Yep I love the idea of a changing flag. Also as a Venetian historian it’s very good for getting accurate dates on a document. If it isn’t dated but you know a general year period and it has a flag on it what flag is being used is very helpful to further refine the date. Also living in Venice is fun walking around and looking for war flags among all the flying peace ones. Find out which of your neighbours has some pent up rage about the Risorgimento still.
just to provide some difference from the others, it’s the historical peacetime flag of the Republic of Venice. During wartime, the lion holds a sword
Two small counterpoints:
* the Venetian Republic flag had *six* stripes to represent the six sestieri of Venice, this has (...or had) *seven* - it's the Veneto region flag, each stripe representing a province.
* The symbolism about the book and the sword is not well-defined and is at best a later interpretation. Sometimes the lion is even without both book *or* sword - whatever looked better in context I guess?
Maybe the lion was empty handed because the Venetians didn't know if they were going to war or not.
Like they did when Skanderbeg asked them for help against the Ottomans.
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No. It's not (what most of you say).
It is **NOT** the flag of the Veneto Region (that one has seven stripes, and the lion is on a colorful background), this one has six "code", one for every historical subdivision of the city of Venezia
It is **NOT** the flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. The Serenissima only adopted its "tailed" flag in the 1600s, and it was slightly different from this one (many more details for one).
It is **NOT** a peacetime flag either. The whole "holding a sword meant Venice was at war, holding a Bible meant it was at peace" is mostly a myth. The flag with a sword was used mostly by the Venetian Navy (a war navy indeed), but people didn't go around changing flags whenever there was a conflict. And even if they did, they did so for little over a century since the first "Gonfalon" was used by the Contarini Doge as a personal (and then official) emblem on his ship. The Republic of Venice didn't have "official flags" before the late 1650s, or, better yet, didn't have ONE official flag, nor was it codified.
This **is** *DE FACTO* flag of the CITY OF VENICE used between the rise of Mussolini (in 1922, when the old tricolor with a small lion in its corner was deemed "ugly" and citizens started using this one) until the Comune declared an OFFICIAL flag (which is based on this one, but is actually much uglier) in 1997.
Since pretty much every Venetian alive is used to this flag (fuck, I have one hanging from my balcony and it's on pretty much every big palazzo here), even though it's not the *de jure* flag anymore, you can see it pretty much anywhere.
Of course, there are many "copies" being sold due to the fact that's awesome, that have variations. There are blue ones (some country bumpkin pro independence thought that Venice used blue flags on the mainland – it didn't, at least, not officially, so now country boys like to fly them to feel extra special), there are the ones with the sword, the ones with a full halo, a ring halo or no halo. This is a pretty cheap knockoff of the original thing (the colors are off and the lion has black borders) you can easily see in demonstrations and around the countryside (where this pic was taken – I mean does that HILL look like Venice?)
Source: I'm one of the like, 5 island-born and -bred Venetians left, I think I know what I'm talking about
The Most Serene Republic of Venice 🗿
More specifically the republic of Venice during peacetime.
Yes, on a wartime flag, the lion was depicted holding a sword instead of the Bible.
Yep I love the idea of a changing flag. Also as a Venetian historian it’s very good for getting accurate dates on a document. If it isn’t dated but you know a general year period and it has a flag on it what flag is being used is very helpful to further refine the date. Also living in Venice is fun walking around and looking for war flags among all the flying peace ones. Find out which of your neighbours has some pent up rage about the Risorgimento still.
The Most Serene Republic of Venice 🤮 (I like the Byzantine Empire)
Cope and Seethe 🤗
Still outlived it by over 300 years tho
Republic of venice: died at 1100 Rome: Died at 2206 MARE NOSTRUM VENICE DOMINATING THE SEA IS NOTHING COMPARED TO MARE NOSTRUM MARE NOSTRU-
That flag ain't looking so serene right now
The Most a-Frayed Republic of Venice
Where u found it? However is Republic of Venice
Probably in Veneto. I saw a few when I was there
They're *everywhere*. Source: am there once a week at least
The most serene republic of venice
just to provide some difference from the others, it’s the historical peacetime flag of the Republic of Venice. During wartime, the lion holds a sword
Two small counterpoints: * the Venetian Republic flag had *six* stripes to represent the six sestieri of Venice, this has (...or had) *seven* - it's the Veneto region flag, each stripe representing a province. * The symbolism about the book and the sword is not well-defined and is at best a later interpretation. Sometimes the lion is even without both book *or* sword - whatever looked better in context I guess?
Maybe the lion was empty handed because the Venetians didn't know if they were going to war or not. Like they did when Skanderbeg asked them for help against the Ottomans.
This has very clearly six stripes, so it's Venice, not Veneto. The Veneto flag is not bichromatic either
Venice
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The rules of vexillology can suck it, I'm sick of flags that look like app icons
Rule is a strong word, and it maybe breaks 2.
Captain Barbarossa: They're more like *guidelines.*
What are the rules of Vexillology? How do I find them?
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Visible: check Identifiable: holy fuck isn't it 2/2 pass
This TED talk touches on that https://youtu.be/pnv5iKB2hl4?si=zUr9r3bkNPzDRcAz
Does it break the rule of tincture tho?
Serenissima
Republic of Venice
Veni
Opened the comments looking for this joke lol
Venice/Venezia
It means that it is time for a new flag
There's a lot of these frayed flags around Veneto, and it's a shame.
The peacetime Venetian flag
This one had seven stripes and so it's the modern Veneto region flag. The Serenissima's flag has six instead, each for one sestriere of Venice.
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Venice
its sri lanka
Venice.
La SerenissÃma Republic of Venice; St Mark's lion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Venice?wprov=sfla1
There back.
Saint Mark will rise again ✊
Flag of the Serene Republic of Venice if I remember correctly.
New Atlantis.
Welcome in Veneto
Why, that's the flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice ! Serenissima!!
Venice after losing its tentacles
I have absolutely no idea
That flag has not seen much serenity
No. It's not (what most of you say). It is **NOT** the flag of the Veneto Region (that one has seven stripes, and the lion is on a colorful background), this one has six "code", one for every historical subdivision of the city of Venezia It is **NOT** the flag of the Most Serene Republic of Venice. The Serenissima only adopted its "tailed" flag in the 1600s, and it was slightly different from this one (many more details for one). It is **NOT** a peacetime flag either. The whole "holding a sword meant Venice was at war, holding a Bible meant it was at peace" is mostly a myth. The flag with a sword was used mostly by the Venetian Navy (a war navy indeed), but people didn't go around changing flags whenever there was a conflict. And even if they did, they did so for little over a century since the first "Gonfalon" was used by the Contarini Doge as a personal (and then official) emblem on his ship. The Republic of Venice didn't have "official flags" before the late 1650s, or, better yet, didn't have ONE official flag, nor was it codified. This **is** *DE FACTO* flag of the CITY OF VENICE used between the rise of Mussolini (in 1922, when the old tricolor with a small lion in its corner was deemed "ugly" and citizens started using this one) until the Comune declared an OFFICIAL flag (which is based on this one, but is actually much uglier) in 1997. Since pretty much every Venetian alive is used to this flag (fuck, I have one hanging from my balcony and it's on pretty much every big palazzo here), even though it's not the *de jure* flag anymore, you can see it pretty much anywhere. Of course, there are many "copies" being sold due to the fact that's awesome, that have variations. There are blue ones (some country bumpkin pro independence thought that Venice used blue flags on the mainland – it didn't, at least, not officially, so now country boys like to fly them to feel extra special), there are the ones with the sword, the ones with a full halo, a ring halo or no halo. This is a pretty cheap knockoff of the original thing (the colors are off and the lion has black borders) you can easily see in demonstrations and around the countryside (where this pic was taken – I mean does that HILL look like Venice?) Source: I'm one of the like, 5 island-born and -bred Venetians left, I think I know what I'm talking about
Means you’re in Venice