French tricolour flag
Indian tricolour flag.
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A tricolour or tricolor (three colours) is a flag or banner more-or-less equally divided (horizontally, vertically, or, less frequently, diagonally) into three bands of differing colors. A flag is a piece of Cloth, often flown from a pole or mast, generally used Symbolically for signaling or identification A banner is a Flag or other piece of cloth bearing a symbol logo slogan or other message The term is somewhat misleading, as many tricolours have more than three colors, as they are often charged with contrasting emblems (the flag of India as a prominent example). In Heraldry and Vexillology, a charge is an image occupying the field on an escutcheon (or shield "Indian flag" redirects here For flags used by Native American peoples see the tribes' respective articles, for example the Navajo Nation.
Besides carrying an emblem, another means by which a tricolour may have more than three colours is through the use of fimbriation: the separation of colours on a flag by a narrow contrasting stripe. In Heraldry and Vexillology, fimbriation refers to small strips of colour (technically called " tincture " in this sense in heraldry placed around In a fimbriated tricolour, the three broad bands are separated by two thin stripes on either side of the central band. Flags of this type include the flags of Uzbekistan, Kenya, North Korea, and Gambia. The flag of Uzbekistan was approved at the Seventh Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Uzbekistan on November 18, 1991 The flag of Kenya was officially adopted on December 12, 1963. The Flag of North Korea was adopted on September 8 1948 Citation needed, as the national flag and ensign. The National flag of Gambia, designed by Pa Louis Thomasi consists of a horizontal tricolour of red blue and green
One of the first tricolours and the oldest tricolour still in use today is the flag of the Netherlands; one of the first vertical tricolours is the tricolore of France. The Flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal Tricolour of Red, White, and Blue. The Netherlands ( Dutch:, ˈnedərlɑnt is the European part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, which consists of the Netherlands the Netherlands The National flag of France (known in French as drapeau tricolore, drapeau français,and in military parlance les couleurs This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
Variety of triband
The tricolour is a specific type of triband. The triband is one of the most common designs of Flag, and is the design of some 30% of all current national flags In a triband, the design is of three vertical, horizontal, or diagonal stripes, often formed — from an heraldic point of view — by the placement of a horizontal or vertical stripe (a pale or a fess, respectively), over a background. A pale is a territory or Jurisdiction (possibly non-territorial under a given authority or the limits of such a jurisdiction FESS is also an acronym for Functional endoscopic sinus surgery. The triband may thus have two stripes of the same colour split by a stripe of a second colour (examples of this include the flags of Austria, Canada, and Spain). The flag of Austria has three equal horizontal bands of red (top white and red The National Flag of Canada, also known as the Maple Leaf, and fr l'Unifolié ( French for "the one-leafed" is a red Flag
In a tricolour, the two outer stripes are of different colours. They can thus be seen as a subset of tribands.
Additional meanings
Vexillologists also occasionally describe flags of which the main element is three stripes as being "based on a tricolour (or triband) design". Vexillology is the scholarly study of Flags The word is a synthesis of the Latin word Vexillum and the suffix –''ology'', meaning "study Flags such as the flag of the Bahamas and the Palestinian flag fall into this category. The Flag of the Bahamas has an approximately 12 aspect ratio The black equilateral triangle on the left represents the unity and determination of the people of the Bahamas The Palestinian flag ( علم فلسطين) was originally designed by Sharif Hussein for the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916
Some vexillologists take the meaning of the term at its barest, and simply use it to describe any flag containing just three colours, irrespective of the design. Thus, the flags of the United States and the United Kingdom might be described as tricolours. Flags of the United States The Flag of the United States of America consists of 13 equal horizontal stripes of Red (top and bottom alternating The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland uses as its national flag the royal banner locally known as the Union Flag or popularly Union Jack
Examples
See also
The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian Tricolour (known in Armenian as եռագույն Erraguyn) consists of three horizontal bands of equal width "Indian flag" redirects here For flags used by Native American peoples see the tribes' respective articles, for example the Navajo Nation. The Flag of the Netherlands is a horizontal Tricolour of Red, White, and Blue. The National flag of France (known in French as drapeau tricolore, drapeau français,and in military parlance les couleurs The flag of Serbia is a Tricolour with Pan-Slavic colours, with three equal horizontal fields Red on the top Blue in the middle The Ikurriña flag is a Basque symbol and the official flag of the Basque Country Autonomous Community of Spain The flag of Germany is a Tricolour consisting of three equal horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Germany: Black, 1 Black flag Green flag Flag of Libya Flag of the Sultanate of Muscat The triband is one of the most common designs of Flag, and is the design of some 30% of all current national flags The Pan-Arab colors are Red, Black, White, and Green and have their origins in the flag of the Arab Revolt. Two different sets of three colours are referred to as the Pan-African colours: the green gold and red first used in the Flag of Ethiopia; (Ghana was the first This is a gallery of triband flags showing horizontal vertical and diagonal tricolour and bicolour tribands.
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