National Symbols
THE URSIDE FLAG
The flag of the URSIDE is a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal garnet red, black, and white bands.
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The Garnet Red represents the Warrior Soul and it's the symbol of our neverending link to the past.The black bar represents the night and his powerful influence on mind and the nobility.The white is the purity, the honesty and it's a closer connection to the ice.
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The colours to match our official animal mascottes of the micronation. The Garnet Red represents the Grizzly Bear in the Italian territory called "Orso Bruno", the black represents the main color of the Panda, while the white represents the color of the Ice Bear. Urside in italian means "the family of bears" for this reason we have three different bears as symbol of our micronation.
The inspiration of this flag comes from many historical flags and also micronational flags such as : Kingdom Of Naples Flag, Traditional European Flag, Mythological Atlantean Empire Flandrensis and Bardo.
The Cerimonial Flag (second flag on the right side) is adorned with the marquis crown of the noble family of the Grand Marquis, by a shield containing the three colors of the micronation with a black star in the center, that represent the pure energy of the universe.
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URSIDE COAT OF ARMS
The first coat of arms consist in the flag of Urside adorned with two bay leaves, representing the Greek descent of the Grand Marquis family.
Laurel, laurus nobilis, belongs to the lauraceae family, it is a plant native to Anatolia and the regions of the Mediterranean Sea that over the centuries has been cultivated throughout southern Europe. It is a perennial, evergreen shrub, which can reach 8 m in height, whose leaves are oval and double-colored, bright dark green on the front surface and opaque light green on the back surface, the flowers, which bloom between the months of March and April are very small, light yellow - greenish in color. Finally, it also produces fruits, that is small oval-shaped and black berries.
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The laurel is among the best known of antiquity, in ancient Greece and ancient Rome it was the symbol of peace and victory both in the military and in sports competitions, its branches were in fact intertwined to create crowns to be placed on the leader of the winners in the Pythian games and of the characters worthy of recognition and esteem, the laurel wreath was therefore the greatest honor.
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The Pythian games were one of the four Panhellenic games (collective term which indicates the four different sporting events, of a sacred nature, which were held in ancient Greece and which involved all the cities of Hellas. The four events were: The games Olympics, the most important and prestigious games, were held every four years in Olympia nell'Elide, dedicated to Zeus; The Pythian games, which were held every four years near Delphi, dedicated to Apollo; The nemei games, which were held every two years in Nemea, also dedicated to Zeus; The Isthmian games, which were held every two years near Corinth, dedicated to Poseidon), founded around the sixth century BC unlike the Olympic Games, they also included competitions for musicians and poets, who for the occasion competed in real athletic games, the sports competitions that were performed were the same as those held in Olympia.
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All the winners of the games received a laurel wreath which for the occasion came from the Tempe Valley in Thessaly. The poets who won and received the laurel wreath became "graduate poets" and people worthy of the most immense and royal esteem for this reason next to the word laurus there is the word nobilis.
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In ancient Greece, the laurel was the plant consecrated to Apollo, the God of music and poetry, lord of Delphi, the city where the first of the six temples erected in his honor was built with laurel branches, it was also the sacred plant consecrated to Asclepius, the son of Apollo, God of medicine and it is for this reason that for several centuries the plant especially the leaves were used as a cure for numerous diseases including the plague.
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The killing of Python gives life to the second mythological legend, told by Ovid (Publius Ovid Naso 43 BC - 18 AD), which also describes the birth of the laurel. Legend has it that one day the God of the Sun, Apollo, boasted to the God of Love, Cupid, that he had managed to kill the snake Python with the greatest ease and, proud of himself and his means, mocked the weapons of Cupid, bow and arrows.
Cupid resentful of Apollo's behavior, decided to show him how powerful he was and hit him with a golden arrow, the arrow capable of making the first divine or mortal person fall madly in love with the eye. The god Apollo, unaware of the story, placed his first glance on a nymph, Daphne, priestess of Gaea and daughter of the river god Ladone. When Cupid saw who Apollo had fallen in love with, that is, the nymph Daphne decided to hit her with a lead arrow, or the arrow that made love escape. A young mortal, Leucippus, was also in love with the nymph Daphne, who disguised himself as a woman in order to approach his beloved. Apollo learned of the story, to get rid of his rival, suggested to the nymphs to take one of their ritual baths (a type of bath in which the nymphs participated completely naked). In this way Leucippus was unmasked and killed by the nymphs themselves. Having the free field Apollo declared his love to Daphne but, this rejected him and ran away terrified. Apollo chased her and when he was about to reach her near the river Peneus, Daphne in despair invoked the help of Gaea and her father Ladone. Both of them helped by transforming it into a laurel tree. It was from that moment that the laurel became an evergreen plant consecrated to the divine Apollo, who is depicted with a wreath of intertwined laurel branches.
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The second coat of arms of Urside is inspired by the coat of arms of the noble family of the Regent. While the original one depicts two bears with a bomb thar rapresent the Norman an Nordic descendent of the family of the Grand Marquis.
The URSIDE coat of arms depicts a bear with the motto "Habere Non Haberi" by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, which means "to possess, not to be possessed".
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The colors of the coat of arms reflect those of the flag, red, black and white. In the center there is the grizzly bear representing strength, but there are also variants that contain both the other two bears and the ursidae trio.
The bear species is the symbol of the nation as well as a national animal. Bears are traditionally symbolises bravery, valour, strength, and royalty.
National Anthem
The March Ursides - Composed by Wolfsangel Tod
