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June 1849 and days of remembrance for military battles. In 1913, the naval ministry issued its own list of flag days. On 10 April 1915, the hoisting of any other flag on Danish soil was prohibited. The prohibition was lifted on 24 June 2023, after a
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was given to individual institutions and private companies, especially after 1870. In 1886, the war ministry introduced a regulation indicating that the flag should be flown from military buildings on thirteen specified days, including royal birthdays, the date of the signing of the
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A different theory is briefly discussed by
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under whose initiative and supervision several smaller crusades had already been conducted in
Estonia. The banner would then already be known in Estonia. Fabricius repeats Jørgensen's idea about the flag being planted in front of Bishop Theodorik's tent, which the enemy mistakenly attacked believing
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which led to the Danish participation in the Baltic crusades. Jørgensen speculates that Bishop
Theoderich might have carried the Knight Hospitaller's banner in the 1219 battle and that "the enemy thought this was the King's symbol and mistakenly stormed Bishop Theoderich tent. He claims that the
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Legend states that a red cloth with the white cross simply fell from the sky in the middle of the 13th-century Battle of
Valdemar, after which the Danes were victorious. As a badge of divine right, Denmark flew its cross in the other Scandinavian countries it ruled and as each nation gained
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were written by B.S. Ingemann, N.F.S. Grundtvig, Oehlenschläger, Chr. Winther and H.C. Andersen. By the 1830s, the military flag had become popular as an unofficial national flag, and its use by private citizens was outlawed in a circular enacted on 7 January 1834.
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The reason that the kings of
Denmark in the 14th century began displaying the cross banner in their coats of arms is unknown. Caspar Paludan-Müller (1873) suggested that it may reflect a banner sent by the pope to support the king during the
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from 1848 to 1850, the flag was still very widely displayed, and the prohibition of private use was repealed in a regulation of 7 July 1854 that for the first time allowed Danish citizens to display the
Dannebrog (but not the swallow-tailed
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Many predominantly
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Used as a maritime flag since the 16th century, the Dannebrog was introduced as a regimental flag in the Danish army in 1785, and for the militia (landeværn) in 1801. From 1842, it was used as the flag of the entire army.
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lengths of those". The proportions are thus: 3:1:3 vertically and 3:1:4.5 horizontally. This definition are the absolute proportions for the Danish national flag to this day, for both the civil version of the flag
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604:("Twelve Splendours of Denmark"), in splendour number nine, the same story is retold almost verbatim, with a paragraph inserted correcting the year to 1219. Now, the flag is falling from the sky in the
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In Swedish national historiography of the 18th century, there is a tale paralleling the Danish legend, in which a golden cross appears in the blue sky during a Swedish battle in Finland in 1157.
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It is this third account that has been the most influential, and some historians have treated it as the primary account taken from a (lost) source dating to the first half of the 15th century.
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According to the regulation of 11 June 1748, the colour was simply red, which is common known today as "Dannebrog rød" ("Dannebrog red"). The only red fabric dye then available was made of
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The possible historical nucleus behind this origin legend was extensively discussed by Danish historians in the 19th to 20th centuries. One such example is
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of the flags height. The two first fields ,ist be square in form with the sides three times the cross width. The two outer fields are rectangular and
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the length of the rectangular fields". Thus, if compared to the standard of 1696, both the rectangular fields and the tails have decreased in size.
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miraculously fell from the sky. The King took it and showed it to the troops, their hearts were filled with courage, and the Danes won the battle.
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since the 14th century. An origin legend with considerable impact on Danish national historiography connects the introduction of the flag to the
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in other European countries, the military flag increasingly came to be seen as representing the nation itself. Poems of the period invoking the
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From about 1750 to the early 19th century, a number of ships and companies in which the government has interests received approval to use the
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are autonomous territories within the Kingdom of Denmark. They have their own official flags.
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origin of the legend of the falling flag comes from this confusion in the battle".
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of being the oldest continuously used national flag, that is since 1625.
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the length of the square fields. The tails are the length of the flag".
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and were later used as representing saints (as in the
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independence, they incorporated the Christian symbol.
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Information sign at Guinness World Records Copenhagen
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in blue, orange and green Designed by Mogens Bohøj.
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1909:, a breed of pig bred to look like the Danish flag.
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1308:(the King's flag), as follows: "The cross must be
2112:State Religion Relationships and Human Rights Law
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725:1340–1370, such a banner is shown alongside the
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2023:(1920 edition) listed it as "dated or poetic" (
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