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Sensen and Dov Gutterman, 25 May 2002 This image of an
historical flag of Eritrea can be found in "Flags through the
Ages and Across the World" by Whitney Smith [smi75]. It has a
light blue background with a green wreath in the center. Chris
Pinette, 11 July 1996 According to The Flag Bulletin [fbn] of
May/June 1996, the Eritrean flag with the "UN blue" field and
green emblem was adopted in 1952 and used until the territory
was absorbed into Ethiopia in 1959. It continued in use as a
"flag of liberation" until 1993 when independence was Nick
Artimovich, 11 July 1996 According to page 88 of Flags of the
World by William Crampton (1990) [cra90], this flag was also
used as the flag of the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), which I
am assuming was the political movement for Eritrean
independence. Randy Young, 29 January 1999 The ELF was fo