Flags of Forgotten Countries
A fascinating look at the flags and banners of countries that no longer exist.
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File:Flag of the United Provinces of Central America.svg - Wikimedia Commons
The Federal Republic of Central America, originally known as known as the United Provinces of Central America, was created in 1823 from the former territory of the Captaincy General of Guatemala, an administrative division of the Spanish Empire covering much of the region. The republic included the modern countries of Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, but the union dissolved in a civil war between 1838 and 1840.
File:Flag of Manchukuo.svg - Wikipedia
In Asia in World War II, the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo was located in Manchuria and parts of Inner Mongolia. Established in 1932, the government was headed by Puyi, the last emperor of China, until the end of the Manchukuo state following the defeat of Japan in 1945.
File:Bowman Coat of Arms.svg - Wikimedia Commons
Australian flag’s dates from 1901, but the oldest known Australian flag appeared almost a century earlier. The Bowman Flag was created in 1806 and raised at their home in New South Wales to commemorate Nelson’s victory at Trafalgar in October 1805. The flag features the English rose, Scottish thistle, and Irish shamrock, along with Nelson’s famous motto from the battle ‘England expects that every man will do his duty’, flanked by the emu and kangaroo, symbols of Australia.
The Ottoman Empire was founded in the early fourteenth century and came to an end after World War I. At the height of its power in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the empire controlled North Africa, Western Asia and most of South Eastern Europe. Various flags were used within the Empire throughout its existence and the sultans also used different personal banners. This flag was used by the Ottoman army for three hundred years from the mid fifteenth century.
When the people of South America rebelled against Spanish rule in the early nineteenth century, one of the early republics was Gran Colombia, which included much of northern South America and a small portion of southern Central America from 1819 to 1831. It later split up into the countries we know today as Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.
The Empire of Brazil, under the rule of Emperors Pedro I and Pedro II, existed from 1822 until 1889. After the occupation of Portugal by Napoleon, the royal family fled to exile in Brazil, their most important colony. After the fall of Napoleon, Brazil became independent of Portugal, but kept a member of the royal family as the head of state.
In World War Two, following the fall of Mussolini in 1943 and the subsequent defection of Italy from the Axis cause, Germany took control of northern and central Italy. The puppet state established by Mussolini on Lake Garda, halfway between Milan and Venice, was informally known as the Salo Republic, which came to an end in April 1945.
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