North Carolina flag

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Normal or de jure version of a flag? North Carolina flag
Historic flag? Flag from 1861

The current flag of the US state of North Carolina dates from 1885.

description

The rectangular flag is divided into three fields of different colors. A dark blue field takes up about a third on the left side, the remaining area is divided across the middle. There is a red box at the top and a white box below it.

In the center of the dark blue field there is a white, five-pointed star. To the left and right of it are the gold-colored letters N and C. In semi-arcs above and below, two dates are written in dark blue on gold bands, on the one hand “May 20th 1775” and the other “April 12th 1776”.

history

The original flag was created at the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861. The current form, a variant of the Confederate war flag , dates from 1885 and bears the initials of the state. The red field of the old flag has been replaced with blue in memory of the Bonnie Blue Flag , which was used as a symbol of secession during the war.

It bears the dates of the so-called Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence (May 20, 1775) and the Halifax Resolves (April 12, 1776), both of which took place in North Carolina and were at the beginning of the American independence movement.

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