by Michael Foley Photography

A Brief History of Flags

In this day and age, is the origin of the flag a very questionable matter, though flags were used as symbols thousands of years by ancient cultures. There is a section of people, the flags, believe that first emerged in China, while others, which was the Roman Empire, the “flag” the first true flag.

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Some people do not accept “flag” as the first true flag, because the original standards of the Roman legions were not flags. They were symbols such as eagle of Augustus Caesar’s X.. A military unit from Scythia used a dragon as a symbol, but it had a flexible tail, swirled in the wind. Legions took no time in copying the idea and ended with a flexible standard for himself is that our modern-day flag.

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