LUXEMBOURG / LËTZEBUERG   ("Grand" Duchy of)    (hmmm.... so fun !)    [www.lu]

            slavery unit : €        tongues : Luxemburgueze + German + French        600000 idiot monkeys on 2586 km²

            puke sects : X 73%    pagan 23%    muslim 4%

            Its triband is inspired both from this of the Netherlands (of which Luxembourg was part till 1867) & the French Tricolor (again!) but the colors come from the arms of the duchy (a gules lion over silver & azure burelles) which would date back from 1288. In order not to be confused with the Dutch flag the shade of the blue is lighter & the ratio is 3:5 instead of 2:3 (which is not very visible!). The present pattern was adopted on 12 June 1845, forbidden by the nazis in 1942 (becauze they had annexed the country), restored in 1945 & confirmed later on 16 AUGUST 1972.



                                                                                                                                        capital : LUXEMBURG




                1945   (independence restored)    (3:5)                civil ensign   (idiot stocky ratio 5:7 instead of 2:3)

                fascist & colonial 1942   (annexed and becomes part of Gau Moselland - Germany)    (3:5)

                fascist 1940   (invaded by Germany)    (3:5)

                1918   (independence restored)    (3:5)

                1914   (occupied by Germany)    (3:5)

                1866   (Grand Duchy of Luxemburg - Deutscher Bund dissolved / independence only when the personal union with Nederland ends in 1890)    (3:5)

                +        1848    (Luxemburg new flag + Deutscher Bund (DB) / German Confederation)    (Luxemburg in DB from 1815 but no flagz before 1848)

                1839    (new smaller Grand Duchy of Luxemburg [the eastern part] acknoledged de jure but maintained into a personal union with Nederland - Nederland)

                +        1831    (Luxemburg split into a western part annexed to Belgium and an eastern part that becomes Grand Duchy of Luxemburg but only de facto)

                1815   (Duchy of Luxemburg upshifted Grand Duchy - Nederland)

                1795   (annexed and becomes Département des Forêts - France)

                1715   (Austrian Nederland)

                1711   (House of  Wittelsbach - Bavaria)

                1700   (House of  Bourbon - France)

                1698    (Spanish Nederland)

                1684   (House of  Bourbon - France)

                1581    (Spanish Nederland)

                colonial 1516   (Spain / Habsburg)

                colonial 1482   (Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy)

                colonial 1443   (Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy)

                1242    (Henry the Fair adds blue bars to display the new Limburg-Luxemburg dynasty - County of Luxemburg upshifted Duchy in 1354 with the formal separation from Lorraine)

                1214   (Walram 3 of Limburg Count of Luxemburg)

                1086   (Henry 3 of Namur Count of Luxemburg)

                1059   (House of Lorraine - Conrad first Count of Luxemburg)

                962    (First Reich - Otto 1 first emperor of the Heiliges Römisches Reich)

                843    (Lothringen)

                800    (Carolus Magnus Empire)

                480    (Frankish Kingdom)

                57 BC    (Roman Empire)

                250 BC    (5 Celtic tribes : Eburons, Nervians, Menapians, Morii, Segni)






                                                                                                                                                                           + 2 BONUS FLAGZ :

                                                                                         MARKO's project                     MARKO's project for a civil ensign    (2:3)