This word has been used as an epithet of various Vedic deities, like Varuna, and has been attested in the Holy Rig Veda, possibly the oldest compiled book among the Indo-Europeans.

The oldest attested Indo-Iranian languages are Vedic Sanskrit ( ancient Indo-Aryan ), Older and Younger Avestan and Old Persian ( ancient Iranian languages ).

The oldest attested form is the yellow form, called in the 19th century, but renamed by Elizaburo Hoshino, an early 20th-century koi breeder.

This qualifies Rigvedic Sanskrit as one of the oldest attestations of any Indo-Iranian language, and one of the earliest attested members of the Indo-European language family, the family which includes English and most European languages.

Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was one of the old Iranian languages, and is the oldest attested member of the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family.

The oldest attested Prakrits are the Buddhist and Jain canonical languages Pali and Ardha Magadhi, respectively.

The term athame derives, via a series of corruptions, from the late Latin artavus (" quill knife "), which is well attested in the oldest mansucripts of the Key of Solomon.

The oldest idea, attested in the early 17th century, is that Sæmundr fróði wrote the work.

Established in the first decade of the 8th century and first attested in a document dated 854 AD ; Ribe is the oldest town in Denmark.

This is confirmed by the implicit approval of St. Gregory the Great and by well attested facts ; in the East, for example, Hilarion, Ephrem, and other confessors were publicly honoured in the fourth century ; and, in the West, St. Martin of Tours, as is gathered plainly from the oldest Breviaries and the Mozarabic Missal, and St. Hilary of Poitiers, as can be shown from the very ancient Mass-book known as " Missale Francorum ", were objects of a like cultus in the same century.

The Old Nubian language is attested from the 8th century, and is thus the oldest recorded language of Africa outside of the Afro-Asiatic group.

Vedic Sanskrit is the oldest attested language of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European family.

Old Persian is one of the oldest Indo-European languages which is attested in original texts.

Thus, although Buzău's name is attested by documents as a river with a polis on its banks, since the 4th century, and as a market town since 1431, the oldest building in the city is the Vergu-Mănăilă house, erected as recently as the 18th century, around 1780.

The heartland of this oldest attested language of Anatolia, before the arrival of Hittite language speakers, ranged from Hattusa ( which they called " Hattus ") northward to Nerik.

This province is the location of the oldest Hindu kingdom in Indonesia, Kutai, the existence of which is attested to by a stone manuscript, or Prasasti, which is now kept in the National Museum in Jakarta.

Frequently, efforts to look for deeper linguistic origins of these languages will also attempt to integrate them into attested extinct languages of Europe, such as the Etruscan language of Northern Italy, the Ligurian language of Italy, the Lemnian language of the Aegean Island of Lemnos, the Minoan language aka Linear A of ancient Crete, the Sumerian language once spoken in Mesopotamia ( which is the oldest attested written language ), the language of the Indus River Valley civilization, the Elamite language of Iran, and the Hurrian language and Hattic language of Anatolia.

The Afro-Asiatic Coptic language of ancient Egypt is one of the two oldest written language on Earth ( the other being the Sumerian language ) dating in written form to approximately 3000 BCE, and the Semitic Akkadian language was also attested in writing from a very early date ( ca.

Old Japanese when first attested had eight vowels, rather than the current five ( which were lost within a century of the oldest preserved writings ) which was close to the vowel system seen in Uralic and Altaic languages.

Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was one of the old Iranian languages, and is the oldest attested member of the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family.

Cochin Jews, also called Malabar Jews ( Malabar Yehudan ) and Yuda Mappila, are the oldest group of Jews in India, with roots claimed to date to the time of King Solomon, though historically attested migration dates from the fall of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

Dannebrog is the oldest state flag in the world still in use by an independent nation.

Some historians believe that the story by Petrus Olai refers to a source from the first half of the 15th century, making this the oldest reference to the falling flag.

The Flag of Denmark is the oldest flag still in use

* The flag of Denmark is the oldest state flag still in use ( dates back to the 13th century ).

* The flag of the Netherlands is the oldest tricolour.

* 1941 – Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines took its first flight between Manila ( from Nielson Field ) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.

It is the oldest tricolor flag.

The exact age of the Swedish flag is not known, but the oldest recorded pictures of a blue cloth with a yellow cross date from the early 16th century, during the reign of King Gustaf Vasa.

The Bedford flag on display at the Bedford Free Public Library is the oldest known surviving intact battle flag in the United States.

* Annin & Co., is the world's oldest & largest flag manufacturer and has its main manufacturing plant in Verona.

S. C. Compania Națională de Transporturi Aeriene Române TAROM S. A., doing business as TAROM Romanian Air Transport, is the flag carrier and oldest currently operating airline of Romania.

Lake Winnipeg lies along one of the oldest trading routes in North America to have flown the British flag.

Libyan Airlines (; transliterated: al-Khutut al-Jawiyah al-Libiyah ), known as Libyan Arab Airlines over several decades, is the oldest and the national flag carrier airline of Libya.

Flag of the Netherlands | Dutch tricolour flag, the oldest tricolour still in use

The flag of the state of Minas Gerais is the oldest one adopted in Brazil that was devised by Brazilians.

* The Bedford Flag, possibly the oldest extant battle flag of the American Revolution, bears the motto VINCE AUT MORIRE ( Conquer or Die )

Along with Windsor and Hartford, Wethersfield is thought by some to be represented by one of the three grapevines on the Connecticut state flag signifying the state's three oldest settlements.

Traditionally the oldest person on base lowers the tattered flag on sundown and the youngest raises a new one on sunup.

The krstaš-barjak, red version with a white cross and border, was in the 19th century fully implemented as the oldest martial flag.

One of the oldest depictions of the flag can be seen in a stained glass window at Westminster Abbey.

He flies his flag in HMS Victory, the world's oldest commissioned warship, which is preserved in dry dock in Portsmouth.

Monaco's flag is one of the world's oldest flags.