Antonio Prieto

In earlier times Jaffna was known as ?Yaalpaanam?. Geographically, the peninsula of Jaffna together with its seven little islands, crowns the island of Sri Lanka. Tamils originated mainly from different parts of southern India. In ancient times, the entire island (Ilankai or Lanka) may have come under the sway of the principal Dravidian dynasties, known as Chera, Chola and Pandya, and these Kingdoms collectively spanned the entire South Indian region.

Cevvirukkai Nadu was the ancestral home of the Arya Chakravarti, Kings of Jaffna. Cevvirukkai Nadu is the name of a place in Rameswaram, the southernmost Indian city which in the old days belonged to the Ganga Dynasty or Ganga Vamsa. The Arya Chakravarti, Kings of Jaffna, belonged to the Ganga Dynasty. They then entered into matrimonial alliances with Brahmins and assumed the title ?Arya? as a distinctive honorific.

The Royal Orders and Decorations

http://www.jaffnaroyalfamily.org/orders_decorations.php

The Royal Family Order of Jaffna (Y.K.V.C.)

Grand Collar and Collar Badge,

Sash Badge and Breast Star

Yaalpaanarasu Kudumpaththinar Viiraththiruththakaiththokuthic Cinnam

Dear Sirs

You can see this week in my web a PDF file with the decoratons of the Emperor

www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/indexeng.htm or www.coleccionesmilitares.com/cintas/index.htm

The two last

And more

more

Other two

Some medals taken from internet at: http://www.elmint.com/

The images of the previous medal with biz size resolution

My contribution. I dont know the name

The King Abdulad

Mi contribution with the pictures of the King Hussein and Abdulad

Two Saudi Arabia Medals in a Spanish bar

Liberation of Kuwait and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia 100 Years Medal

And the ribbon bar

Order of Saint Hermenegildo Commander and Cross, and the previous LK and KSA100

Not surely for all the identifications. Can be for High Officers of Officers school achademics decorations

This is a ribbon sheet for my next update of the web www.coleccionesmilitares.com

Another ribbon bar decorations

A ribbon bar from Yemen

For started the new topic a photo (credit: NATO) from Mauritania

A photo. Credit NATO

More ribbon bars

Unkown Medal

Any info about this medal?

Credit Photo: NATO

Ribbons:

Commander of the Order of the Throne, Unkown, Order of the Military

Order of the Star of War with devices, Unkown, Medal for the Algerian-Moroccan Campaign

Unkown, Unkown

Also you can see the Spanish Medals for the African Campaigns at: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/campafrica.htm

And finally another source references

ORDRES ET D?CORATIONS DE L'EMPIRE CH?RIFIEN AU TEMPS DU PROTECTORAT FRAN?AIS AU MAROC 1912 - 1956

Pierre Rousseau

http://www.memodoc.com/cadre.htm

D?CORATIONS FRANCE ET COLONIES

M. Delande, 1934

MEDAL FOR THE 1395/1975 "GREEN MARCH?

Oval, about 32 x 50 mm

Obverse: Inscriptions: upper part (where the star), left to right "King" "God" "Homeland"; Center (where the book), left to right "October 1975", in the left page of the book a group of people advancing and the right page of the book "Victory". The extreme right part "Shuwal 1395" that it is the equivalent in the arab calendar from hegira to october of 1975; low part "Green March"

Reverse: A sura of Coran, that that summarized she means "That God us of the Victory"

Ribbon: green with a thin red stripe in the centre

ORDEN DE LA HASANIA-ORDER OF HASANIA

Created by Dahir of May 23, 1949 and regulations of the same date.

To reward those very distinguished and notorious facts of Spaniards and Moroccans carried out in the Morocco Area to the Protectorate of Spain. This badge will be able to also be granted to foreigners whenever they have lent useful services in the Area Jalifiana.

The Order of Hasania will be composed of a star of eight tips of enamel in white, in form of crenels, with a golden crisscross morocco leather. In the center, a shield of enamel green emerald with a surrounded star of knots of five silver tips of a golden fringe with arabesque also golden, on a bottom of brown dark enamel; surroundings take a circle of green enamel between two golden fillets, and inside the circle and in the superior part a Arabic inscription: Mulei Hasan Ben Menhdi Ben Ismail, and in the inferior part, arabesques. The badge will go slope of a ring in way of half moon, of dull silver, subject for a ribbon in three parts: both lateral in scarlet red -the Morocco flag- and central stripe in green -the Prophet flag-.

The Knight badge it will be made of brilliant silver the fillet of the badge. The plaques of Commander and Grand Cross will go on a star of silver or gold.

Classes:

MENS:

Knight (Rifaat). The fillets of the badge will be made of brilliant silver. It will be suspended of the left side of the chest.

Officer (Litizas). Only differs of the previous one in that is of gold the fillet of the badge. It will also be suspended of the left side.

Commander (Saada). The same badge, only, by means of a golden pin, it will be taken to the neck.

Commander if Number (Fajama). As the previous, and, also, a silver plaque, in the right side of the chest.

Grand Cross (Sumu-u) As the previous badge, but with a gilt plaque. Also, a sash, with the badge of the order.

Collar (Kil-lada). A Necklace whose links, alternating, will be a half moon of dull silver with brilliant edges of gold and a rhombus of arabesque in whose end a shield of green enamel goes with edge of brilliant gold and a white star of five tips. The center of the Necklace is a locket of arabesque of gold it kills with two crossed lances and some funds of red and green enamel. Of this locket it will loll a plaque like that of Grand Cross.

WOMENS:

Bow (equivalent to the category of Official). The ribbon will go with golden fillets, and of her it will loll, in reduced dimensions, the badge.

Cordon (equivalent to Commander)..A green and red silk cordon and it will take silver fillets. The Cord will take, in reduced dimensions, the badge of Official.

Plaque (equivalent to Commander of Number). The Commander's plaque , but in more reduced proportions.

Grand Cross: Sash of 4 centimeters of width and the paque will be more reduced.

will Have, also, to reward civil subordinate services, so much European as indigenous, a silver badge and another of brass

More images at: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/hasania.htm

ORDEN DE LA CONSTANCIA-ORDER OF THE PERSEVERANCE

A very rare Order create by Dahir of 20 of Ramadan 1365 (August 18, 1946).

To reward the perseverance in the service of the arms and to reward with signal distinction to Ca?des of the Forces Jalifianas that having observed a spotless behavior dedicated the best thing from their life to a profession of so many risks and penalties, being constant example of military virtues for their troop, to which stimulated with their value and loyalty during their lingering permanency in lines

The Military Order of the Perseverance is believed in its two categories of: Medal and Badge

The Medal is formed by a star of five tips in enamel green emerald, edged with a golden fillet of a millimeter wide; the tips form drawing of Hayte, and for each one of the star's five angles they leave five golden rays; its central part is been by an emblem of Mehal-la, also of five tips and 12 millimeters of radio, in white enamel with their initials gilded in the center and layout in golden fillet of a millimeter wide; its total radio is of 20 millimeters, and in the superior tip, together to her from behind, it takes a half moon in silver, of 5 millimeters of radio whose tips unite to the spherical muff of a ring of gold that takes the ribbon in its inferior part. This is of red garnet color, with a green central stripe.

The Plaque is formed by the same Medal with radiations in silver over a five arms of double tip of gold, and of 32 millimeters of radio.

Both badges will be taken in the left side.

Sorry for the image. I dont see never any medal

My contribution for the Morocco Medals

ORDERS OF THE PROTECTORATE OF MOROCCO

The Spanish Morocco was the administrative portion of Northern Morocco, wich came under the Spanish dominion, dering the late 1800s and early 1900s, and remained in Spanish hands until Moroccan independence in 1958

In 1904, France and Spain divided the region. The Treaty of Algeciras in 1906 formalize the concession of the northern portion of Morocco to Spanish interest. Finally the Franco-Morocan Treaty of 1912 finalized the establishment of Spanish Morocco (Protectorate)

The three following orders can be considered Moroccans, since they were granted by Jalifa, but they are assimilable to Spanish orders

In general they rewarded Spaniards and Moroccans so much as to foreigners, for concrete services with character civilian or military in or for the Protectorate

ORDEN DE LA MEHDAU?A-ORDER OF MEHDAIUIA

Created by Decree Visirial of August 17, 1926 (7 of Safar 1345) with regulations by Decree Visirial of August 18, 1926 (8 of Safar 1345).

Modificate by Decree Visirial of August 6, 1945 (27 of Chaabau 1364).

The Order of Mehdauia is dedicated to reward the merits that people contract of one and another sex for the borrowed good services in favor of the cause from the Morocco Area to the Protectorate of Spain.

The badge of the Order, will be composed, in its central part, of an enameled circle, in which the Sun west will be represented, that is to say, "Mogreb" reflected in a green blued sea. Bounded to this circle a strip he will go, also of blue enamel, edged by a golden fillet. All that described previously will go locked in a Solomon's ring. The badge will loll of a green ribbon, with central white stripe.

In the reverse, in a circle of white enamel, figure the following Arab inscription: Muley Mehdi Ben Ismail, glorify it God. The plaque for the Commander and Gran Cross (or their equivalent ones) will be identical, with the single difference that everything she will go on silver disk or of gold, according to the category, and with the same motifs of ornamentation, but enlarged, without some inscription.

The Order will five classes:

MENS

1. Medal (Rifaat). Will be made of silver. Suspended of the left side of the chest.

2. Official (Litizas). Will only differ of the previous one in that the Solomon?s ring and the ornamentation will be made of gold. It will also be suspended of the left side of the chest.

3. Commander (Saada). The same badge, over a silver plaque, on the left side of the chest.

4. Commander of Number (Fajama). The same badge, over a gilt plaque, on the left side of the chest.

5. Grand Cross (Sumu-u). The previous and also a sash that crosses the right chest to left and of whose end will loll the badge of the order.

Also, the category of Grand Collar (Kil-lada), created by ordinance visirial of May 10, 1937.

WOMENS:

1. Bow (equivalent to officer?s category). The ribbon will go with golden fringes.

2. Cordon (equivalent to Commander's category).. The cordon is of green and white silk, and it will take silver fillets.

3. Band (equivalent to Commander's of Number category).

4. Grand Cross. A five centimeters wide sash, and the badge will be smaller

Will have, also, to reward services of civil and military subordinate, so much European as indigenous, a Brass Medal

More images at: www.coleccionesmilitares.com/medallas/texto/medhauia.htm

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