, the troops demoralized to a great capacity, all chain of command lost as panic set in and soldiers screamed that the King was dead by the Lord's hand. This victory began to turn the tide, and suddenly even Welsh lords loyal to England began to rise up, claiming, of course, that they had always been loyal to Dafydd, and were merely awaiting the proper time to act."
- Cymru Rising, Dr. Patrick McFarneth (1978)
"With the death of King Edward I, his son and heir (also named Edward) was to take the throne as King Edward II. However, there arose the issue of the earlier born son Alphonse, in exile in Scotland for his heresy, having been ousted as a Luciferian. Denying the charges but removed as heir by his father to save face in the eyes of the Church and the court, Alphonse went north and lived in the court of Queen Margaret I of Scotland. Seeing his time had come, he challenged his brother's throne, and began a war of succession, with the Scots backing him, as he had promised to swear fealty should he win. Of course, it was already well known that the pair of brothers had loathed one another since childhood, and few were truly surprised when Alphonse's army came surging into England...
"...In the initial aftermath of that famed battle, Alphonse had seemingly secured York, but his victory was ultimately pyrrhic, and he was unable to pursue Edward. At this point, with his men weary and few, and much the same to be said for the armies of England, which were dealing with an insurrection of peasants in Cornwall, Alphonse was forced to make a heavy decision. With the backing of Margaret, known for her iron will as she had aged, as well as her father, King Eric II of Norway, he declared himself King of Northumbria, with an offer being sent to his brother. Forced into a peace as Welsh nobles and Cornish peasants ravaged the West, Edward II agreed to the splitting of his kingdom, and turned his forces, but swore he would reclaim his lands. With the loss to the aged Tywysog Dafydd, he would become known as Edward the Broken, and would never see the reconquest of Northumbria, his brother Alphonse outliving him."
- England: The Slow Collapse, 2003 documentary
"It was not without a feeling of smug irony that Tywysog Owain III marched into London, a proud conqueror. Since the conquest of Cornwall two generations prior, the puppeting of Wessex into personal union, and the unification of the Cymry under his father in the Wars of Northumbrian Conquest, England had been increasingly falling to Welsh hegemony. With the death of King Henry IV without heir, the second English interregnum of the century had provided an ample opportunity for conquest. England and Wessex were thus merged, and in the ruins of the city, Owain was crowned Tywysog of Cymru and Lloegyr, Amddiffynnydd of Dyfneint. But the ambitious ruler, while without heir and with an army that would take decades to properly rebuild, was already turning his gaze north to Alba."
- The Greatest of Kings, J.L. Vasquez (1997)
"And so this act of the Senned, with the approval of Tywysoges Carwen, first of her name, does declare the perpetual unity of the kingdoms of Cymru, Lloegyr, and Alba, and the protectorate of Dyfneint, as the Glorious Kingdom of Prydein..."
"...the flag being that of the Kingdom of Cymru, itself derived from the banner of the noble Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, now defaced with the royal arms..."
- Acts of Union (1733)
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ok, i introduced my 6 year old little sister to this site and created this "beautiful" flag:
please send help
Three different designs for China, using the red and blue from the five races under one union flag.
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