Drapeaux de l'Europe en 1600

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Les États de vers 1600, l'Empire espagnol à son apogée, avec leur drapeau ou étendard. Presque aucun État n'avait alors de drapeau national : beaucoup sont des étendards royaux ou de guerre. Ceux sans drapeau documenté (l'Éthiopie, par exemple) n'y sont pas. Certains sont approximatifs :

• Monarchie espagnole: The Cross of Burgundy, flag of the tercios and the fleet of the empire; there was no national flag like today's.
• Royaume de France: The royal standard (gold lilies on blue): France had no national flag.
• Saint-Empire romain germanique: The emperor's banner: the Empire was a patchwork of states, each with its own flags.
• États pontificaux: The red and yellow of Rome, used until 1808; the popes also flew their own standards.
• Royaume de Suède: The yellow cross on blue was already in use; its shape and shades were settled later.
• République des Deux Nations: The royal banner with Poland's eagle and Lithuania's knight; there was no national flag.
• Duché de Prusse: A duchy under Polish suzerainty; flag reconstructed from its coat of arms.
• Tsarat de Russie: Ivan the Terrible's banner of the Saviour (Kazan campaign, 1552), from his Illustrated Chronicle: the tsardom flew religious and military banners, with no single flag.
• Empire ottoman: One of the Ottoman flags of the 16th to 18th centuries; several were used.
• Khanat de Crimée: A vassal of the Ottoman Empire; flag with the tamga of the Giray dynasty.
• République de Saint-Marin: A reconstruction of the flag used around 1465-1797; the colour of the last stripe (“alessandrino”) is read in several ways.
• République de Raguse: Saint Blaise, patron of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), from the flags documented in 1804; the republic flew him earlier too.

Dessins de Wikimedia Commons, du domaine public sauf : Royaume de France (Sodacan, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Saint-Empire romain germanique (David Liuzzo, eagle by N3MO, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Grand-duché de Toscane (F l a n k e r, elements taken by: The Fleece Some elements of the fleur-de-lis, CC BY-SA 3.0) · République des Deux Nations (Samhanin, CC BY 3.0) · Tsarat de Russie (Лобачев Владимир, CC BY-SA 3.0) · République de Saint-Marin (HapHaxion, CC BY-SA 3.0) · République de Lucques (Dekodrak, CC BY-SA 4.0) · République de Raguse (Facquis, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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