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Many national flags and other flags include religious symbols such as the cross, the crescent, or a reference to a patron saint.
Flags are also adopted by religious groups and flags such as the Jain flag and the Christian flag are used to represent a whole religion.
Flags are usually rectangular in shape (often in the ratio 2:3, 1:2, or 3:5), but may be of any shape or size that is practical for flying,
including square, triangular, or swallow tailed. A more unusual flag shape is that of the flag of Nepal,
which is in the shape of two stacked triangles.
Many flags are dyed through and through to be inexpensive to manufacture, such that the reverse side is the mirror image of the
obverse (front) side. This presents two possibilities:
A flag is a piece of fabric, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used symbolically for signaling or identification.
It is most commonly used to symbolize a country. The term flag is also used to refer to the graphic design employed by a flag,
or to its depiction in another medium.
The origin of modern flags lies in our remote prehistoric past. When people started to form large groups to live and hunt together,
they appointed a leader to rule them and settle disputes. As a mark of office this leader would wear some sort of ceremonial
head-dress and hold a long decorative staff, rod or spear, topped with an ornament or tribal emblem.
The staff was also used as a visible sign to rally around, or to point out the direction of a march or attack.
This prehistoric, or proto-flag, is known as a vexilloid. Later in Ancient China, a different tradition developed when
silk was invented between 6000 and 3000 BC. This strong, light fabric was ideal for making banners, which were much
easier to carry than the vexilloids that had been used earlier, and they were also easier to see from a distance.
From Ancient China the use of fabric flags spread to Mongolia, Japan, Korea, India, Persia, Ancient Greece, and finally the Roman Empire and the rest of Europe.
The usage of flags spread from India and China, where they were almost certainly invented, to neighboring Burma,
Siam, and southeastern Asia.
The Persians used Derafsh Kaviani as the flag, at the time of Achaemenian dynasty at 550–330 B.C.
Afterwards it was used in different look by the late Sassanid era (224-651). It was also representative of the
Sassanid state - Ērānshāhr, the "Kingdom of Iran" - and may so be considered to have been the first "national flag" of Iran.
Originally, the standards of the Roman legions were not flags, but symbols such as the eagle of Augustus Caesar's Xth legion;
this graphic of the eagle would be placed on a staff for the standard-bearer to hold up during battle. But a military unit from
Dacia had for a standard a dragon with a flexible tail which would move in the wind; the legions copied this, and eventually
all the legions had physically flexible standards–the modern-day flag.
During the Middle Ages, flags were used for a variety of purposes including: identification of members of nobility, guilds,
cities, religious worship, and for use during battles. In battle, flags were used by military companies for identification on
the field and relaying of strategic instructions. Though not always, flags could identify individual leaders: in Europe, monarchs
and knights; in Japan, the samurai; in China, the generals under the imperial army; and in Mexico, the Aztec alliances.
From the era of sailing vessels onwards, it has been customary (and later a legal requirement) for ships to carry flags
designating their nationality;[2] these flags eventually evolved into the national flags and maritime flags of today. Flags
also became the preferred means of communications at sea, resulting in various systems of flag signals; see,
International maritime signal flags.
As European knights were replaced by centralized armies, flags became the means to identify not just nationalities but
also individual military units. Flags became objects to be captured or defended. Eventually these flags posed too much
of a practical danger to those carrying them, and by World War I these were withdrawn from the battlefields, and have
since been used only at ceremonial occasions.
One of the most popular uses of a flag is to symbolize a nation or country. Some national flags have been particularly
inspirational to other nations, countries, or subnational entities in the design of their own flags. Some prominent examples include:
The flag of Denmark is the oldest state flag still in use. This flag, called the Dannebrog, inspired the cross design of
the other Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and regional flags for the Faroe Islands, Åland, Scania and Bornholm.
The Union Flag (Union Jack) of the United Kingdom is the most commonly used. British colonies typically flew a
flag based on one of the ensigns based on this flag, and many former colonies have retained the design to acknowledge
their cultural history. Examples: Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, Tuvalu, and also the Canadian provinces of Manitoba, Ontario and
British Columbia, and the American state of Hawaii; see commons: Flags based on British ensigns.

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We carry all type of Flags from American flags to business flags, or country flags