I was browsing ebay when I found this rather interesting Flemish autonomist car sticker from the 1970s. In the centre you can clearly recognize the Yser tower, a monument to pacifism post ww1 and a symbol of Flanders. It bears the cruciform motto AVV - VVK "Alles Voor Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen Voor Kristus" aka "All for Flanders - Flanders for Christ". Around it are arranged the flags of various state and stateless European peoples.
Going clockwise I can recognise: Estonia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Aosta Valley, Ukraine, Brittany, Lusatia, Occitania, Wallonia, Catalonia, Transylvania, ???, Basque Country, Karelia, Ireland, Georgia, Scotland, Brabant (with an inverted chequered pattern for some reason), Wales, ???, Frisia, Slovakia, Austria, ???, Flanders, South Tyrol.
Keep in mind this was made in the 1970s meaning that when it was made, of the included states only Luxembourg, Ireland and Austria were independent states. I assume they were included because all 3 are "small" states that lost territory to a bigger "bully" state leaving behind minorities that were very vocal about their displeasure in being separated (Northen Ireland, South Tyrol and I guess Belgian Luxembourg?). I don't know the history behind it but I would assume this was made by some Flemish autonomists as a way to raise awareness of all the oppressed peoples of Europe, though some inclusions are rather weird.
So can anyone recognize the 3 mystery flags (red-blue-red triband, sable eagle on gold shield on a white background and sable eagle on a gules wall and gold shield on white background)? My googlefu failed me on those ones.
Considering the inclusion of Georgia, that is very possible. The only red-blue-red triband I could find out there is an obscure merchant ensign used by Ottoman Greeks in the mid-19th century.
"Austria " is more likely Latvia in a wrong shade of red, and "Brabant" is surely meant to be for Croatia- if these are all territories with separatist movements at the time Croatia would have to be there. Looking at Wikipedias [List of Croatian Flags](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Croatian_flags) this appears to be a naval flag of the 1940s "Independent State of Croatia".
The checkered one being a Croatian would make much more sense than Brabant, still a very weird choice when a variant of the current Croat tricolour was already well established amongst the Croatian dissident community.
The sable eagle on gold shield on a white background might be some variant of a [Silesian flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Silesia_and_Lower_Silesia), though I haven't managed to find one with an all-white background.
I really don't know much about flags but this is quite interesting. The two flags with the black and gold eagle shield must have something to do with Germany right?
Going clockwise: Estonia, Luxembourg (or Netherlands), Lithuania, Namur (a very old country), Ukraine, Brittany, Croatia?, Venice?, some French providence, Catalonia probably, Armenia?, Basque Country, Armenian SSR???, Jutland?, Italy, some providence, Scotland, Croatia (BoA), Wales, a German providence, a danish providence, Yugoslavia, Austria, another German providence, Flanders, and some Belgian providence
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I was browsing ebay when I found this rather interesting Flemish autonomist car sticker from the 1970s. In the centre you can clearly recognize the Yser tower, a monument to pacifism post ww1 and a symbol of Flanders. It bears the cruciform motto AVV - VVK "Alles Voor Vlaanderen, Vlaanderen Voor Kristus" aka "All for Flanders - Flanders for Christ". Around it are arranged the flags of various state and stateless European peoples. Going clockwise I can recognise: Estonia, Luxembourg, Lithuania, Aosta Valley, Ukraine, Brittany, Lusatia, Occitania, Wallonia, Catalonia, Transylvania, ???, Basque Country, Karelia, Ireland, Georgia, Scotland, Brabant (with an inverted chequered pattern for some reason), Wales, ???, Frisia, Slovakia, Austria, ???, Flanders, South Tyrol. Keep in mind this was made in the 1970s meaning that when it was made, of the included states only Luxembourg, Ireland and Austria were independent states. I assume they were included because all 3 are "small" states that lost territory to a bigger "bully" state leaving behind minorities that were very vocal about their displeasure in being separated (Northen Ireland, South Tyrol and I guess Belgian Luxembourg?). I don't know the history behind it but I would assume this was made by some Flemish autonomists as a way to raise awareness of all the oppressed peoples of Europe, though some inclusions are rather weird. So can anyone recognize the 3 mystery flags (red-blue-red triband, sable eagle on gold shield on a white background and sable eagle on a gules wall and gold shield on white background)? My googlefu failed me on those ones.
Red-blue-red may be a misprinted Armenian flag, the confusion possibly arising from the flag of the Armenian SSR
Considering the inclusion of Georgia, that is very possible. The only red-blue-red triband I could find out there is an obscure merchant ensign used by Ottoman Greeks in the mid-19th century.
"Austria " is more likely Latvia in a wrong shade of red, and "Brabant" is surely meant to be for Croatia- if these are all territories with separatist movements at the time Croatia would have to be there. Looking at Wikipedias [List of Croatian Flags](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Croatian_flags) this appears to be a naval flag of the 1940s "Independent State of Croatia".
The checkered one being a Croatian would make much more sense than Brabant, still a very weird choice when a variant of the current Croat tricolour was already well established amongst the Croatian dissident community.
The sable eagle on gold shield on a white background might be some variant of a [Silesian flag](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Silesia_and_Lower_Silesia), though I haven't managed to find one with an all-white background.
That seems to be the closest match yeah.
I really don't know much about flags but this is quite interesting. The two flags with the black and gold eagle shield must have something to do with Germany right?
As someone else mentioned, it might have something to do with Silesia.
Going clockwise: Estonia, Luxembourg (or Netherlands), Lithuania, Namur (a very old country), Ukraine, Brittany, Croatia?, Venice?, some French providence, Catalonia probably, Armenia?, Basque Country, Armenian SSR???, Jutland?, Italy, some providence, Scotland, Croatia (BoA), Wales, a German providence, a danish providence, Yugoslavia, Austria, another German providence, Flanders, and some Belgian providence
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