National symbols

[Comte Arnau]

Post a collection of traditional symbols of your nation. :)

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I'm posting mine as an example. You may follow this format when possible. :thumb001:


National flag: The SENYERA (4 red stripes on golden background, oldest in Europe)
http://www.diariolanube.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bandera-senyera-catalana-Foto-ERC.jpg

National language: CATALAN (català)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/Gran_Enciclop%C3%A8dia_Catalana.jpg

National Day: 11th SEPTEMBER
http://www.socialistes.cat/files/thumbs/gallery/post_11_de_setembre_634x425x337_v2.jpg

National Animal: The WYVERN (la víbria)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Stendardo_del_re_d%27Aragona.png
http://blog.cat/gallery/9265/9265-63441.jpg

National Flower: The WEAVER'S BROOM (la ginesta)
http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/9489/ginesta.jpg

National Dance: The SARDANA
http://www.elgarrotxi.cat/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/576_1379890720sardanes_Barcelona-Foto_Adria_Costa-2013-031-500x307.jpg
http://s1.wklcdn.com/image_5/155338/2672664/1063693.jpg

National Instrument: The CATALAN SHAWM (Tenora, Tible, Gralla and Tarota)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDHzBTkabEo

National Anthem: The SEGADORS (Song of the Reapers)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_muutTM66HM

National Costume: The HEREU (heir) and PUBILLA (maiden) costumes.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ibig1sci384/S_T33gSOuMI/AAAAAAAAAMo/DEaNm-uU4FM/s1600/hereu+i+pubilla%5B1%5D.jpg
http://oi25.tinypic.com/ot0o41.jpg
http://ep01.epimg.net/elpais/imagenes/2008/06/23/actualidad/1214203730_850215_0000000000_sumario_normal.jpg

National Virgin: Our Lady of MONTSERRAT
http://pictures2.todocoleccion.net/tc/2011/07/27/28024748.jpg

National Patron Saint: Saint GEORGE (Sant Jordi), the Dragon Slayer
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oByZjM_d358/UXaxzCJEZNI/AAAAAAAASV8/c8XYyT73qOk/s1600/sant-jordi2.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3chB4k6RnC0/TnmYvfTiqrI/AAAAAAAABOc/9IKQYGWAaaU/s640/Francesc+Catala-Roca+082a.jpg

National Tradition: The CASTELLS (Human Towers)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/3d10_fm_de_vilafranca.jpg
http://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/spider-castells.jpg

Father of the Nation: WILFRED the HAIRY (Guifré el Pilós, 840 AD - 890)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/Estatua_de_guifre_el_pilos_%28venanci_vallmitjana% 29_destruida_pels_comunistes_el_1936.jpg

Father of the Language: RAMON LLULL (Raymond Luly, 1232 - 1316)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qTt5rFRpbNM/T1Gk0P9Z9wI/AAAAAAAAK1g/VRz4cn-ftaU/s1600/Ramon+Llull.jpeg

[Sisak]

Croatia: sah fields are about 5000 years old
http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=30703
http://i62.tinypic.com/2ag9jde.jpg
donkey
http://i60.tinypic.com/2lv0dw0.jpg
gold embroidery, oak and acorn
http://i60.tinypic.com/vxdwlx.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

donkey
http://i60.tinypic.com/2lv0dw0.jpg

Is it a specific breed of donkey?

I say this because here in the last decades some consider the Catalan donkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_donkey) a national animal now too, as it is a good old endangered animal.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HDYfmNuhRAE/TkMLXMWGqcI/AAAAAAAAAM8/IcoRJ9uUKF4/s1600/ruc_catal66767+%25282%2529.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YlMYhmCoOrs/SHzdr_9-t-I/AAAAAAAAAEI/8Ws7z97rbQY/s400/IMG_2170.JPG

[Sisak]

Is it a specific breed of donkey?

I say this because here in the last decades some consider the Catalan donkey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_donkey) a national animal now too, as it is a good old endangered animal.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HDYfmNuhRAE/TkMLXMWGqcI/AAAAAAAAAM8/IcoRJ9uUKF4/s1600/ruc_catal66767+%25282%2529.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YlMYhmCoOrs/SHzdr_9-t-I/AAAAAAAAAEI/8Ws7z97rbQY/s400/IMG_2170.JPG

Yes, this is native Istrian donkey "LIBURN' which is named after the tribe Liburnians.

[Comte Arnau]

Ok, I think I spotted it now. :)

http://cnyla.com/growing_up_ethnic_blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gue_005_croatian_donkey-300x255.jpg

[Sisak]

Istrian donkey may become extinct
https://www.change.org/petitions/help-the-reservation-of-donkeys-in-most-rasa-croatia

[Damião de Góis]

Some national symbols:

http://joelvalente.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/bandeira-nacional11.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2WSmK8hWtsQ/UObaCW0mGHI/AAAAAAAACtU/cgWHmoX8a2U/s640/PA2900302_galo_emiliarocha_medio.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/OrderOfCristCross.svg/512px-OrderOfCristCross.svg.png

http://upmagazine-tap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/GuitarraPortuguesa_rec.jpg

http://www.agroportal.pt/x/agronoticias/fotos/bacalhau2_GR.jpg

[Rudel]

Post a collection of traditional symbols of your nation. :)

...
I'm posting mine as an example. You may follow this format when possible. :thumb001:


National flag: The SENYERA (4 red stripes on golden background, oldest in Europe)
http://www.diariolanube.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bandera-senyera-catalana-Foto-ERC.jpg
Implying it wasn't "borrowed" from Provence :rolleyes:

(And Miss Nacio Catalana is hot.)

[wvwvw]

Ok, I think I spotted it now. :)

http://cnyla.com/growing_up_ethnic_blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/gue_005_croatian_donkey-300x255.jpg

Is this really a Catalan donkey ? it looks Celtic or Irish

[Graham]

National symbols of Scotland
The floral emblem of Scotland -- Thistle
http://www.scottish-at-heart.com/images/thistle_color.jpg
National Flag -- Patron Saint St Andrew
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Politics/Pix/pictures/2012/1/11/1326283311303/Scotland-flag-007.jpg
Royal Standard of Scotland -- Lion Rampant
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6140/5984259507_c3eefdb54f.jpg
Scottish Crown Jewels & Stone of Destiny
http://a3.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/85/73af91e5abcf57de9c5ffd6d1de4d19a/l.jpg
National Animal -- Unicorn
http://scotsindyquestion.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/the_unicorn_on_the_mercat_cross_edinburgh-14374757_std.jpg?w=210
Coat of Arms
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6083/6088960097_75eb51a9ef.jpg

[wvwvw]

The national animal of Greece is the dolphin. :eek:

http://www.travelandleisure.com/images/amexpub/0010/8297/200102-w-crisis-greece.jpg

Dolphins appear in a number of Greek myths, invariably as helpers of humankind.

Delphi was the site of the Delphic oracle, most important oracle in the classical Greek world, and it was a major site for the worship of the god Apollo.

Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the omphalos stone, the centre of the earth and the universe. In the inner hestia ("hearth") of the Temple of Apollo, an eternal flame burned. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.

The epithet is connected with dolphins (the "womb-fish") in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo (line 400), telling how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back.

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7364/9263434481_d03e6d6c2a_o.jpg
Hoplite Warriors Riding Dolphins

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WwxpG7pgYRo/Uw8us_hpPrI/AAAAAAAABKo/ti27C1q9jHQ/s1600/a+Ancient+dolphin+Greek+coin%25281%2529.jpg

http://www.theoi.com/image/P12.4CNereides.jpg

http://www.anneofcarversville.com/storage/Nike-onDolphin-3-6-10.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1317086436936
In ancient Greece, dolphins were seen as messengers for the gods. And while there was no knowledge of the fact that dolphins have lived on Planet Earth for 38-50 million years by current estimates, the mammals were revered and awarded ‘person’ status.

The clues to dolphins as ‘female’ are prolific in Greek and Roman art, and also in earlier Minoan artifacts:
http://www.minoanatlantis.com/pix/Minoan_Dolphins_Fresco_Art_Knossos_2.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Tarentum.jpg

http://rosenblumcoins.com/files/img/39e/087.jpg

[Graham]

Declaration of Arbroath
‘Yet if Bruce should give up what he has begun, and agree to make us or our kingdom subject to the King of England or the English, we should exert ourselves at once to drive him out as our enemy and a subverter of his own rights and ours, and make some other man who was well able to defend us our King;

For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule.

It is in truth not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom - for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.’

The Declaration of Arbroath is a declaration of Scottish independence, made in 1320. It is in the form of a letter submitted to Pope John XXII, dated 6 April 1320, intended to confirm Scotland's status as an independent, sovereign state and defending Scotland's right to use military action when unjustly attacked.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Declaration_of_arbroath.jpg/568px-Declaration_of_arbroath.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

Implying it wasn't "borrowed" from Provence :rolleyes:

Er.. you're joking, aren't you? :mmmm:


Is this really a Catalan donkey ? it looks Celtic or Irish

Just look at what it's wearing. It's a Croatian donkey! :)



National Animal -- Unicorn
http://scotsindyquestion.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/the_unicorn_on_the_mercat_cross_edinburgh-14374757_std.jpg?w=210
Coat of Arms
https://farm7.staticflickr.com/6083/6088960097_75eb51a9ef.jpg

It's funny that both Catalonia and Scotland have mythological figures, the wyvern and the unicorn. :D

[Atlantean]

This is my crest:
Republic of Ragusa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ragusa)
http://media.moddb.com/images/articles/1/96/95457/auto/dubrovnikgrb.png

This is me:
http://media2.valamar.com/CmsMedia/Destinacije/Dubrovnik/topici/Dubrovnik.jpg

Not a real country anymore, but what the hell. :D
Game of Thrones was filmed within my walls. :)

[Rudel]

Er.. you're joking, aren't you? :mmmm:
Not really. It's likely that the colors find their sources in the vexillological traditions of the Kingdom of Arles. But ultimately they are Roman colors.

But the arms as such did come from the House of Barcelona (and are still strictly the same, except that they're not oriented the same way when used on a standard as Catalonia follows the Medieval orientation).

[Kalimtari]

http://www.elgarrotxi.cat/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/576_1379890720sardanes_Barcelona-Foto_Adria_Costa-2013-031-500x307.jpg

ay, mi madre! :D

[Linebacker]

National Symbol
http://www.gotterdammerung.org/bulgaria/symbols/gerb.jpg

National Animal
http://kkimbro.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/bulgaria_lion.jpg

National Day - March 3rd
http://dariknews.bg/uploads/news_images/201103/photo_big_677844.jpg

Most popular celebration
http://latimesphoto.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/la-0106-pin02.jpg

[Comte Arnau]

Not really. It's likely that the colors find their sources in the vexillological traditions of the Kingdom of Arles. But ultimately they are Roman colors.

I guess that you're referring there to the theory of the Vatican origin.

That theory was proposed by an Aragonese historian time ago. You know that, both Catalonia and Aragon sharing the same flag since so old in time, the origin of it is a controversial issue between both territories. But the fact is that that theory has been ignored by most other serious historians and vexillologists, from both Catalonia and Aragon itself. Simply because the proof for that theory is almost non-existant. In short, reduced to the fact that the so-called lemniscus were red and gold, a typical combination of colours.

I admit I don't know much about the vexillological traditions of the Kingdom of Arles, but from what I know, heraldry didn't really exist before the 12th century.


But the arms as such did come from the House of Barcelona (and are still strictly the same, except that they're not oriented the same way when used on a standard as Catalonia follows the Medieval orientation).

That's indeed the undeniable fact. The four bars were the personal sign of Ramon Berenguer IV of the House of Barcelona and from him passed to his descendants.

[Crn Volk]

Macedonia

Macedonian flags

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WNNdNk01h4I/T10nATDEk6I/AAAAAAAAAZI/XUQeBI7leak/s1600/makflags.jpg

Coat of arms from 16th century

http://i49.tinypic.com/2hph9qs.jpg

Coat of arms of Macedonian Orthodox Church

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/Coat_of_arms_of_the_Macedonian_Orthodox_Church.png

Macedonian dog breeds

Karaman

http://www.philateca.com/img/8549_1305595362_1.jpg

Sarplaninec

http://i53.servimg.com/u/f53/12/83/28/68/logo111.png

Some national costumes

http://www.macedonia-timeless.com/images/SideGallery/3062-nosii%20kolaz.jpg

http://www.panacomp.net/uploaded/tanec/tanec-Povardarje.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-iKuzD5Q9vEQ/T_t1JeGibwI/AAAAAAAAEwA/DTpLDADNAEY/s1600/FDD14C88D1051443858EA14D32718F29.jpg

[Crn Volk]

Australia

National animal

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/files/2012/07/Kangaroo_1786273b.jpg

Coat of arms

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png/250px-Australian_Coat_of_Arms.png

National sport - Aussie rules football

http://cdn0.theroar.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/AFL-GWS-Swans-297x202.jpg

National food - meat pie

http://www.australian-information-stories.com/images/culture-food-pie-flag.jpg

Sydney

http://www.flightcentre.com.au/global-images/Product_Images/New/Cruise_Website/images/Destinations/Australia/Destinations_Australia_Sydney_OperaHouse_Bridge.jp g

Popular past time

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/05/31/1528718/australia1-420x0.jpg