Grand Cross - Denomination "Grand Cordons"

Denomination "Grand Cordons"

The orders in which the highest rank (or second after "Collar") is named "Grand Cordons" include the following orders:

  • Belgium: Grand Cordons of the Order of Leopold (highest)
  • Egypt: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Nile (highest)
  • Japan: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Chrysanthemum (2nd after Collar)
  • Japan: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Rising Sun (highest)
  • Jordan‏: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Star of Jordan (highest)
  • Persia: Grand Cordons of the Order of the Lion and the Sun
  • Tunisia: Grand Cordons of the Nichan Iftikhar (highest)

or was the highest :

  • Poland: Grand Cordons of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (highest 1974 to 1991, now Grand Cross)
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