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The flag of Cuba influenced the design of the flag of Puerto Rico; the blue and red are reversed and the dimensions are 3:2.
The flag of Cuba influenced the design of the flag of the Philippines as Cuba's revolution against Spain inspired, to some degree, the Philippine Revolution.
The flag of Cuba also influenced the design of the "Lone Star flag" (Estelada) of the Catalan movement for independence from Spain; the numerous Catalan residents in Cuba during the independence process added a blue triangle with a white star to the national flag to design a battle flag for the independence movement in Catalonia.
www.thinkingaustralia.com /thinking_australia/wikipedia/default.php?title=Flag_of_Cuba   (442 words)

  
 Catalan Nationalist Flags (Spain)
I saw this flag in the Pyrenées-Orientales (French department roughly corresponding to the Roussillon region, i.e.
This flag is used by Catalan independentist leftist nationalists who propose the creation of an independent Republic of the Catalan Countries containing all Catalan-speaking territories [so-called Països Catalans, Catalan Countries], that is to say Catalonia, Valencia, Balearic Islands, Rousillion [France] and Alghero in Sardinia [Italy].
This flag was adopted for the PSAN (National Liberation Socialist Party) in 1976, when a fraction of the party left to create the MUM, which retained the old PSAN flag (white triangle).
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/es}ct.html   (677 words)

  
 cuba flag history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The flag of Cuba also influenced the design of the "Lone Star flag" (Estelada) of the Catalan movement...
An insight of Cuban emblems and flags, including history of present flag, old flags and coat of arms of regions and cities with description on each.
The ironic similarity between the "Lone Star" flag of Cuba and the Stars and Stripes of its...
www.about-history.info /cuba-flag-history.aspx   (204 words)

  
 Catalonia (Spain)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The confusion arises from the use of the same colours as in the Spanish flag.
I saw in an encyclopedia a flag where the blue triangle of the estelada was replaced by a blue rectangle with always a white star on it.
It was said that this flag was the one of the Generalitat de Catalunya under the 1930s Spanish Republic.
www.netlinkit.dk /FOTW/flags/es-ct.html   (1037 words)

  
 Estelada information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Its design is, probably, of Vicenç Albert Ballester, where the blue triangle signifies the blue sky of humanity, and in its centre, the white star symbolizes freedom.
The “estelada” flag goes on to appear in other Catalan separatist publications.
During the sixties, in the university section of the FNC, there is an internal split named Partit Socialista d’Alliberament Nacional dels Països Catalans, (Socialist Party for the National Liberation of the Catalan Countries) (PSAN).
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Estelada   (1218 words)

  
 Unbenanntes Dokument   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The symbol of the bars (the flag of the four bars) appears for first time on the weapons and the shield of Ramon Berenguer IV (XII century).
But the country will take is slowly as its own until it became one of the first national flags, making/becoming the Catalan flag one of the oldest in Europe.
The Estelada was born in 1928, and it is the flag that symbolizes the struggle for freedom.
www.irishrepublicansolidarity.de /campaign/campaign.html   (4164 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Catalan Countries' fight, forward to freedom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In 1969 appears the estelada of the red star of socialist tendency.
....the Catalan flag -four red stripes on a yellow backdrop- is one of the oldest national flags in Europe.
It is refused our right to compete with our own team and under our own flag in sports, even thought we are internationally recognised as a strong sports influence.We are many the Catalans that believe that it is necessary the recognition of Catalonia as a self-ruling people.
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2005/02/305622.html   (1990 words)

  
 Catalonia (Catalunya)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The first, the Senyera, is the recognised national symbol and banner of the devolved Catalan autonomous region of Spain; the other, the Estelada, is the independentist banner.
Spain being as it is, you'll see both flags aplenty when Barcelona FC takes to the field.
Catalan is also spoken in the Balearic Islands and a coastal town of Sardinia, and extends across the Pyrenees into the French region of Rousillon.
members.optusnet.com.au /~dploy/stateless/catalan.html   (94 words)

  
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www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Flags_of_non-sovereign_nations   (1390 words)

  
 Galicia (Galiza)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Galicians speak a Romance language similar to Portuguese, but with certain Celtic loanwords and other cultural influences provided by immigrant Britons in the 5th and 6th centuries AD (see Brittany).
Their homeland is in north-western Spain, and you'll see this flag much in evidence when the soccer team Deportivo La Coruña plays.
There is also a version with an added red star, which apparently denotes a more radical, socialist bent, similar to the Catalan Estelada.
members.optusnet.com.au /~dploy/stateless/galicia.html   (85 words)

  
 Catalan Solidarity Day Of Action - Indymedia Ireland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Catalan flag (Estelada) was hoisted over Free Derry Corner in Derry’s Bogside as a symbolic gesture of solidarity to the Catalan people.
April 1st 2006) the Catalan Solidarity: Ireland Committee held protest at Free Derry Corner as widespread demonstrations were taken place across Catalonia against the signing of Estatut.
Several protesters wore white masks on which the Spanish Flag was placed over their mouths, symbolizing the continual denial of the rights such as self-determination and sovereignty of the Catalan people as a nation.
www.indymedia.ie /article/75197   (304 words)

  
 Catalan Nationalist Flags (Spain)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Història de l'Estelada (History of the Estelada, Catalan text only)
The flag of Catalonia with a blue hoist triangle and white star in it, was designed around 1904 by Catalan nationalists who had returned from Cuba after its independence in 1902, taking the Cuban flag as model.
It was adopted as the flag of the Estat Catala (Catalan State) party, which proposed the creation of an independent Catalan state, th
www.flaggen.com /flags/es}ct.html   (82 words)

  
 Red Star - The best site to find out more about Red ; Red, Red Star, Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For the belgrade football club, see red star belgrade for all other uses, see red star.
The red star was used several flags and coats arms communist states, for example the flag former yugoslavia, and some separatist and socialist movements, like estelada flag catalan countries.
The red star pentagram without the inner pentagon symbol communism and socialism and represents the five fingers the worker hand, well the five continents traditionally.
www.worthasgold.com /red-star/index.html   (742 words)

  
 Sergi & Eva blog » Blog Archive » Príosún Chill Mhaighneann   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Nomes us penjem aquestes quatre fotos i us diem que el guia ho portava molt a dins.(El Sergi portava un pin amb l’estelada, i el guia que s’hi va fixar, al acabar la visita li va preguntar d’on era… no cal que us diguem que li va dir…).
IRISHMEN and IRISHWOMEN: In the name of God and the dead generations from which she recives her old tradition of nationhood, Ireland, through us, summons her children to her flag and strikes for her freedom.
Having organised and trained her manhood through her secret revolutionary organisation, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, and through her open military organisations, the Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army, having patiently… … …
pof.eslack.org /~sergi/2005/09/26/priosun-chill-mhaighneann   (316 words)

  
 ☞ Catalan living Magazine; RSS XML Feed
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The catalonian flag named estelada (starry) was designed in the beginning of the 20th century by Catalan nationalists,...
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 David versus Goliath at thebadrash.com
Found a site with pictures of La Estelada taken around the world.
I love this picture - a massive Spanish flag (I think it’s the one that the PP put up in Madrid) with a tiny Estelada… classic Catalan humour (?!).
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 Relacions: Vexil.lologia
Publicació: It-Tarka u 'l-Bandiera/The Shield and the Flag
The Flags and Arms of the Modern Era
A Cursory Glance at Medieval Flags and Banners
personal.telefonica.terra.es /web/vexicat/relvexi.htm   (122 words)

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