 The flag of Switzerland.
 Flag ratio: 1:1
 The flag of Switzerland at sea.
 Flag ratio: 2:3 The flag of Switzerland consists of a red square with a bold, equilateral white cross in the center. It's one of only two square country flags in the world, the other being the flag of the Vatican City. Swiss ships at sea though, fly an ensign with the traditional proportions of 2:3. Image File history File links Flag_of_Switzerland. ...
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Image File history File links Download high resolution version (660x620, 73 KB) Summary This drawing is from appendix I of the Swiss Federal Act on Maritime Navigation (Seeschiffahrtsgesetz) of September 23, 1953 (SR no. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (660x620, 73 KB) Summary This drawing is from appendix I of the Swiss Federal Act on Maritime Navigation (Seeschiffahrtsgesetz) of September 23, 1953 (SR no. ...
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Schwyz (German Schwyz) is a canton in central Switzerland between Lake Lucerne in the south and Lake Zurich in the north. ...
The tricolour flag of France A flag is a piece of coloured cloth flown from a pole or mast, usually for purposes of signalling or identification. ...
Flag ratio: 1:1 The flag of the Vatican City consists of two vertical bands of gold (hoist side) and white with the crossed keys of Saint Peter and the Papal Tiara centered in the white band. ...
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Only the dimensions of the cross are formally established since 1889: "The coat of arms of the federation is, within a red field, an upright white cross, whose [four] arms of equal length are a sixth longer than their width."[1].
The size of the cross in relation to the field is not formally established except on the naval ensign. A relation of 2:3 or 7:10 to the span of the flag is usual. The hue of red is also not formally defined; a light red is most commonly used.
The Swiss flag is based on the flag of the Canton of Schwyz. Schwyz (German Schwyz) is a canton in central Switzerland between Lake Lucerne in the south and Lake Zurich in the north. ...
Origin
Legends and history The ultimate origin of the white cross is attributed by three competing legends: To the Theban Legion, to the Reichssturmfahne attested from the 12th century, and to the Arma Christi that were especially venerated in the three forest cantons, and which they were allegedly allowed to display on the formerly uniformly red battle flag from 1289 by king Rudolph I of Habsburg at the occasion of a campaign to Besançon. The Theban legion figures in hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men — who had converted to Christianity and were martyred together, in 286 A.D., according to the hagiographies of Saint Maurice, the chief among the Legions saints. ...
(11th century - 12th century - 13th century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 12th century was that century which lasted from 1101 to 1200. ...
Christ as Man of Sorrows between Four Angels, Master E. S., c 1460, engraving, Cabinet of Prints and Drawings, Dresden The Arma Christi or Weapons of Christ is a baroque title for the Instruments of the Passion. ...
The three forest cantons (drei Waldstätten) is the collective term for the original founding cantons of the Old Swiss Confederacy in 1291, Uri, Schwyz and Unterwalden, all of them situated at Lake Lucerne, in German called Vierwaldstättersee lake of the four forest cantons, referring to the three cantons...
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The brass of the tomb of Rudolph I in Speyer Rudolph I (Rudolph of Habsburg) (May 1, 1218 – July 15, 1291) was a German king, who played a vital role in raising the Habsburg family to a leading position among the royal dynasties of Germany. ...
Location within France Besançon is a French city in the département of Doubs, of which it is the préfecture. ...
The oldest surviving specimen of a flag of Schwyz dates to the Burgundy wars (1474–77). The illustrated chronicles show an asymmetrical white cross, drawn in greater detail, including the body of Christ, and the equilateral cross became predominant only in the later 17th century. The Burgundy Wars were a conflict between the House of Habsburg and the Valois Dynasty, in which the Old Swiss Confederacy got involved and would play a decisive role. ...
Events and Trends battle of Avenches 1476 Prominent Persons Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician A map of Europe in the 1470s. ...
Several illustrated chronicles were created in the Old Swiss Confederacy in the 15th and 16th centuries. ...
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(16th century - 17th century - 18th century - more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 17th century was that century which lasted from 1601-1700. ...
Use of a white cross as a mark of identification of the combined troops of the Old Swiss Confederacy is first attested in the Battle of Laupen (1339), were it was sown on combatants' clothing as two stripes of textile, contrasting with the red St. George's cross of Habsburg Austria, and with the St. Andrew's cross used by Burgundy and Maximilian I. 1550 illustration for the Sempacherbrief of 1393, one of the major alliance contracts of the Old Swiss Confederacy The Old Swiss Confederacy was the precursor of modern-day Switzerland. ...
Illustration of the Battle of Laupen (by Diebold Schilling the Elder, 1480s). ...
Events Emperor Go-Murakami ascends to the throne of Japan Kashmir is conquered by the muslims Births July 23 - King Louis I of Naples (d. ...
The St Georges cross, a red cross on a white background, is the national flag of England and has been since about 1277. ...
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Civilian use of the white cross as a symbol of the confederacy is attested from the 16th century. From the 17th century, the white cross was carried on the banners of all cantonal troops, on the background of the cantonal colours.
General Niklaus Franz von Bachmann used the white cross in a red field in 1800 and 1815, and following this use, the symbol was adopted as national symbol in the federal contract of 1815 (see also Switzerland in the Napoleonic era). 1800 (MDCCC) was an common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...
The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
The Battle of New Orleans 1815 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
During the French Revolutionary Wars, the revolutionary armies boiled eastward, enveloping Switzerland in their battles against Austria. ...
Modern Switzerland General Guillaume-Henri Dufour proposed use of the flag for the federal forces in 1840, and in 1889 the federal council defined the 1/6th proportion of the cross's members, while the ratio of the cross to the square field, or the shield in the case of the coat of arms, remained unspecified. Categories: People stubs | 1787 births | 1875 deaths | Swiss generals | Swiss cartographers ...
1840 is a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ...
 Swiss flag at the base of the Churfirsten of the North-Eastern Swiss Alps. Image File history File linksMetadata Swissflag. ...
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This article focuses on the part of the Alps and Pré-Alps that is located in North-Eastern Switzerland. ...
Red Cross The Red Cross symbol used by the International Committee of the Red Cross is based on the Swiss flag. The Red Cross on white background was the original protection symbol declared at the 1864 Geneva Convention. It is, in terms of its color, a reversal of the Swiss national flag, a meaning which was adopted to honor Swiss native and Red Cross founder Henry Dunant. The symbols of the Movement - The Red Cross and the Red Crescent emblems at the museum in Geneva. ...
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a committee of Swiss nationals and probably will be so as long as the ICRC exists. ...
1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ...
The Geneva Conventions consist of treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland that set the standards for international law for humanitarian concerns. ...
Dunant as an elderly man Jean Henri Dunant (May 8, 1828 in Geneva - October 30, 1910 in Heiden), also known as Henry Dunant or Henri Dunant, was a Swiss businessman and social activist. ...
See also -1...
This is a list of all flags available here, mostly national and regional flags. ...
Swiss coat of arms. ...
External links Screenshot of the Flags of the World website Official flag Flags of the World (or FOTW) is the Internets largest website devoted to vexillology, containing comprehensive information about all kinds of flags. ...
References - ^ Federal decision of 12 December 1889 on the bearings of the coat of arms
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