Since this video was kind of longer, here are some time-stamps for each country if you want to skip any of them: United Kingdom (1:15), Portugal (5:35), Belgium (7:35), Netherlands (8:35), Germany (10:15), France (11:35), Spain (13:35), Italy (16:05)
I am from Brazil and this White colonial flag is correct and also called "the flag of the principality of Brazil" and in fact it influenced the flag of the empire of Brazil and the flag of the Kingdom of Brazil (Part of the United Kingdom of Portugal Brazil and algarves formed during the Napoleonic Wars) that practically the same flag that was used in Colonial Brazil but with the Blue Fund. I add that the imperial flag was a fusion of Portuguese symbols and brasses of noble families that formed the empire. I hope I helped, great video by the way.
The flag you described as the earlier version of the British East India company, with the Union Jack in the upper left, and 13 red and white stripes in the rest of the flag, was also the colonial flag of the 13 colonies that later became the United States. All the independence movement did was to replace the Union Jack with a field of stars!
The Spanish empire did not have colonial flags because the overseas possessions were not considered colonies but regions of Spain with the inhabitants having exactly the same rights as the people in the metropolis. That was quite unique for the time
.... You know... That's not correct at all, lo vice-reino de la prata became independent and after dismantled because the spannish didn't gave them attention, they we're busy having parties etc... Just like the French....
@@tiagorodrigues179 they were occupied fighting against Napoleon but the Main reason why american spanish territories wanted their independence was becouse the landlords and the bit producers were anoyed becouse bourbons opened th market so everyone un the spanish empire could commerce . The Main supporters of the independence where criollos not the normal people
@@edudavila8475Yeah it's more that. If I'm not wrong the Spanish colonies we're exploration colonies... Spain extracted the resources and send them to... Spain... And didn't invest on the colonies territory.
The reason for Spain only using the national flag is becasue in the majority of the Spanish empire, the overseas territories werent colonies, they were part of the empire, wich meant they had the same laws as the main land.
Pero igual todos los gobernantes eran peninsulares, ni siquiera los criollos podían tener algún cargo administrativo, los españoles dicen que no fuimos colonias, pero ese era el trato que le daban a nuestras tierras
Spain considered his "Colonies" as overseas territories, like a weird extension of Spain itself but across the Atlantic, thats why the cultural impact was so deep among other things, The way they were ruled and the laws were virtually the same in both sides of the Atlantic for everyone (but yeah important jobs were mostly for Peninsulares, but still plenty of Criollos had a lot of power too , same as the nobility and landlords of Spain itself)
No llegaban a puestos tan altos como los peninsulares no por ser colonias o ser racistas sino que el rey prefería hacerlo con los que conocía los de España no va a dar un cargo importante a uno que está a miles de kilómetros sin conocerle de nada
Si basically Spaniards and their descendants were treated the same under the laws … But the majority of mestizo, mulattoes natives and African slaves were treated as less than humans
@@fzzy5739 I've no idea what being from Indonesia has to do with it - is your opinion more valid because you come from a previously colonised country? If that's your argument fair enough, but the population of Indonesia is over 273 million and I doubt that the majority of Indonesians agree with you. I also doubt that your ancestors would agree with you. You should be celebrating the fact that Indonesia has been an independent country for 75 years. If your country is able to have independence celebrations this year, (I don't know the current COVID-19 situation in Indonesia) are you going to sit at home dreaming of being recolonised by any one of almost half a dozen countries?
The Spanish Empire didn't had a flag for its overseas territories on America because it didn't considered them different to their European holdings and the notion of Nation-State was far from coming in the XV century, where it kick-started. All of Hispano-America and the Phillipines belonged to the Crown of Castille-Leon hence, when Charles III decided to use the current pattern of Gules and Gold (Red and Yellow), the dependencies followed suit. The blazons you have depicted were granted not to colonies, but to specific cities (Guatemala and Bogotá [then more formally called "Santa Fé"]. All of the now national capital cities of what became American republics have one.I think the one for P.R. was for the governor once the notion of Nation-State of the XIX was formed. Still, good video :)
Actually Florida once had its own flag in 1721 until 1732 it’s flag was like the Flag of Florida but it had a Shield the shield had a portrait of the King at the time and it had the X from Spain then having the Shield of Du la Plata
That's wrong, every good EU4 player knows a colonial flag is just the same flag as the overlord but the right side is a plain colour that depends on the location. Get your facts right.
Every CK player knows flags should be banners and family crests. These idea's of nation states borders to heresy and insubordination. As if peasants have anything to say in politics.
7:33 , I am from Brazil and this White colonial flag is correct and also called "the flag of the principality of Brazil" and in fact it influenced the flag of the empire of Brazil and the flag of the Kingdom of Brazil (Part of the United Kingdom of Portugal Brazil and algarves formed during the Napoleonic Wars) that practically the same flag that was used in Colonial Brazil but with the Blue Fund. I add that the imperial flag was a fusion of Portuguese symbols and brasses of noble families that formed the empire. I hope I helped, great video by the way.
@@peterdavy6110 I like Fiji's flag. It makes me forgive them for not doing anything when a bottled water company claims that the source their water from their, even though it's just tap water.
yes lol, the thing is that it was almost the only french african flag to have the specifity on his flag, all the other colonies had the normal french flag
So Australia summed up. Blue was used for government buildings, red for civil/public use. A few changes occurred until the passing of the 1953 Flags Act which stipulated the Blue flag would become the national flag and red would be for civilian maritime watercraft. The White ensign is only used on Her Majesty's Australian Ships (HMAS) of the Royal Australian Navy. It is an offence to fly this flag as a civilian. Hope this clarifies things for you. Great video!
I love how you mangled the pronunciation of VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) . You also read the name of Laos 🇱🇦 the Portugese way. Good work! Your videos are educational and fun to watch. 👍🏻 Keep up the good work.
The Kingdom of Hawaii, though never ruled by the British, liked the UK so much that they put the Union Jack in the corner. And it’s in the state flag of Hawaii even today!
Hahaha yeah, 'liked so much'. More like it was imposed on them by force, the same way the later Americans stole the islands despite previously guaranteeing their independence Delusional anglos 😂
@Adam Garratt Bruh, there was an original Hawaiian flag before the naive king 'adopted' the British colors. Quick Google search is all you need to do. You should actually research the topic before saying something like that, then you won't look like a complete moron.
@@forthepotentates7526 You realize that you're just saying that just to try to make yourself not look like a complete idiot who says the British are insane.
@@jagdpanther1944 You're not supposed to put any state flag above the USA's. The USA flag flies above all state flags and at equal level to all other National flags.
Good work! I have to mention, by the way, that Italy also had some sort of colony in Albania (actually a separate kingdom in a personal union) and Albania had its own flag in Italian (fascist) style
In Spanish coats of arms, a bucket with snakes represents economic wealth. The bucket, which actually is a pot, represents the ability of the fief lord to feed and maintain his own army. Snakes are there just for aesthetic purposes. Good video, greetings from Spain!
Spain didn't have flags for their territories (not colonies) because the tradition was that the king would grant a coat of arms to the most important cities. In addition, the flags of the municipalities consisted of the cross of burgundy with the coat of arms of the capital of the viceroyalty or captaincy at the four ends of the cross. In this way, the flag of New Spain was the cross with the CoA of Mexico City, New Granada was a cross with the CoA of Bogotá (the same one shown in the video), Peru was the cross with the CoA of the Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings, actually Lima), the same with the captaincy of Guatemala. The viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was an exception, since Buenos Aires never had a coat of arms given by the king.
More colonies doesn't automatically mean you are more successful, the dutch had the smallest empire yet they had a voc merchant fleet that was bigger then all the European powers. COMBINED. 50%of trade that came to europe came in on dutch ships wich made it the Netherlands the most wealthy country in the 17th century
@@br3menPT it wasn't even our goal to spread our beliefs, we didn't care about ideology. We just wanted to trade and make money, and we were the best at it, inventing the stockmarket wich gave us a huge advantage and inventing the wind powered sawmill, this way we could build ships 4x faster than anyone else and for half the cost. This eventually led to us having a merchant fleet larger than all the other European sea powers combined. We also invented to fluyt wich is still the best dedicated cargo ship of the age of sail. We were more traders and entrepreneurs, why would you colonize something that costs a lot of money time and manpower when you can setup a trading post and let some local rulers fight each other while you exploit their resources.
@@br3menPT for this reason alone we were granted special permission to trade with Japan during it 200 years of Isolation, the portuguese were kicked out because they smuggled in bibles and priests.
@@drpepper3838 I understand your point of view....but Portugal was the first one, they took a doctrine, a country, a religion, a language, a state, and usages to their oversea territoires and they treated the territoires as part of Portugal..the dutch were very surprised with that atitude in 17th century
There is a mistake. Spanish Viceroyalty's had their own flag. It was the Burgundian Cross on a white field, at the top of the four corners were the Coat of Arms of each region: New Spain's for example had the ancient Mexico City's emblem, the same case on New Granada Viceroyalty, Rio de la Plata, Capitania de Guatemala, etc.
Random Weeb are you from Spain because In Gran Colombia they had The same flags and I don’t really know anything about government unless your talking about Viceroy Gunray and I’m part Spanish but from Venezuela which was a Spanish Colony
@@howardthealien2606 The great Colombia never existed in reality, it only exists on paper for 10 years. What did exist and function for 300 years was the viceroyalty of New Granada. I'm Colombian.
At that time each power used certain flags and heraldry, it didn't have something like "a single official flag", the flag of the Spanish empire was the Burgundy Cross, the most common was the red one with a white background, but sometimes it was used with a yellow background, or white with a red background... The Tercios used flags with different geometric shapes to distinguish one Tercio from another... And navally, the ships used to carry a flag of the crown to which they belonged and the flag of the empire itself, sometimes they wore the Burgundy Cross with stripes
Dude, I'm Mexican. I know what I'm talking about. New Spain's flag was the Burgundian Cross on a white field, at the top of the four corners was the Mexico's City emblem (two rampant lions guarding a castle on the water, representing ancient Tenochtitlan). It wasn't yellow because no Tercio unit was assembled or sent to Mexico ever, in fact there was only volunteer militia guarding ports (like Campeche, Veracruz or Acapulco) or fighting bandits on the Sierras. Military flags and pennants where not allowed in New Spain.
Yeah sort of. The Dutch Netherlands Antilles (Saba, St Eustatius, Bonaire, Curaçao) was mostly replaced by the Dutch Caribbean Netherlands (Saba, St Eustatius, Bonaire) in 2010, while Curaçao became its own Dutch autonomous country, like Aruba and Sint Maarten. The Dutch Caribbean Netherlands was at that time brought inside the domestic administration of the European Netherlands, a status which was voted on by the citizens of these entities.
The white flag with the armillary sphere was the Prince of Brazil flag. The Prince of Brazil was the heir of the Portuguese crown, like the Prince of Wales in the UK
Referring to Portugal/brasil, If I recall correctly the white flag with the armilar sphere shown at 7:27 was the flag reserved for the ships of the Southern Route, traveling from and to Brasil. After the court relocated to Brasil to escape Napoleon, and the colony was upgraded to a kingdom, the government look around to see what they could put in the flag of the now United Kingdom of Portugal and Brasil to represent the new member, and that was the only thing they found, so the sphere was added to the flag, in use between 1816-1822, under the Portuguese coat of arms, over a white field. When Brasil seceded from the union, they kept the sphere in their imperial flag, as shown in the video, and kept it until the republic took it out in 1889. Ironicaly, Portugal put it back on their flag, when they became a republic, in 1910.
1:54 The British Honduras flag had two Union Jacks in one. Bruh. Swedenball is crying, I feel bad for their short lived New Sweden colony which was conquered by *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
With British at least I don't think those flags were an effort to represent people in any way. It was just a requirement to mark merchant ships from those territories like registration codes for aircraft now. The navies and customs services of the world needed to know who they were dealing with, whether they were allowed to arrest or search particular vessels.
The red fruits on the blason for Nueva Granada are pomegranates in Spanish called granadas. They are not however native to Nueva Granada or even Granada they are from Ethiopia and Yemen.
@General Knowledge 9:51 - The Monogram (C I M D) stands for "Comes Iohannes Mauritius Dominus", the Latin for Governor Count John Maurice (Dutch: Johan Mautris) of Nassau-Siegren who was the Governor of Dutch Brazil from 23 January 1637 - 30 September 1643.
Right before the independence, Brazil became part of Portugal, so they had a flag for that. And the Imperial Independence flag was inspired by the Portugal's monarchy symbols, since the Emperor was Portuguese himself.
Wikipedia states it as a matter of debate, though the widespread use of the term "Union Jack" seems to place it as the name for the flag whether or not it's being flown on one of HMS.
The Green Irish ensign is interesting. It's included in various 18th & 19th century flag books but nobody ever seems to have found a surviving one or seen it actually being used.
The British ceylon flag was really cool with a elephant and a stupa ( buddist structure).and the Portuguese ceylon flag with coconut trees and elephant as ceylon used to be a Portuguese colony before
I love all your videos: Add some inof about New Holand flah (Dutch period in Brazil): Dutch Brazil, beside, representation of this flag, as taken from the book Flags and Brasões do Brasil, by Clóvis Ribeiro, there is a discussion about the letters of the anagram referring to the CIMD as being Companhia das Indias Merdionais, in portugues as it was mistakenly mentioned, since this is not the correct name of the Company, and the understanding that the initials IMNCVD refers to “Iohan Maurits van Nassau Catzelnbogen Vianden en Dietz” is more correct according to information from the Dutch publication “ Vexilla Nostra ”of March 1973.
By the way, the two flags shown at 1:34 were, on the left, the flag of the Union of South Africa (from 1912-28), and, on the right, the flag of British Honduras (from 1870-1919) (it was never officially called Belize under that flag). The flag of "some Middle Eastern Regions" at 12:33 is the flag of (the one, single, region of) the French Mandate of Syria. The Spanish flag isn't a bicolor, lol. That would be two stripes of two different colors. Small difference, but I would think the mind behind Fun With Flags would know that. The symbol representing Cyrenaica on the Coat of Arms of Italian Libya is indeed a plant, specifically a silphium cut. And fun fact, "Rapa" on the flag of French Polynesia refers to the island of Rapa (Iti), which is sometimes used colloquially as the name of the whole collectivity.
The thing with Spain is that their territories were not considered by them as "colonies" but were legally recognized and integrated in the same way an mainland province considered part of Spain, it just had different goverments to make it easier to reign, like with the main viceroyalties, followed by capitancies, audiences, provinces. That didn't stopped a law that only let peninsular Spaniards be in charge of everything though, you were not able to have high ranking political jobs if you were born overseas, even if both of your parents were of Spanish or (in some cases) european descent.
A short lived Dutch Brasil, the Portuguese regained control of those áreas but lost some parts in Índia. That's why nowadays Portuguese is the oficial language of Brasil and the 6th most widely spoken in the world....
I really needed to laugh at you pronunciation of: de verenigde Oost-Indische compagnie. You did your best tough I understand that it's hard for non Dutch speakers to pronounce these words properly.
Puerto Rico and Cuba actually did have their own official colonial flags that were unique to them but I think they were the only ones and it was really late
Takes balls to make a video about colonial empires at this day and age. Never stop teaching history. Lets never forget lest we repeat it. Great work as always. Keep going!
Staggering amount of research put into these videos - shows a huge amount of dedication. These videos never fail to impress. A couple of little things - The bird at (11:05) is a bird of paradise, while the tiger at (08:15) is more likely to be a lion.
About the Colonial Brazil, there was even another one A blue background with that round thingy in the middle. It was the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algavares Before that, the white background with the round thingy and red Portuguese cross were the government official flag (but the Portuguese didn't really recognized, specially because they didn't really cared about us)
The Spanish Empire (at least in the Americas) was divided into Viceroyalties, and some had Captaincies General that were subordinate to them (e.g. Viceroyalty of Peru with the Captaincy General of Chile). Pretty much every subdivision (Viceroyalty, Captaincy General, even most cities) had their own coat of arms, it’s definitely not restricted to the ones shown.
For the British Empire, I believe that Canada (I believe it was granted a special category in the British Empire) and the Raj used Red as they had special administration for themselves and Blue was used for any Colonial Protectorate such as Southern Rhodesia, Nysaaland, British West Africa etc, however in 1942 (Fact check I forgot the year lol) Australia ratified the statue of Westminster and became a true Self Governing dominion such as Canada but couldn't be asked to change their flag and kept their famous Blue Ensign with the stars much like New Zealand.
Fun fact: 14:52 New Grenada's Viceroyalty coat of arms is the current coat of arms of my hometown (Bogotá, Colombia's capital and also capital of the former viceroyalty)
Really love your videos man, very informative. May I just suggest you add a little bit of background music? Nothing crazy, just something light and low to keep up engagement and attention. Like adding a bit of tomato sauce to spaghetti, you know? Keep up the good work, this channel has awesome content.
There’s about 7 ways to say a double L in Spanish and in Spain it’s definitely not just a straight up Y. It’s either “yj” or “ly” I believe based on region.
3:45 - There was also Light Blue Ensigns on top of Blue, Red, White & Green. (Green & Light Blue weren't included in the laws, they may have even been illegal!)
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Since this video was kind of longer, here are some time-stamps for each country if you want to skip any of them:
United Kingdom (1:15), Portugal (5:35), Belgium (7:35), Netherlands (8:35), Germany (10:15), France (11:35), Spain (13:35), Italy (16:05)
Czech republic 🇨🇿 ?
@@vasekcz -- So what was the Czech colonial empire?
@@markmh835 Czech Republic had no colonies and it was landlocked.
Proud Czech
I am from Brazil and this White colonial flag is correct and also called "the flag of the principality of Brazil" and in fact it influenced the flag of the empire of Brazil and the flag of the Kingdom of Brazil (Part of the United Kingdom of Portugal Brazil and algarves formed during the Napoleonic Wars) that practically the same flag that was used in Colonial Brazil but with the Blue Fund.
I add that the imperial flag was a fusion of Portuguese symbols and brasses of noble families that formed the empire.
I hope I helped, great video by the way.
The Union Jack is basically a fancy watermark for countries
Darjeeling xD
True
@@alejobuc50 "Coincidence? I think not"
The flag you described as the earlier version of the British East India company, with the Union Jack in the upper left, and 13 red and white stripes in the rest of the flag, was also the colonial flag of the 13 colonies that later became the United States. All the independence movement did was to replace the Union Jack with a field of stars!
@@allanrichardson1468 Plot twist: Cantons are just watermarks and major countries are actually companies
The Spanish empire did not have colonial flags because the overseas possessions were not considered colonies but regions of Spain with the inhabitants having exactly the same rights as the people in the metropolis. That was quite unique for the time
.... You know... That's not correct at all, lo vice-reino de la prata became independent and after dismantled because the spannish didn't gave them attention, they we're busy having parties etc... Just like the French....
@@tiagorodrigues179 they were busy fighting napoleon on mainland spain, not partying hahahah
@@tiagorodrigues179 they were occupied fighting against Napoleon but the Main reason why american spanish territories wanted their independence was becouse the landlords and the bit producers were anoyed becouse bourbons opened th market so everyone un the spanish empire could commerce . The Main supporters of the independence where criollos not the normal people
@@yeahsure1951 I mean before the napoleonic wars...
@@edudavila8475Yeah it's more that. If I'm not wrong the Spanish colonies we're exploration colonies... Spain extracted the resources and send them to... Spain... And didn't invest on the colonies territory.
The reason for Spain only using the national flag is becasue in the majority of the Spanish empire, the overseas territories werent colonies, they were part of the empire, wich meant they had the same laws as the main land.
Did the people overseas participated in any type of elections? Did they pay taxes?
C V kings are not elected.
Pero igual todos los gobernantes eran peninsulares, ni siquiera los criollos podían tener algún cargo administrativo, los españoles dicen que no fuimos colonias, pero ese era el trato que le daban a nuestras tierras
@@johanmedina3623 no en el caso de Rio De La Plata
@@cv4809 Spain didn't even have elections back then at all. And taxes were probably paid through economic exploitation.
Spain considered his "Colonies" as overseas territories, like a weird extension of Spain itself but across the Atlantic, thats why the cultural impact was so deep among other things, The way they were ruled and the laws were virtually the same in both sides of the Atlantic for everyone (but yeah important jobs were mostly for Peninsulares, but still plenty of Criollos had a lot of power too , same as the nobility and landlords of Spain itself)
Portugal during the dictatorship time did the same
Didn't France have a similar thing going on. Though maybe not as equal towards the colonial subjects, but citizens of France I think.
No llegaban a puestos tan altos como los peninsulares no por ser colonias o ser racistas sino que el rey prefería hacerlo con los que conocía los de España no va a dar un cargo importante a uno que está a miles de kilómetros sin conocerle de nada
Si basically
Spaniards and their descendants were treated the same under the laws …
But the majority of mestizo, mulattoes natives and African slaves were treated as less than humans
@@19ars92 Claro pero eso era ilegal no como en otros imperios que su se podían hacer
Everyone: let's get creative
Britain: put our flag at the corner and I don't care the rest
J. Kerim S no not really
they still look cool af tho
@@fzzy5739 They'd look far cooler with flags that actually represent the people of these countries.
Ian Macfarlane i’m from indonesia and i’d say nah not really. colonial flags look cool af
@@fzzy5739 I've no idea what being from Indonesia has to do with it - is your opinion more valid because you come from a previously colonised country?
If that's your argument fair enough, but the population of Indonesia is over 273 million and I doubt that the majority of Indonesians agree with you.
I also doubt that your ancestors would agree with you.
You should be celebrating the fact that Indonesia has been an independent country for 75 years.
If your country is able to have independence celebrations this year, (I don't know the current COVID-19 situation in Indonesia) are you going to sit at home dreaming of being recolonised by any one of almost half a dozen countries?
I learn more here than school
Same
Yes
Here in Brazil the school is polarized and isn't good, so, here is better.
Same bro
Same
Fun fact: Austria-Hungary, (edit) *also Germany, France, UK, USA, Japan, Russia, Belgium and Italy* had colonies (concessions) in the city of Tianjin
If you want to be even more accurate you should say that it was a concession
Yes
Am not sure is it fact but most certainly it’s not fun
Don't forget Franz Joseph Land!
17 AC it was just discovered by them, not colonised
Rock: is unclaimed
Britain: hippity hoppity, that rock is my property
Portugal now: Hippity hoppity, that water is now my property
The INDIAN REPUBLIC : you found in our land so that's OUR Rock
@@baconator2427 figi and Britann : NO ITS OUR WATER
The Spanish Empire didn't had a flag for its overseas territories on America because it didn't considered them different to their European holdings and the notion of Nation-State was far from coming in the XV century, where it kick-started. All of Hispano-America and the Phillipines belonged to the Crown of Castille-Leon hence, when Charles III decided to use the current pattern of Gules and Gold (Red and Yellow), the dependencies followed suit. The blazons you have depicted were granted not to colonies, but to specific cities (Guatemala and Bogotá [then more formally called "Santa Fé"]. All of the now national capital cities of what became American republics have one.I think the one for P.R. was for the governor once the notion of Nation-State of the XIX was formed.
Still, good video :)
Actually Florida once had its own flag in 1721 until 1732 it’s flag was like the Flag of Florida but it had a Shield the shield had a portrait of the King at the time and it had the X from Spain then having the Shield of Du la Plata
It's so good to have finally found a world class channel with content about Brazil and Portugal. Você é um orgulho para nós, irmão lusitano!
Obrigado!
@papa joe stalin of Stalinist stanistan could you not be so unfunny geez. When was that funny? 2014?
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0:02: Cambodia: yep im not here at all.
there are two countries in new zealand and indonesia
That's wrong, every good EU4 player knows a colonial flag is just the same flag as the overlord but the right side is a plain colour that depends on the location. Get your facts right.
Every good Victoria 2 player knows that colonies DO NOT get independence.
HOI4 Third Reich be like:
Every CK player knows flags should be banners and family crests. These idea's of nation states borders to heresy and insubordination. As if peasants have anything to say in politics.
Russia: They're not colonies if they're directly connected to the glorious motherland!
Russia kill türk country s but we kill full russian people moskov is türkey
@@xx-kn6ih hey psst
armenian genocide
Serpil candan hey
Someone made a Kabab out of a cat.
Serpil candan Portugal and America got colony and kill the, haha 5 fart get noob fat noob italy Spain
A german saying mother land what a shame to the vaterland
Fun fact: the Union Jack is still used on several Canadian province flags to this day; Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia
Fun fact: EVERYBODY KNOWS IT
Fun fact: Why are we doing this?
Fun Fact: Quebec doesn't, but most people already know that
Yep and the entity flags of Hawaii, all the Australian states, and also several New Zealand possessions
You mistaked the italian royal coat of arms with the cross of Pisa, other than this great video!!
I thought that was the coat of arms of Sardinia Piedmont (the country that formed Italy)
yep!
@Marcus Tullius Cicero. I just read Robert Harris's book about you. You're a great guy and a fantastic lawyer!
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7:33 , I am from Brazil and this White colonial flag is correct and also called "the flag of the principality of Brazil" and in fact it influenced the flag of the empire of Brazil and the flag of the Kingdom of Brazil (Part of the United Kingdom of Portugal Brazil and algarves formed during the Napoleonic Wars) that practically the same flag that was used in Colonial Brazil but with the Blue Fund.
I add that the imperial flag was a fusion of Portuguese symbols and brasses of noble families that formed the empire.
I hope I helped, great video by the way.
Stickman French Sudan Flag was so dope.
Lol
This is a traditional design of the Dogon people.
Modern day Mali
3:52 There is also a country that uses a Union Jack in the upper left corner with a yellow background. It's Niue.
Fiji uses sky blue.
@@peterdavy6110 as Tuvalu does
@@peterdavy6110 I like Fiji's flag. It makes me forgive them for not doing anything when a bottled water company claims that the source their water from their, even though it's just tap water.
@@Lord_Of_Aether But... it is from Fiji??
It’s not a country it’s a possession of New Zealand, they also deface the Union Jack with local symbols which is unique
14:56 For New Granada the two "red fruits" are pomegranates, the symbol of "old" Granada.
The inventor of the flag of French Sudan must´ve been like: "Hon hon hon Jacques, c'est le meilleur drapeau."
yes lol, the thing is that it was almost the only french african flag to have the specifity on his flag, all the other colonies had the normal french flag
@@iamothemakhnovist20 I wonder why they added it tho, when they had no apparent interest in doing so...
Can someone translate me the french part? I didn't take French classes...
@@Germ_f google translate
is it "Jaques, this is the best flag"?
So Australia summed up.
Blue was used for government buildings, red for civil/public use. A few changes occurred until the passing of the 1953 Flags Act which stipulated the Blue flag would become the national flag and red would be for civilian maritime watercraft.
The White ensign is only used on Her Majesty's Australian Ships (HMAS) of the Royal Australian Navy. It is an offence to fly this flag as a civilian.
Hope this clarifies things for you. Great video!
I love it when he pronounce words with a Portuguese accent like: _LAOSHHH_ .
I love how you mangled the pronunciation of VOC (Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie) . You also read the name of Laos 🇱🇦 the Portugese way. Good work! Your videos are educational and fun to watch. 👍🏻 Keep up the good work.
I like how you didn’t just cover 1 colonial power like others would.
The Kingdom of Hawaii, though never ruled by the British, liked the UK so much that they put the Union Jack in the corner. And it’s in the state flag of Hawaii even today!
Hahaha yeah, 'liked so much'. More like it was imposed on them by force, the same way the later Americans stole the islands despite previously guaranteeing their independence
Delusional anglos 😂
@Adam Garratt Bruh, there was an original Hawaiian flag before the naive king 'adopted' the British colors. Quick Google search is all you need to do.
You should actually research the topic before saying something like that, then you won't look like a complete moron.
@@forthepotentates7526 You realize that you're just saying that just to try to make yourself not look like a complete idiot who says the British are insane.
@@forthepotentates7526 So why is it a crime for the Hawaiian flag to be placed above the USA flag?
@@jagdpanther1944 You're not supposed to put any state flag above the USA's. The USA flag flies above all state flags and at equal level to all other National flags.
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Good work! I have to mention, by the way, that Italy also had some sort of colony in Albania (actually a separate kingdom in a personal union) and Albania had its own flag in Italian (fascist) style
I'm still searching for the flag with 50 stars to identify the overlord of the US
Nice one
"Italy never had a tramendously large colonial empire"
Every roman must being spinning in their grave. 😂😂
Helo
He is talking about modern and not classical empires though. But I get your point. ROMA INVICTA!
@@aleksandersokal5279 It's just a joke
*Spinning on their
You known what, Italy had a larger colonial empire than germany so the video is wrong
In Spanish coats of arms, a bucket with snakes represents economic wealth. The bucket, which actually is a pot, represents the ability of the fief lord to feed and maintain his own army. Snakes are there just for aesthetic purposes.
Good video, greetings from Spain!
Spain didn't have flags for their territories (not colonies) because the tradition was that the king would grant a coat of arms to the most important cities. In addition, the flags of the municipalities consisted of the cross of burgundy with the coat of arms of the capital of the viceroyalty or captaincy at the four ends of the cross. In this way, the flag of New Spain was the cross with the CoA of Mexico City, New Granada was a cross with the CoA of Bogotá (the same one shown in the video), Peru was the cross with the CoA of the Ciudad de los Reyes (City of the Kings, actually Lima), the same with the captaincy of Guatemala. The viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata was an exception, since Buenos Aires never had a coat of arms given by the king.
But the Coat of Arms of Buenos Aires has a eagle with the Cross of Calatrava
@@colacao6065 Sí pero no fue otorgado por un rey.
I´m argentinian and i love when you speak in spanish.
nice vid, keep up the good work my friend
Portugal, Spain, And Britain had the most outreaching results
More colonies doesn't automatically mean you are more successful, the dutch had the smallest empire yet they had a voc merchant fleet that was bigger then all the European powers. COMBINED. 50%of trade that came to europe came in on dutch ships wich made it the Netherlands the most wealthy country in the 17th century
@@drpepper3838 wheres the dutch culture around the world? Yeah....A lot of people speak english, spanish and portuguese but not dutch
@@br3menPT it wasn't even our goal to spread our beliefs, we didn't care about ideology. We just wanted to trade and make money, and we were the best at it, inventing the stockmarket wich gave us a huge advantage and inventing the wind powered sawmill, this way we could build ships 4x faster than anyone else and for half the cost. This eventually led to us having a merchant fleet larger than all the other European sea powers combined. We also invented to fluyt wich is still the best dedicated cargo ship of the age of sail. We were more traders and entrepreneurs, why would you colonize something that costs a lot of money time and manpower when you can setup a trading post and let some local rulers fight each other while you exploit their resources.
@@br3menPT for this reason alone we were granted special permission to trade with Japan during it 200 years of Isolation, the portuguese were kicked out because they smuggled in bibles and priests.
@@drpepper3838 I understand your point of view....but Portugal was the first one, they took a doctrine, a country, a religion, a language, a state, and usages to their oversea territoires and they treated the territoires as part of Portugal..the dutch were very surprised with that atitude in 17th century
0:01 "Every country have their own flag"
*Northern Ireland:* Hold my beer
It’s not a country but it’s has a flag(inside the uk)
There is a mistake.
Spanish Viceroyalty's had their own flag. It was the Burgundian Cross on a white field, at the top of the four corners were the Coat of Arms of each region:
New Spain's for example had the ancient Mexico City's emblem, the same case on New Granada Viceroyalty, Rio de la Plata, Capitania de Guatemala, etc.
Random Weeb are you from Spain because In Gran Colombia they had The same flags and I don’t really know anything about government unless your talking about Viceroy Gunray and I’m part Spanish but from Venezuela which was a Spanish Colony
Random Weeb and idk
@@howardthealien2606 The great Colombia never existed in reality, it only exists on paper for 10 years. What did exist and function for 300 years was the viceroyalty of New Granada. I'm Colombian.
At that time each power used certain flags and heraldry, it didn't have something like "a single official flag", the flag of the Spanish empire was the Burgundy Cross, the most common was the red one with a white background, but sometimes it was used with a yellow background, or white with a red background... The Tercios used flags with different geometric shapes to distinguish one Tercio from another... And navally, the ships used to carry a flag of the crown to which they belonged and the flag of the empire itself, sometimes they wore the Burgundy Cross with stripes
Dude, I'm Mexican. I know what I'm talking about.
New Spain's flag was the Burgundian Cross on a white field, at the top of the four corners was the Mexico's City emblem (two rampant lions guarding a castle on the water, representing ancient Tenochtitlan).
It wasn't yellow because no Tercio unit was assembled or sent to Mexico ever, in fact there was only volunteer militia guarding ports (like Campeche, Veracruz or Acapulco) or fighting bandits on the Sierras. Military flags and pennants where not allowed in New Spain.
The dutch are building Kaapstad( kaap de goude hoop) in south Afrika
And new york( nieuw amsterdam) in america
Nobody:
Western Europe: "But do you have a flag?"
The Netherlands Antilles don’t exist anymore, they are now countries in the Kingdom of the Netherlands or special municipalities of the Netherlands
Yeah sort of. The Dutch Netherlands Antilles (Saba, St Eustatius, Bonaire, Curaçao) was mostly replaced by the Dutch Caribbean Netherlands (Saba, St Eustatius, Bonaire) in 2010, while Curaçao became its own Dutch autonomous country, like Aruba and Sint Maarten. The Dutch Caribbean Netherlands was at that time brought inside the domestic administration of the European Netherlands, a status which was voted on by the citizens of these entities.
The white flag with the armillary sphere was the Prince of Brazil flag. The Prince of Brazil was the heir of the Portuguese crown, like the Prince of Wales in the UK
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Referring to Portugal/brasil, If I recall correctly the white flag with the armilar sphere shown at 7:27 was the flag reserved for the ships of the Southern Route, traveling from and to Brasil. After the court relocated to Brasil to escape Napoleon, and the colony was upgraded to a kingdom, the government look around to see what they could put in the flag of the now United Kingdom of Portugal and Brasil to represent the new member, and that was the only thing they found, so the sphere was added to the flag, in use between 1816-1822, under the Portuguese coat of arms, over a white field.
When Brasil seceded from the union, they kept the sphere in their imperial flag, as shown in the video, and kept it until the republic took it out in 1889. Ironicaly, Portugal put it back on their flag, when they became a republic, in 1910.
12:58 The people from upper Volta is so funny as i see by putting that flag in their territory that is technically French.
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1:54 The British Honduras flag had two Union Jacks in one. Bruh. Swedenball is crying, I feel bad for their short lived New Sweden colony which was conquered by *G E K O L O N I S E E R D*
I always thought that "gekoloniseerd" meant "get colonised", and not just "colonised" lmao.
Belize
@@tookie5391 yes
With British at least I don't think those flags were an effort to represent people in any way. It was just a requirement to mark merchant ships from those territories like registration codes for aircraft now. The navies and customs services of the world needed to know who they were dealing with, whether they were allowed to arrest or search particular vessels.
The red fruits on the blason for Nueva Granada are pomegranates in Spanish called granadas. They are not however native to Nueva Granada or even Granada they are from Ethiopia and Yemen.
@General Knowledge
9:51 - The Monogram (C I M D) stands for "Comes Iohannes Mauritius Dominus", the Latin for Governor Count John Maurice (Dutch: Johan Mautris) of Nassau-Siegren who was the Governor of Dutch Brazil from 23 January 1637 - 30 September 1643.
British with "union jack"🇦🇨🇦🇮🇦🇺🇫🇯🇨🇰🇩🇬🇫🇰🇬🇸🇭🇲🇰🇾🇲🇾🇳🇿🇹🇨🇹🇦🇹🇫🇺🇸🇻🇬
French with """union jaques""" 🇹🇫 🇼🇫
Right before the independence, Brazil became part of Portugal, so they had a flag for that. And the Imperial Independence flag was inspired by the Portugal's monarchy symbols, since the Emperor was Portuguese himself.
The union jack is ONLY called a union jack when is is flying on HM ships.
Wikipedia states it as a matter of debate, though the widespread use of the term "Union Jack" seems to place it as the name for the flag whether or not it's being flown on one of HMS.
the royal navy has ships sunk by the seven seas, most likely with the union jack placed on them.
Technically yes but nobody used it this way, meaning nobody that’s not a stickler actually calls it the “union flag” on land
What else are you gonna call it?
The Green Irish ensign is interesting. It's included in various 18th & 19th century flag books but nobody ever seems to have found a surviving one or seen it actually being used.
The British ceylon flag was really cool with a elephant and a stupa ( buddist structure).and the Portuguese ceylon flag with coconut trees and elephant as ceylon used to be a Portuguese colony before
Superbe vidéo !!
I love all your videos:
Add some inof about New Holand flah (Dutch period in Brazil):
Dutch Brazil, beside, representation of this flag, as taken from the book Flags and Brasões do Brasil, by Clóvis Ribeiro, there is a discussion about the letters of the anagram referring to the CIMD as being Companhia das Indias Merdionais, in portugues as it was mistakenly mentioned, since this is not the correct name of the Company, and the understanding that the initials IMNCVD refers to “Iohan Maurits van Nassau Catzelnbogen Vianden en Dietz” is more correct according to information from the Dutch publication “ Vexilla Nostra ”of March 1973.
I enjoyed this video a lot.
Very well done!
By the way, the two flags shown at 1:34 were, on the left, the flag of the Union of South Africa (from 1912-28), and, on the right, the flag of British Honduras (from 1870-1919) (it was never officially called Belize under that flag).
The flag of "some Middle Eastern Regions" at 12:33 is the flag of (the one, single, region of) the French Mandate of Syria.
The Spanish flag isn't a bicolor, lol. That would be two stripes of two different colors. Small difference, but I would think the mind behind Fun With Flags would know that.
The symbol representing Cyrenaica on the Coat of Arms of Italian Libya is indeed a plant, specifically a silphium cut.
And fun fact, "Rapa" on the flag of French Polynesia refers to the island of Rapa (Iti), which is sometimes used colloquially as the name of the whole collectivity.
The thing with Spain is that their territories were not considered by them as "colonies" but were legally recognized and integrated in the same way an mainland province considered part of Spain, it just had different goverments to make it easier to reign, like with the main viceroyalties, followed by capitancies, audiences, provinces.
That didn't stopped a law that only let peninsular Spaniards be in charge of everything though, you were not able to have high ranking political jobs if you were born overseas, even if both of your parents were of Spanish or (in some cases) european descent.
The Philippines was colonized by Spain and Spain gave these islands to the United States, I'm not joking
Yeah
Great video! Keep up the good work!
9:25 Dutch speakers be cringin'
Wouw, I didn't know about Dutch Brazil. Very interesting video!
A short lived Dutch Brasil, the Portuguese regained control of those áreas but lost some parts in Índia. That's why nowadays Portuguese is the oficial language of Brasil and the 6th most widely spoken in the world....
The Italians flags are obviously the most beautifuls
Excellent & Informative instructivel video. Highly recommended!
I really needed to laugh at you pronunciation of: de verenigde Oost-Indische compagnie. You did your best tough I understand that it's hard for non Dutch speakers to pronounce these words properly.
that was funny, but i don't like when he uses portuguese pronunciation for some random toponims while keeping up with excellent english otherwise
0:55
Therapist: Countryballs with eyebrows isn’t real, he can’t hurt you
Countryballs with eyebrows:
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Excellent work👍👍👍
What about Niue then? They have a yellow field with the union jack up left
your dutch is the most funny atement to speak dutch i have ever seen
I didn’t know the Falklands once had a flag that didn’t have sheep on it
Hello general supreme superior leader kim jong un
According to a newspaper headline just before the 1982 war, the British left waffles on the Falklands! Wasn’t that generous of them?
Same reason why Choson /North part of / has no fat imbecile on their flag too .
Allan Richardson Rule Britainia 🇬🇧
Isla Malvinas 🇦🇷
The Portuguese colonial shield for Guinea was beautiful 7:03
@@fgsaramago Indeed, it looks stunning, greco-african, beautiful.
0:10
I'm just being picky but why is Crete apart of Turkey?
I feel like that'll annoy a lot of people
Greeks especially
@@IVaV1 lmao yep
Yeah the map template I used wasn't the best lol
@@General.Knowledge ah lol, I doubt anyone would notice
What I noticed was that Eastern Thrace is colored purple so...
a point for the dutch flags: pre-napoleon Dutch flags had a lighter tint of blue. The red used to be orange as well at a certain point in time.
Great Video as Always ...
Can You Make a Video About Not Really Known Regions That Wants to Be a Independent Countries ?
I admire your attempt on pronouncing the dutch words xd, handelsposten came close though, good job
Puerto Rico and Cuba actually did have their own official colonial flags that were unique to them but I think they were the only ones and it was really late
The plant on cyrenaica is some ancient depiction of silphium, a now extinct spice.
Takes balls to make a video about colonial empires at this day and age. Never stop teaching history. Lets never forget lest we repeat it. Great work as always. Keep going!
Only if you spend time around naive people. Everything that has happened in history happens today, borders, empires, spheres of influence, etc.
Staggering amount of research put into these videos - shows a huge amount of dedication.
These videos never fail to impress.
A couple of little things -
The bird at (11:05) is a bird of paradise, while the tiger at (08:15) is more likely to be a lion.
És português, caramba! Esses plurais não mentem... Parabéns vídeo e pelo canal.
yesss, i love to see these flags
Are you Angolan, Portuguese or Brazilian?
Portuguese
@@General.Knowledge 👁 nice man
@@General.Knowledge eae, Mano kkkkk
@@XZ1. seu racista você não mencionou Moçambique, Cabo Verde, timor leste e Macau vou chamar a polícia fodase kkkkkkkkkk
@@davihomem7342 estou em cana ✊✊😔😔
About the Colonial Brazil, there was even another one
A blue background with that round thingy in the middle. It was the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and Algavares
Before that, the white background with the round thingy and red Portuguese cross were the government official flag (but the Portuguese didn't really recognized, specially because they didn't really cared about us)
The Spanish Empire (at least in the Americas) was divided into Viceroyalties, and some had Captaincies General that were subordinate to them (e.g. Viceroyalty of Peru with the Captaincy General of Chile). Pretty much every subdivision (Viceroyalty, Captaincy General, even most cities) had their own coat of arms, it’s definitely not restricted to the ones shown.
For the British Empire, I believe that Canada (I believe it was granted a special category in the British Empire) and the Raj used Red as they had special administration for themselves and Blue was used for any Colonial Protectorate such as Southern Rhodesia, Nysaaland, British West Africa etc, however in 1942 (Fact check I forgot the year lol) Australia ratified the statue of Westminster and became a true Self Governing dominion such as Canada but couldn't be asked to change their flag and kept their famous Blue Ensign with the stars much like New Zealand.
Your old country is türkish country
14:43 is that knight on horseback depicted driving away a Moorish army? (Santiago Matamoros?)
Fun fact: 14:52 New Grenada's Viceroyalty coat of arms is the current coat of arms of my hometown (Bogotá, Colombia's capital and also capital of the former viceroyalty)
Normie: The Belgium-Netherlands borders are one of the stragest things on earth.
Me: Well, Ceuta's banner...
Yep... A Spanish territory with claims from Morocco which it's flag has the Portuguese coat of arms....
*strange*
Really love your videos man, very informative. May I just suggest you add a little bit of background music? Nothing crazy, just something light and low to keep up engagement and attention. Like adding a bit of tomato sauce to spaghetti, you know?
Keep up the good work, this channel has awesome content.
Melilla is pronounce "Me-li-Ya" as in Young for example.
Give Ceuta back to Portugal
@@NibanoTransmontano Hahaha, funny.
There’s about 7 ways to say a double L in Spanish and in Spain it’s definitely not just a straight up Y. It’s either “yj” or “ly” I believe based on region.
The unused German Cameroon flag with the elephant goes insanely hard
UK how many flags do you have?
UK: Yes
Lmao the Brits wild. Each Colony there is a flag for it 😂😂 Man the British empire is great lol
4:58 This flag has "Graphics design is my passion" energy hahaha
Are u portuguese, cause u say nau and feitorias very well.
Yes. He is portuguese!
@@Hramable thank u!
Ele português!
Southern Rhodesia had that sky blue flag before getting their UDI one.
Portugal 🇵🇹💕💕💕💕💕
Portugal only colonial baby
3:45 - There was also Light Blue Ensigns on top of Blue, Red, White & Green.
(Green & Light Blue weren't included in the laws, they may have even been illegal!)
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Northern Ireland, has, while technically being a country, not had an official flag since 47 years🌚
I think he meant INDEPENDENT countries
@@fgsaramago que
The monogram on the Dutch Brazil flag is the monogram of Maurice of Nassau, then governor.
These flags represent suffering, anguish and despair.
It represent the winners over the loosers 😎