The "flag of Skåneland", or the Scanian Cross Flag is a provincial flag, representing Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden. Scania ( in Swedish and Danish) is a geographical region on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a traditional province ( "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation.
The official regional flag is a banner of arms of the region of Scania (i. e. the county council), adopted 9 February 1999: On a field of blue a yellow crowned griffin head issuing from the bottom edge. The county of Skåne, Skåne län, has also an official flag consisting of a banner of arms: On a field of yellow a red griffin head, crowned blue. Skåne County ( Skåne län) is the southernmost county or Län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province A banner is a Flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol logo slogan or other message
The cross flag is used by the Region when the Council is in session, alongside with the Swedish national flag, the European Union flag and the Council's own banner.
The Scanian cross flag is believed to have been created in 1902 at the private initiative of the historian Mathias Weibull, who based his design on the Scandinavian tradition of cross flags. Year 1902 ( MCMII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting It combines the red field of the flag of Denmark with the yellow cross of the flag of Sweden, reflecting the troubled history of the region. The national flag of Denmark, Dannebrog, is red with a white Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag the vertical part of the List of flags of Sweden The Flag of Sweden (Sveriges flagga is blue with a yellow Scandinavian cross that extends to the edges of the flag
A very disputed hypothesis claims that the flag is derived from the coat of arms of the Danish Archbishop of Lund, the Archbishop for all the Nordic countries from about 1100 until the separate Norwegian archdiocese was established in 1152 and the Swedish archdiocese in 1163. The Diocese of Lund is the southernmost diocese in the Church of Sweden. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. His seat was in Lund in present southern Sweden, but in 1536 the archbishop was demoted to an ordinary bishop as a result of the reformation. (lɵnd is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town has 76188 inhabitants out of a muncipal total of 105000 The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time However, there is no evidence that this coat of arms or the corresponding banner was ever used by him. On the contrary, all sources agree that the archiepiscopal coat of arms depicted the gridiron of St. Lawrence, the patron saint of the Lund Cathedral. The Lund Cathedral (Lunds Domkyrka Lund Domkirke is the Lutheran Cathedral in Lund, Scania, Sweden. This is still the coat of arms of the present diocese of Lund.
Similar flags
A flag of similar design; with a yellow cross on a red field, was proposed as the flag of Finland before that country settled for its present blue cross on white. Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It is sometimes used as an unofficial flag by the Swedish-speaking minority in Finland. The flag of the Swedish-speaking Finns is an unofficial red Flag with a yellow cross used in the Swedish -speaking parts of Finland to represent The same colours appear in the Finnish coat of arms.
The same design, with proportions similar to those of the Swedish flag, was the official flag of the Norwegian Nazi party Nasjonal Samling from 1933 until its dissolution in 1945. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Nazism, which was a short name for National Socialism (Nationalsozialismus refers primarily to the Ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Nasjonal Samling (Norwegian for "National Gathering" or "National Unification" hereafter abbreviated as NS was a fascist party in Norway Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Red and yellow were considered the national colours of Norway, because they are found in the country's coat of arms. Norwegian myths claim that a yellow, or golden cross on a red background was used as King Olav Haraldson's personal shield until his death at the battle of Stiklestad in AD 1030. The Battle of Stiklestad ( Old Norse Stiklarstaðir) in 1030 is one of the most famous battles in the history of Norway. This connection made the flag interesting to Quisling who saw his work as a continuation of King Olav's. Quisling, after Norwegian politician Vidkun Quisling, who assisted Nazi Germany to conquer his own country is a term used to describe traitors and