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![[Flag of Africa]](../images/t/tn_g14f.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 November 2007
The 53rd flag mentioned and illustrated in the
Book of All Kingdoms is attributed
to Africa, a city(?) apparently in current Libya or Tunisia. This as depicted in
the
2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a white
flag with purple crescent pointing to the hoist, in the ogival default shape of
this source. The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the
flag thus: "E el rey de África á por seńales un pendón blanco con una luna
cárdena atal." (And the king of Africa has for device a white pendon with a
purple moon like this.)
António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 November 2007
National Geographic (1917)
identifies this as Mahdia, Tunisia (p.393). According to Wikipedia Mahdia in
medieval times was capital city of Ifriqiya, the former Roman province of Africa
(meaning not the whole continent but the former Cartaginian lands in Tunisia and
Libya, and a bit of Algeria).
Ned Smith, 23 November 2007
![[Flag of Tunez]](../images/t/tn-tn14f.gif)
image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 23 November 2007
The 54th flag mentioned and illustrated in the
Book of All Kingdoms is attributed
to Tunez, Tunis in English. This as depicted in the
2005 Spanish illustrated transcription, a white
flag with black crescent pointing to the hoist, in the ogival default shape of
this source. The anonymous author of
Book of All Kingdoms describes the
flag thus: "El rey dende á por seńales un pendón blanco con una luna prieta tal."
(And the king thereof has for device a white pendon with a black moon like
this.)
António Martins-Tuválkin,, 30 November 2007