National personification

A Nationalallegorie is an allegorical figure who represents a nation and its awarded idiosyncrasies. So it represents a human figure, one speaks of a national personification.

Examples

As a national personification apply:

  • Albania: Mother Albania, double-headed eagle
  • Armenia: Mother Armenia
  • Denmark: Holger Danske
  • Germany: German Michel, Germania, Federal Eagle Baden: Badenia, Baden Griffin
  • Bavaria Bavaria, the Bavarian lion
  • Berlin: the Berolinahaus, the Bear
  • Brunswick: Brunswick lion, Brunonia
  • Bremen: Bremen Roland
  • Franken: Franconia
  • Hamburg: Hammonia, Sociable Hummel
  • Hesse Hesse Lion
  • Mecklenburg- Vorpommern: Megalopolis, Greif & bull
  • Lower Saxony: the Saxon Steed, Saxon duke Widukind
  • Prussia: Borussia, the Prussian eagle
  • Palatinate: Palatia, the Palatinate Lion
  • Saxony Saxonia
  • Thuringia: the Schwarzburgia (as Nationalallegorie of the former principality of Schwarzburg -Sondershausen )
  • Westphalia: the Westfalen Horse
  • Scotland: Jock Tamson 's Bairns
  • Venice: Venetia, Markus Lion
  • Québec: Le Vieux de '37

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