Bandiere d'Europa 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:

• Monarchia spagnola: The Cross of Burgundy, flag of the tercios and the fleet of the empire; there was no national flag like today's.
• Regno di Francia: The royal standard (gold lilies on blue): France had no national flag.
• Sacro Romano Impero: The emperor's banner: the Empire was a patchwork of states, each with its own flags.
• Stato Pontificio: The red and yellow of Rome, used until 1808; the popes also flew their own standards.
• Regno di Svezia: The yellow cross on blue was already in use; its shape and shades were settled later.
• Confederazione polacco-lituana: The royal banner with Poland's eagle and Lithuania's knight; there was no national flag.
• Ducato di Prussia: A duchy under Polish suzerainty; flag reconstructed from its coat of arms.
• Zarato russo: 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.
• Impero ottomano: One of the Ottoman flags of the 16th to 18th centuries; several were used.
• Khanato di Crimea: A vassal of the Ottoman Empire; flag with the tamga of the Giray dynasty.
• Repubblica di San Marino: A reconstruction of the flag used around 1465-1797; the colour of the last stripe (“alessandrino”) is read in several ways.
• Repubblica di Ragusa: Saint Blaise, patron of Ragusa (Dubrovnik), from the flags documented in 1804; the republic flew him earlier too.

Disegni da Wikimedia Commons, di pubblico dominio tranne: Regno di Francia (Sodacan, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Sacro Romano Impero (David Liuzzo, eagle by N3MO, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Granducato di Toscana (F l a n k e r, elements taken by: The Fleece Some elements of the fleur-de-lis, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Confederazione polacco-lituana (Samhanin, CC BY 3.0) · Zarato russo (Лобачев Владимир, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Repubblica di San Marino (HapHaxion, CC BY-SA 3.0) · Repubblica di Lucca (Dekodrak, CC BY-SA 4.0) · Repubblica di Ragusa (Facquis, CC BY-SA 4.0)

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