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The flag and coat of arms of Moldavia, one of the two Danubian Principalities, together with Wallachia, which formed the basis for the Romanian state, were subject to numerous changes throughout their history. ==History== :''See also: Flag of Romania, Coat of arms of Romania, Flag of Moldova, Coat of arms of Moldova.'' A princely standard was first attested under the rule of Prince Stephen the Great (late 15th century), depicting an ''or'' aurochs/wisent head (most likely alluding to the legends surrounding Moldavia's foundation by Dragoş), flanked by stylised figures of the Sun and crescent Moon (or other symbols, such as the rosette and star) set against a ''gules'' (or possibly ''purpure'') background; its obverse displayed the figure of Saint George slaying the Dragon. The depiction of the Battle of Baia (1476) in Johannes de Thurocz's ''Chronicle'' shows Moldavian troops carrying a pennant with the aurochs head on ''pales'' of unspecified colour. In 1574, Moldavian delegates to the coronation of Henry III of Poland are attested to have carried a blue banner with the auroch's head. Moldavia's fall under Ottoman Empire control, a process which was accelerated during the 16th century, saw a decline in flag usage; as princes became appointees of the Sultans, the usage of a ''sanjak'' as a mark of authority became widespread. In the coat of arms (either seal or blazon), the aurochs was initially a crest over a helmet and ''party per pale'' escutcheon, charged with either ''fleur-de-lis'' dexter and ''bars'' sinister (interpreted as being alternating ''vert'' and ''or'') or the ''Patriarchal cross'' dexter (closely resembling the ''Cross of Lorraine'' in usual renditions) and ''fleur-de-lis'' sinister. In time reduced to the simple depiction of an aurochs head on escutcheon, it was featured alongside the arms of Wallachia and Transylvania on Michael the Brave's seal, as well as only alongside Wallachia's on various symbols favored by rulers such as Radu Mihnea and several Phanariotes (in the latter case, it was more often than not accompanied by the double-headed eagle of Byzantine tradition). The prevalent ''gules'' (or red) and ''or'' (yellow) display was replaced, towards the beginning of the 19th century, by variations on a red-blue theme. As such, when the Treaty of Adrianople allowed Wallachia and Moldavia a measure of sovereignty, Sultan Mahmud II awarded Moldavia a red over blue pennant to be used by its military, and Wallachia a yellow over blue one; Moldavia's pennant was similar to the version given recognition by Austria-Hungary as the ''Landesfarben'' of Bukovina (the latter was blue over red). During the ''Organic Statute'' rule of Mihail Sturdza, the pennant was replaced by a war flag/naval ensign and a civil ensign with a blue field and a red canton standing for Ottoman suzerainty (''see Ottoman Flag''). Grigore Alexandru Ghica was to include the color yellow, already present in the pan-Romanian horizontal tricolour favored by the 1848 revolutionaries, in the war flag's pattern. In 1858, the aurochs became the central theme of the most valuable stamp in Romanian postal history, the ''Cap de Bour''. The aurochs head (dexter) and Wallachia's eagle (sinister) were included as emblems on the tricolour adopted by Alexandru Ioan Cuza after the union of the Danubian Principalities in 1859; the arms of Moldavia are nowadays represented in the coat of arms of Romania, as well as in that of the short-lived Moldavian Democratic Republic and present-day Moldova (having previously featured in the coat of arms of Bessarabia within the Russian Empire). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flag and coat of arms of Moldavia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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