EVOLUTION OF THE LEBANESE FLAG
By : Abdo Gedeon

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	The Phoenician Flag: This flag was blue, symbolizing the sea, yet the red color was later added to it  when the purple color was discovered.
	The Mamluks Flag : It consisted of a cloth embroidered with golden threads.
	The Rebels Flag : It consisted of a cross and a sword, both white, on a red cloth.
	The Rebels Flag: during Prince Ibrahim Era: It became a white cloth with a red carnation at the bottom right corner.
	The Lamaïte Flag: It consisted of a white cloth with a drawing of a Lion.
	The Shehabian Flag:   Consisted of a blue cloth with a white crescent.
	The Tannoukhian Flag: Consisted of 5 colors divided vertically in equal bands of white, blue, yellow, red and green.
	The Abi Kand Flag: Consisted of two vertical and equal bands, one yellow and one blue.
	The Maaniïtes Flag at the end of the Maaniïtes Emirate End of the 17th century.
	The National Maaniïtes Flag:  The Kaïssy Party Flag.
	The Jumblatian Flag: It consisted of a red flag with a green frame; a sword and a dark green hand in the middle.
	The Ottoman Flag :Consisted of a red cloth with a white crescent and white star in the center,  and remained as such until their departure in 1918.
	The Lebanese flag during the French Mandate it was similar to the Blue, White and Red French Flag with a green Cedar in the middle, and was designed  by the president of the Lebanese Nahda   renaissance Movement, the late Naoum Mukarzel.
	The Lebanese Cedar . Following the fall of the Ottoman Empire, it consisted of a white cloth with a green cedar in the center.
	The Independence Flag : As drawn by the MPs using pencils during the parliamentary session.
	The National Flag  White and Red with a cedar in the center. The Cedar consists of two thirds of the size of the white band.

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