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While some orders today retain the original notion of being an association or society of individuals, others make no distinction, and an "order" may even be the name of a decoration. Most historic chivalric orders imply a membership in a group, typically a confraternity .
Orders, decorations, and medals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orders, decorations and medals. The main articles for this category are order (distinction), medal and award. This is a container category. Due to its scope, it should contain only subcategories.
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This list of military decorations is an index to articles about notable military decorations. It is organized by country in alphabetical order and in order of precedence.
The orders, decorations, and medals of the Holy See include titles, chivalric orders, distinctions and medals honoured by the Holy See, with the Pope as the fount of honour, for deeds and merits of their recipients to the benefit of the Holy See, the Catholic Church, or their respective communities, societies, nations and the world at large.
Honours, decorations and medals are arranged in the "Order of Wear", an official list which describes the order in which they should be worn. Updates to the Order of Wear are published in The London Gazette when necessary. The current Order of Wear was published on 11 January 2019.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Orders, decorations and medals. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. Orders, decorations, and medals by country (21 C) Military decorations and medals templates (3 P) Order of the Lion of the Netherlands (2 C) Orders of knighthood (1 C, 2 P)
