white flag
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symbol with different meanings throughout history and depending on the locale
Key facts
- Use
- Civil and war flag , naval ensign
- Adopted
- 29 July 1899 (Hague Convention I)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- protective sign
- Subclass of
- flag
- Image
- White flag waving.svg
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- main regulatory text
- Regulations Concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land
- used by
- parlimentaire
- color
- white
- Unicode character
- 🏳
- Commons category
- White flags
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
White flags have had different meanings throughout history and depending on the locale.
Contemporary use
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “white flag” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.