Ethiopia, Empire (until 1975)

Last modified: 2005-02-19 by zeljko heimer
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• The Lion on the Flag
• War Ensign (blue ensign)
• Imperial Standard
• Minister of Defence

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• Ethiopia
• National index

The Lion on the Flag

from Ethiopia home page 1999	by Jaume Ollé, 6 February 1999

by Yared Haile Selassie, 21 August 2004	by Yared Haile Selassie, 21 August 2004

In an atlas that I have from 1969, there is a flag chart, showing the Ethiopian flag with the golden crowned lion. It is reproduced here from the Ethiopia home page (http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/dmulholl/ethiopia/ethiopia.html now defunct) at the Abysinnian Cyberspace Gateway. The lion is golden (or orange?) and outlined with black. Since W. Smith claims that the pure green yellow red flag was adopted (reintroduced) in 1941 (although he indicates it as civil flag and ensign), this might be the state's (government) flag.
Željko Heimer, 12 June 1996

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