Dancing for Joy (I Love You No.1) by sandra46

Photography • People • posted on Mar 10, 2009

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I was wandering around when I met these people at a Sunday market of regional specialities: the stand of the Sardinian nougat played some lively music aloud. These people were overcome by an outburst of joy. Just a few seconds of dancing to make a bleak Sunday merrier. Thank you for your comments! The flag is nicknamed "the Four Moors' Banner" ("Bandiera dei Quattro Mori"). The flag is white with a red cross and four Moor's heads in the quarters. According to the Iberic tradition, the flag was created by King of Aragon Peter I after the victory of Alcoraz (1096). The battle was won with the help of St. George, therefore the red cross; the heads are those of the four defeated Moorish kings. The Sardinian tradition associates the Four Moors' banner to the mythical standard given by Pope Benedict II to the Pisans, who helped the Sardinians to fight the Sarracen invaders in 1017. The oldest representation of the emblem dates back to 1281, and can be seen on a seal of the Royal Chancellery of Peter the Great of Aragon. The Four Moors were associated to Sardinia only in the second half of the XIVth century, however. The emblem was widely used in the Spanish Sardinia, on engravings, coins and the standards of the special corps "Tercios de Cederna", created by Don Carlos to protect the island, and which fought the Turks in Tunis (1535) and Lepanto (1571). The representation of the Moors was not fixed: the Moors might face right or left or each other two by two, might be crowned, and might be banded. In the middle of the 18th century the Moors faced left and were eye-banded. A given reason for this is the lack of liberalism of the Piemontese government against the Sardinian population. The emblem was later used by the "Brigata Sassari" .In 1952 the emblem became the official symbol of the Region. The Four Moors face the fly and the band was placed on their forehead. Source: B. Fois "Lo stemma dei quattro mori, breve storia dell'emblema dei Sardi". Carlo Delfino Editore, Sassari (1990).