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They are popular among ethnic minorities and some ethnic majorities, especially in multi-ethnic countries.
Some ethnic flags are banned by the central governments of a nation because they also serve as the flags of separatist groups, or groups perceived as such by the prevailing authorities.
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- Note: Flag of ethnic Somalis in the North Eastern Province of Kenya who are agitating for independence from that country to go and join their fellow Somalis in a Greater Somalia.
- This is the flag of the Oromo Liberation Front.
- Berbers
- Ashanti people (Ghana)
- Bakonjo People (Uganda-Dem. Rep. Congo)
- The term Aryan is sometimes used as a synonym for Indo-European people, i.e., a mega-ethnic group composed of "the early speakers of Proto-Indo European and their descendents" . This is the original meaning of the term Aryan in English. See: Mish, Frederic C., Editor in Chief Webster's Tenth New Collegiate Dictionary Springfield, Massachuetts, U.S.A.:1994--Merriam-Webster Page 66
- This is the Cape Colony flag.
- Znaimerowski, p236
- Quechua flag:
- The Mulatto People website:
- Link to site with picture of the mulatto flag:
- Richard "Warbird" Miller invented the Mulatto Flag:
- Znaimerowski, p236
- Criollo flag is identified as being identical to the Bolivian flag:
- This was the flag of the Riograndense Republic
- This is the Eureka Stockade flag.
- This is the New Zealand flag proposed in 1834.
- Znaimerowski, p237
- Znaimerowski, p238
- Znaimerowski, p237
- Znaimerowski, p237
- On page 303 of the book Flags: Through The Ages and Across the World by Whitney Smith (New York:1975 McGraw Hill), the ethnic flag of the Sindhis is shown as being a banner with no insignia whatsoever that is completely colored plain goldenrod (Presumably the goldenrod banner represents both Muslim and Hindu Sindhis.).
- This is the flag of the Maratha Empire.
- This flag is called the Bhagwa Jenda and represents the Hindu deity Shiva:
- Znaimerowski, p237
- Znaimerowski, p238
- Znaimerowski, p237
- The flag reproduced above is the Flag of Bosnia when it was independent during the year 1878.
See also
- Flags of unrecognized states
- Flags of formerly independent states
- Flags of subnational entities
- Flags of micronations
- Flags of active autonomist and secessionist movements
- List of cultural flags
- Rainbow flag
- Vexillology
References
- Znaimerowski, Alfred (2001). The World Encyclopedia of Flags. London: Hermes House.
External links
Afro-Asiatic
Chadic
- Hausa ethnic flag: Hausa (Northern Nigeria, Nigeria and Southeastern Niger)
Berber
- Tuareg ethnic flag: Tuaregs (Algeria, Mali, Niger, Libya, and Burkina Faso)
Niger-Congo
- Yoruba ethnic flags (two versions—one blue and one red, green, and black): Yorubas (Southern Nigeria, Nigeria)
- Kongo ethnic flag: Kongo (Congo (Kinshasa), Congo (Brazzaville), Angola, Gabon)
- Zulu ethnic flag: Zulus (Kwazulu, South Africa)
- Xhosa ethnic flag: Xhosas (Eastern Cape, South Africa)
Altaic
Mongolic
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Austroasiatic
Munda
- Munda ethnic flag: Mundas (Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal, Chhatisgarh, and Orissa, India)
Austronesian
Malayan
- Javanese ethnic flag (Two versions: gold and red): Javanese (Indonesia)
- Ethnic flag of the Javanese of the Autonomous Sultanate of Yogyakarta: Javanese of the Autonomous Sultanate of Yogyakarta (Yogyakarta, Indonesia)
- Balinese ethnic flag: Balinese (Bali, Indonesia)
Polynesian
Dravidian
- Kannada ethnic flag: Kannadas (Karnataka, India)
- Malayalam ethnic flag: Malayalams (Kerala, India)
- Telugu ethnic flag: Telugus (Andhra Pradesh, India)
Indo-European
Indo-Aryan
- Hindi ethnic flag: Hindis (Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, and Haryana, India)
- Ethnic flag of the Hindis of Bihar: Biharis (Bihar, India)
- West Bengali ethnic flag: West Bengalis (West Bengal, India)
- Gujarati ethnic flag: Gujaratis (Gujarat, India)
- Assamese ethnic flag: Assamese (Assam, India)
- Oriya ethnic flag: Oriyas (Orissa, India)
- Hindu Sindhi flag: Sindhis (Hindu)
Iranic
- Persian ethnic flag: Persians, Iran
- Baluchi flag: Baluchis (Baluchistan, divided among Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran)
References for external links
- Note: Although the Hazara speak a dialect of Persian, genetic analysis has shown they are primarily of Mongol origin, with some Turkic admixture (See article on the Hazara people for references.).
- The colors red, white, and blue on the Balinese ethnic flag represent respectively the Hindu deities Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva.
- Note: the Hindi ethnic flag is used as the national flag of the imaginary nation of “Bharatij Samrazj” in the Ill Bethisad alternate universe timeline wiki, linked to above.
- Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas, Hitler's Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism (New York University Press, 1998, hardcover: ISBN 0-8147-3110-4, paperback: ISBN 0-8147-3111-2 Plate 3, between Pages 80 and 81, shows a picture of the Hindi ethnic flag (“Pan Hindu National Flag”)
- Swastika@Everything2.com
- Note: the Bihari ethnic flag is used as the national flag of the imaginary nation of “Ajodhja” in the Ill Bethisad alternate universe timeline.
- The flag displayed above is that of the Safavid Dynasty 1577-1665:
- Flags of Safavid Dynasty 1501-1736: