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• Afrikaans • Ænglisc • العربية • Asturianu • Azərbaycanca • Беларуская • Беларуская (тарашкевіца) • Български • Bosanski • Brezhoneg • Català • Čeština • Cymraeg • Dansk • Deutsch • Eesti • Ελληνικά • Español • Euskara • فارسی • Français • Galego • 한국어 • Հայերեն • Hrvatski • Bahasa Indonesia • עברית • ქართული • Kiswahili • Lietuvių • Magyar • Македонски • Bahasa Melayu • Nederlands • 日本語 • Norsk bokmål • Norsk nynorsk • Polski • Português • Română • Русский • Scots • Shqip • Simple English • Slovenčina • Српски / srpski • Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски • Suomi • Svenska • ไทย • Türkçe • Українська • Tiếng Việt • 吴语 • Yorùbá • 中文 The flag of England is the national flag of Argent, a cross gules). The association of the red cross as an emblem of England can be traced back to the It has been widely used since the 1990s, specifically at national sporting events, especially during the campaigns of England's national football teams. Origins In 1188 [ citation needed] Thirteenth-century authorities [ who?] are unanimous on this reversal to the intuitive. There then follows a historiographical tradition claiming that The St. George's flag, a red cross on a white field, was adopted by England and the City of London in 1190 for their ships entering the Mediterranean to benefit from the protection of the Genoese fleet. The English Monarch paid an annual tribute to the Red crosses seem to have been used as a distinguishing mark worn by English soldiers from the reign of pro peditibu...

Did You Know? The flag of Genoa, a city in Italy, is exactly the same as that of England. The flag of England is a white rectangle with a red cross separating it into four equal parts. The flag has a proportion of 3:5, which means that the width of the flag is 5x if the height of the flag is 3x. The meanings of the colors on the flag of England are: white for peace, and red for bravery and hardiness. England is one of the states in the United Kingdom. As such, officially it has no flag of its own, and uses the Union Jack (the flag of the United Kingdom) as its flag. However, the states of the United Kingdom also have a fairly independent presence in many fields. For purposes that are not political, the flag of England is sometimes used. It is mostly used in sporting events, where all the four states of the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) usually participate separately. The English flag is just the St. George’s Cross, used without any alteration. History St. George’s Cross originated around the medieval period as the symbol of the ‘warrior saint’ Saint George. This was based on a legend telling the story of how St. George defeated a dragon that was terrorizing a village and was asking for human sacrifices, including the beautiful princess. The origin of the Cross and, particularly, its association with St. George probably occurred in the Republic of Genoa. The rulers of Genoa had adopted Saint George as the patron saint of the city in the 12 th c...