Proposed new flag of Sicily

[Mens-Sarda]

Then why do nationalist parties such as PSd'Az use the blindfolded Moors flag?

habit, tradition, bureaucracy, difficulty to modify a party symbol, honestly I don't know, but the blindfolded Moors appeared during the Piedmontese government, before that period the were not blindfolded, also the single Moor on Corsican flag is not blindfolded, or the Moors on the Aragonese flag


however the PSd'Az among the various nationalist parties is the less nationalist, others usually use the not blindfolded flag, or totally reject it because the Moors flag has Aragonese origin, others use the Arborea crest on the flag (Arborea was one of the four Sardinian nations before the Aragonese conquest)



flag with Arborea crest

[alfieb]

habit, tradition, bureaucracy, difficulty to modify a party symbol, honestly I don't know, but the blindfolded Moors appeared during the Piedmontese government, before that period the were not blindfolded, also the single Moor on Corsican flag is not blindfolded, or the Moors on the Aragonese flag

This was the Corsican flag before 1755

[Mens-Sarda]

this is what Wikipedia says, I think that Corsican flag had a similar history and was depicted in various ways according to the various artist who depicted it :

Over the centuries the flag or coat of arms of the four Moors were depicted in various ways: without bandage, with blindfold or forehead, facing to luff or to fly end, or crowned, with no moors, in reverse, and this according to the mode of the charged artist, such as that under the leadership of Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbaran represented in the Palacio del Buen Retiro in Madrid. Throughout the period of the Iberian monarchies the original design of the bandages on his forehead is respected.
During the Savoy House domain in the mid-18th century, instead, the iconography of putting the blindfold over the eyes of the moors settled and continued to persist until 1999, within the flag of St. George, in every quarter and in the direction of the luff. The Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Sardinia clearly leads the four moors with the bandage on their foreheads. The blindfold appears in 1800: a probable error of a copyist or a deliberate "error" in protest. In 1952, the shield of the blindfolded eyes quattro mori became the official flag of the Autonomous Region and also adorned his banner (Decree of the President of the Republic of July 5, 1952). In 1999, a special regional law changed the flag of the Four Moors from the Kingdom of Sardinia-Savoy version to that original one as described in the introduction.

[alfieb]

Interesting. The Trinacria flag likewise varied over the centuries between whether red or yellow was on top or bottom.

[Alexandros]

And the next step :

[alfieb]

And the next step :

Sad that you post a half-dozen flags and the one that your country actually uses is the ugliest of the bunch.

[Alexandros]

Sad that you post a half-dozen flags and the one that your country actually uses is the ugliest of the bunch.

[alfieb]

I love Greece as much as the next wog obsessed with history, but the flag is boring. Every Byzantine-era flag I've seen would be an improvement.

[Daniele90]

Ugliest of the bunch, the Greek one?
It's one of the best in Europe..

And it doesn't look tacky, unlike some European flags