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In 1905, delegates to the first conference of Esperantists at Boulogne-sur-Mer, unanimously approved a version differing from the modern only by the superimposition of an "E" over the green star. Other variants include that for Christian Esperantists, with a white Christian cross superimposed upon
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and from that time I began to publish all of my works with green covers . . . Looking at one of my pamphlets that I had entirely by chance printed with a green cover, he pointed out that this was the color of his homeland, Ireland; at that time it came to me, that we could certainly look at that
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Since the earliest days of Esperanto, the colour green has been used as a symbol of mutual recognition, and it appears prominently in all Esperanto symbols. In a letter to
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had it imprinted on his grammar . I liked that and I adopted it as a symbol. Afterward by association of ideas, the star appeared with a green color."
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Green being the colour adopted by the international Esperanto community, usually in the form of either a green star, or a green flag with a white star
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Heller, Monica (March 2017). "Dr. Esperanto, or Anthropology as Alternative Worlds: Dr. Esperanto, or Anthropology as Alternative Worlds".
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Esperanto revolutionaries and geeks : language politics, digital media and the making of an international community
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Many Esperantists display a habit of wearing t-shirts portraying Zamenhof and declaring knowledge of Esperanto
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Fians, Guilherme (2021). "When Esperantists Meet, or What Makes This Community International?".
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the green star, and that for Leftists, with the color of the field changed from green to red.
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color as a symbol of HOPE. About the five-pointed star, it seems to me, that at first Mr.
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dear as a symbol of international or supranational solidarity (with the
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as a symbol of socialism relates to an alleged encounter between
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Esperantist to mark the centenary of the creation of Esperanto.
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Some Esperanto speakers consider the traditional flag too
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is composed of a green background with a white square (
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Index

Esperanto flag
Esperanto
Language
Grammar
Phonology
Orthography
Braille
Vocabulary
Etymology
History
Zamenhof
Proto-Esperanto
Unua Libro
Dua Libro
La Esperantisto
Fundamento de Esperanto
Declaration of Boulogne
Montevideo Resolution
Manifesto of Rauma
Manifesto of Prague
Modern evolution of Esperanto
Culture
Esperanto movement
Esperantist
Esperantujo
Literature
Music
Film
La Espero
Libera Folio

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