{
  "g": "h,empire,europe",
  "ns": "empires",
  "name": "Crown of Aragon",
  "now": "spain",
  "years": "1162–1716",
  "id": "aragon",
  "index": "c/spain:1162",
  "title": "Flag of the Crown of Aragon",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "yellow",
      "hex": "#fcdd09",
      "cmyk": "0/12/97/0",
      "note": "Gold of the Senyera."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#da121a",
      "cmyk": "0/92/88/14",
      "note": "The four pales."
    }
  ],
  "desc": "- The Crown of Aragon (1162–1716) was a dynastic federation centred on Aragon that expanded across the Mediterranean — Catalonia, Valencia, Majorca, Sicily, Sardinia, and briefly Athens and Naples\n - **Construction:** four red vertical stripes (palos) on a gold field — the **Senyera** — one of Europe's oldest continuously used flags, first attested in the 12th century\n - Modern versions add the Aragonese coat of arms (tree of Sobrarbe, Cross of Íñigo Arista, Moor's heads, royal bars)",
  "flag": "empires/aragon.svg",
  "countryData": {
    "name": "Crown of Aragon",
    "officialName": "Corona de Aragón",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Legend attributes the four red pales to Wilfred the Hairy's blood dragged across his gold shield by Charles the Bald — a 16th-century invention\n - Merged with Castile via the marriage of Ferdinand II and Isabella I in 1469, creating Spain\n - The pales survive on the flags of Catalonia, Valencia, Aragon, the Balearics, and Roussillon",
  "_name": "Crown of Aragon",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "aragon"
}