User:Cakelot1/FOTW

Flags of the World (abbreviated FOTW or FotW) is an Internet-based  vexillological  association  and  resource. Beginning as a Yahoo Group, in 1993, the website was established in 1995 by Giuseppe Bottasini, a computer engineer from Milan. It became a memeber of FIAV in 2001. Readers submit contributions via a mailing list.

Flags of the World also maintains the "Dictionary of Vexillology" a glossary of English language flag terms. This was started in 2005 by Andreis Petrus Burgers, Terence Martin and Christopher Southworth. It was been criticized for including words of its own formulation, such as the term "archivexillum" which was coined by the editors of Flags of the World themselves in 2010.