Bandiere di Asia e Africa nel 1600

Su queste bandiere

Gli Stati intorno al 1600, con l'Impero spagnolo al suo apice, e la bandiera o lo stendardo che usavano. Quasi nessuno Stato aveva allora una bandiera nazionale: molte sono stendardi reali o bandiere di guerra. Quelli senza una bandiera documentata (l'Etiopia, per esempio) non ci sono. Alcune sono approssimate:

• Sultanato saadiano del Marocco: War flag of the Marinid and Saadi dynasties (gold star on red); a white banner is also reported.
• Impero Kanem-Bornu: A flag attributed to the empire from travellers' accounts; it may not match 1600.
• Impero safavide: The lion and sun on green, one of the Safavid flags; there were several versions.
• Impero Moghul: The alam, the imperial standard; the empire had no national flag.
• Cina Ming: A modern design with the character 明 (Ming): the dynasty had no national flag, and Commons marks it as fictitious. It is included so that China has its place on the map.
• Giappone: The Tokugawa crest: they won Sekigahara in 1600 and founded the shogunate in 1603.
• Joseon (Corea): The king's standard; Joseon had no national flag until 1883.
• Regno di Ayutthaya: The plain red of Siamese ships, the most described one; there is no official flag of the time.
• Đại Việt: A standard attributed to the Later Lê dynasty; sources are scarce.
• Sultanato di Aceh: The sword and crescent on red, documented later; probably close to that of 1600.

Disegni da Wikimedia Commons, di pubblico dominio tranne: Impero Moghul (TRAJAN 117, CC BY-SA 3.0)

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