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===Flag=== {{Main|Saint Piran's Flag}} [[File:Flag of Cornwall.svg|thumb|The flag of Cornwall]] [[Saint Piran]]'s Flag is the national flag and ancient banner of Cornwall,<ref name="auto">Payton (2004), p. 262.</ref><ref name="Rendle">{{cite web|url=http://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/Phil%20Rendle.pdf|title=Cornwall β The Mysteries of St Piran|last=Rendle|first=Phil|work=Proceedings of the XIX International Congress of Vexillology|publisher=The Flag Institute|access-date=17 January 2010|archive-date=30 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430082113/http://www.flaginstitute.org/pdfs/Phil%20Rendle.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="fotw">{{cite web|url=https://www.fotw.info/flags/gb-corn.html |title=Cross of Saint Piran |publisher=Flags of the World (FOTW) |access-date=17 January 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070117170419/https://www.fotw.info/flags/gb-corn.html |archive-date=17 January 2007 }}</ref> and an emblem of the Cornish people. The banner of Saint Piran is a white cross on a black background (in terms of [[heraldry]] 'sable, a cross argent'). According to legend Saint Piran adopted these colours from seeing the white tin in the black coals and ashes during his discovery of tin.<ref name="auto" /><ref>[[Davies Gilbert]] in 1826 described it as anciently the flag of St Piran and the banner of Cornwall, and another history of 1880 said that: "The white cross of St. Piran was the ancient banner of the Cornish people."</ref> The Cornish flag is an exact reverse of the former [[Brittany|Breton]] black cross [[Flag of Brittany|national flag]] and is known by the same name "[[Kroaz Du]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-corn.html |title=Cornwall (United Kingdom) |publisher=Crwflags.com |access-date=25 September 2010 |archive-date=15 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100715174513/http://www.crwflags.com/FOTW/FLAGS/gb-corn.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flags.net/UNKG12.htm#UNKG7400 |title=British Flags (United Kingdom) from The World Flag Database |publisher=Flags.net |access-date=25 September 2010 |archive-date=5 November 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101105165552/http://flags.net/UNKG12.htm#UNKG7400 |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Pamiatka z Kornwalii.jpg|thumb|right|Souvenir flags outside a Cornish cafΓ©]]
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