The Origins Of National Flags - Flags Explained

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Having a country flag may be an obvious thing, but for a long time it wasn't. There isn't really one point in time, or even one place, where the idea evolved. It evolved over hundreds of years and flags were used in different ways in different places. This is how we (probably) got to have the idea of a national flag.

Did you know flags probably evolved from military standards? And that the colour red was synonymous with protest before it was synonymous with communism? The word for the study of flags, vexillology, has its origins in the vexillum - a Roman standard.

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