Banner o Mexico

The **Banner o Mexico** (Spainyie: *Bandera de México*) is a vertical tricolor o green, white, an reid wi the naitional coat o airms chairged in the centre o the white stripe. While the meanin o the colors haes chynged ower time, thir three colors wur adoptit bi Mexico follaein independence frae Spain durin the kintra's War o Independence, an subsequent First Mexican Empire. The current banner wis adoptit in 1968, but the oweraw design haes been uised syne 1821, when the First Naitional Banner wis creatit. The current law o naitional seembols, Law on the Naitional Airms, Banner, an Anthem, that governs the uise o the naitional banner haes been in place syne 1984.

Red, white, an green are the colors o the naitional liberation airmy in Mexico. The central emblem is the Aztec pictogram for Tenochtitlan (nou Mexico Ceety), the centre o thair empire. It recaws the legend that inspired the Aztecs tae settle on wha wis oreeginally a lake-island. The form o the coat o airms wis maist recently revised in 1968. A ribbon in the naitional colors is at the bottom o the coat o airms. Throughoot history, the banner haes chynged fower times, as the design o the coat o airms an the lenth-width ratios o the banner hae been modified. Housomeivver, the coat o airms haes haed the same features throughoot: an eagle, hauldin a serpent in its talon, is percht on tap o a prickly peir cactus; the cactus is situatit on a rock that rises abuin a lake. The coat o airms is derived frae an Aztec legend that thair gods tauld them tae big a ceety whaur thay spot an eagle on a nopal eatin a serpent, which is nou Mexico Ceety. The current naitional banner, the Fowert Naitional Banner, is an aa uised as the Mexican naval ensign bi ships registered in Mexico.

## Chronology


} Independence -  Releegion -  Union
|- style="background:#fff;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 14 Aprile 1823Constitutional Congress
| style="text-align:left;"| 10 October 1824 – 1 Aprile 1829Guadalupe VictoriaPreses21 Januar 1858 - 28 December 1862Félix María ZuloagaPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Mexican RepublicDesigned biConstitutional Congress
|- style="text-align:center; background:#f9f9f9;"
| colspan="2"| Govrenment Executive10 October 1824 - 15 Mey 1867Reform War21 Januar 1858 - 28 December 1862
| colspan="2"| Regency o the Seicont Mexican Empire11 Julie 1863 - 18 November 1863
|- style="background:#fff;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 15 Julie 1864Constitutional Congress
| style="text-align:left;"| Maximilian I o MexicoEmperorJuan Nepomuceno AlmonteFirst Meenister
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Seicont Mexican EmpireDesigned biFerdinand Maximilian
|-
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center; background:#f9f9f9;"| Hope -  Purity -  Releegion
|- style="background:#f9f9f9;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 19 Juin 1867Govrenment Executive
| style="text-align:left;"| Benito Pablo Juárez GarcíaPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| **Readoptit**Banner o the Mexican RepublicDesigned biConstitutional Congress
|- style="background:#f9f9f9;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 1 Aprile 1893Govrenment Executive
| style="text-align:left;"| José de la Cruz Porfirio DíazPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Mexican RepublicDesigned biTomas de la Peña
|- style="background:#f9f9f9;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 20 September 1916Govrenment Executive
| style="text-align:left;"| Venustiano Carranza GarzaPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Unitit Mexican StatesDesigned biAntonio Gómez
|- style="background:#f9f9f9;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 5 Februar 1934Govrenment Executive
| style="text-align:left;"| Abelardo Rodríguez LujánPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Unitit Mexican StatesDesigned biJorge Enciso
|- style="background:#fff;"
| style="text-align:center;"| 16 September 1968Govrenment Executive
| style="text-align:left;"| Gustavo Díaz OrdazPreses
| style="text-align:center;"| 
| style="text-align:left;"| Banner o the Unitit Mexican StatesDesigned biFrancisco Eppens Helguera
|- style="background:#f9f9f9;"
| colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|  Hope -  Union -  Bluid o Heroes
|}

### Ithers
Ither banners wur flewn as Mexican banners, aither designed tae intimidate the enemy or tae act as identification. Thir banners wur considered athoot subsequent formal documentation as naitional banner an temporally situatit; Banner o Francisco I. Madero (9 Februar 1913), Banner o Doliente Hidalgo (2 Januar 1812), Banner o José María Morelos y Pavón, Banner o Francisco Villa, Banner o Siera Battalion, Banner o Jalisco Battalion, Libres de Puebla Battalion, Artillería Mina Battalion, Oaxaca Battalion, Toluca Battalion, Banner o Chihuahua Battalion, Banner o Durango Battalion, Banner o San Lorenzo Battalion, Banner o Lanceros Battalion, Banner o San Luis Potosí Battalion, Banner o Aguascalientes Battalion, Banner o Galeana Battalion (22 Mey 1864), Banner o San Blas Battalion (24 September 1846), Banner o Tres Villas Battalion, Banner o Milicias Battalion, Banner o Remixto Battalion, Banner o Quautla Battalion, Banner o 201 Squadron, Etc.

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