File:Muzzaffar (Mogadishu area) flag according to 1576 Portuguese map.svg

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Summary

One interpretation of the flag shown next to the Mogadishu area on a 1576 map by Fernão Vaz Doura.

This is a non-exact vector re-creation from scratch (i.e. not a tracing) of image File:Muzzaffar flag.JPG by User:Scoobycentric, in turn partially based on the interpretations by Jorge Candeias of markings on an old map (see http://flagspot.net/flags/eaf-1576.html ).

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Short title	Mogadishu area flag according to 1576 Portuguese map.

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