FOTW

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Last modified: 2001-07-05 by rob raeside
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FOTW (Flags Of The World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini, and devoted to vexillology. Its flag was designed by Mark Sensen and adopted by FOTW on 8 March 1996. Click the flag to view its history and meaning. This waving flag was drawn by Pascal Gross.

Contents:

• About Flags of the World
• Accessing the FOTW web site
• Special pages
• If you'd like to help FOTW
• If you'd like FOTW to help you
• Related sites in the Webrings

See also:

• Disclaimers and copyright rules
• History of FOTW
• View our awards
• FOTW mirror sites
• Building your own copy of FOTW

Links to other sites:

• Flag Links and Personal Flags by Philippe Bondurand
• Tom Gregg's War Flags Glossary
• Edward Mooney's Flag Flying Days site
• The Philatelic Vexillology Society maintained by Robert Murray.
• Check Edward Mooney's miniflags site for flag images usable for icons.
• Look at the The FlagWire Channel for news about flags
• Shipmate's Flag News reports recently changed flags
• Edward Mooney's Flag Report gives hints and directions for writing a flag report.
• Medals of the World maintained by Megan Robertson.
• The National Anthems site.
• International Civic Heraldry site, maintained by Ralf Hartemink.
  
• Our page with other flag sites.

FOTW (Flags Of The World) is a site originally established by Giuseppe Bottasini, and devoted to vexillology. Here you can read more than 10,100 pages about flags and view more than 18,700 images of flags. The site is fed with news and images posted to the FOTW mailing list and with other contributions. The contributors and the Editorial Staff work at FOTW freely. The contents of these pages are freely offered to the Internet community.

Before accessing this site please read our disclaimers and copyright rules.

The information on FOTW can be accessed in several ways:

• Look for a country in the index of countries.
• Look for a specific page by its title in the index of titles.
• Check recent change in the index by modification date.
• Find a specific area on the map starting at the clickable map of the world.
• Select a specific map directly from the list of clickable maps.
• Search this site by keyword.
• Check your question in our list of Frequently asked questions.

Apart from pages describing the flags of the world as far as we know them, we also have:

• A glossary of vexillological terms.
• A bibliography of flag books.
• The UFE list: Unidentified flags and ensigns we've encountered - can you help us identifying them?
• The Colouring Book, with black-and-white line-drawings of flags for you to colour in.

If you've got some time to spare, please take a look at our list of Unidentified Flags and Ensigns. We can't identify them, but please contact us if you know anything about them.

Are you interested in helping maintain this site? Pages are edited by volunteer editors - qualifications include a keen interest in flags and a willingness to learn html editing. Graphics (flag images) require a willingness to work with graphics programs.
Contact the director for further information.

Or else, you can check the contributing page for other ways of contributing.

If you have a question about flags, please check our list of Frequently asked questions. If it isn't there, you can either visit the FOTW Message Board or mail us your question.

If you're trying to identify a flag you may try Flag Detective, being compiled by Edward Mooney.

FOTW is a member of FRINGE, the vexillological webring.

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