Editing Esperanto symbols (section)

=== ''Verda Stelo'' ===
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[[Image:Esperanto star.svg|thumb|right|The Green Star ({{Lang|eo|Verda Stelo}})]]
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.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Rapley |first1=Ian |title=When global and local culture meet: Esperanto in 1920s rural Japan |journal=Language Problems and Language Planning |date=1 January 2013 |volume=37 |issue=2 |pages=179–196 |doi=10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap |url=https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/journals/10.1075/lplp.37.2.04rap |access-date=13 March 2023 |quote="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" |url-access=subscription}}</ref> In a letter to ''The British Esperantist'' in 1911, [[L. L. Zamenhof]], the creator of Esperanto, wrote: "It seems to me, that my attention was drawn to the color green by Mr. [[Richard H. Geoghegan]] 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 color as a symbol of HOPE. About the five-pointed star, it seems to me, that at first Mr. [[Louis de Beaufront|de Beaufront]] had it imprinted on his grammar [of Esperanto]. I liked that and I adopted it as a symbol. Afterward by association of ideas, the star appeared with a green color."<ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 1912 |title=La Deveno de la Verda Stelo |url=https://archive.org/details/britaesperantisto_1912_n086_feb/page/33/mode/1up |journal=The British Esperantist |issue=86 |pages=34}}</ref>

The ''Verda Stelo'' was first proposed in an 1892 article in [[La Esperantisto]] for use as a symbol of mutual recognition among [[Esperantist|Esperantists]]. The [[flag]] was created by the Esperanto Club of [[Boulogne-sur-Mer]], initially for their own use, but was adopted as the flag of the worldwide Esperanto movement by a decision of the first [[World Esperanto Congress]], which took place in 1905 in that town.