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Philadelphia (/ˌfɪləˈdɛlfiə/^ⓘFIL-ə-DEL-fee-ə), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the United States.

William Penn, an English Quaker and advocate of religious freedom, and served as the capital of the colonial era Province of Pennsylvania. It then played a vital role during the American Revolution and Revolutionary War. It served as the central meeting place for the nation’s Founding Fathers in hosting the First Continental Congress (1774) and the Second Continental Congress, during which the Founders formed the Continental Army, elected George Washington as its commander, and adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. During the Revolutionary War’s Philadelphia campaign, the city fell to the British Army, which occupied Philadelphia for nine months from September 1777 to June 1778.

Despite the royal charter, Penn bought the land from the local Lenape in an effort to establish good terms with the Native Americans and ensure peace for the colony. Penn made a treaty of friendship with Lenape chief Tammany under an elm tree at Shackamaxon, in what is now the city’s Fishtown neighborhood.

Penn planned a city on the Delaware River to serve as a port and place for government. Hoping that Philadelphia would become more like an English rural town instead of a city, Penn laid out roads on a grid plan to keep houses and businesses spread far apart with areas for gardens and orchards.

Penn named the city Philadelphia, which is Greek for ‘brotherly love’, derived from the Ancient Greek terms φίλοςphílos (‘beloved, dear’) and ἀδελφόςadelphós (‘brother, brotherly’).

Now to the flag. Many US cities are now either designing a brand new city flag or considering redoing their existing one, it would do them well to learn about the nascent USA city flag.

The flag was first designed in 1873 for the Vienna Worlds Fair. The official explanation is: “Featuring our city colors, azure-blue and golden-yellow, the colors symbolize the spirit and resilience of Philadelphia. In heraldry, azure-blue is derived from the color of the Heavens, and signifies the higher life / virtues of faith. Gold, represented by golden-yellow, is the metal of greatest value, is an emblem of high worth or eminent renown.” The flag is a yellow-on-blue bicolor vertical triband defaced with the seal of the city; the Philadelphia City Code defines the flag as divided vertically in 3 equal parts, of which the first and third shall be azure blue and the middle pale golden yellow with the city seal on the center of the yellow stripe.

The Vexillological term, defaced, means to put something on top of. The city coat of arms is in that center panel.

The coat of arms was designed mainly by Colonel Frank Marx and adopted by City Council on February 14, 1874. According to the City Code, the city seal is “ARMS — On a blue field, a fess golden between a plough above and a ship in full sail below; both proper. CREST — A right arm, nude, embowed, couped at shoulder, holding a pair of scales; all proper. SUPPORTERS — Two females, standing full face, the one on the left side of the shield habited white and purple, crowned with an olive wreath; in her right hand a scroll, charged with an anchor; all proper; the one on the right side habited white and blue; in her left hand a cornucopia, proper. MOTTO — PHILADELPHIA MANETO.”

‘Let Brotherly love continue’

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