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The flag of Italy (Italian: bandiera d'Italia, Italian: [banˈdjɛːra diˈtaːlja]), often referred to as The Tricolour (il Tricolore, Italian: [il trikoˈloːre]), is a flag featuring three equally sized vertical pales of green, white and red, with the green at the hoist side, as defined by Article 12 of the Constitution of the Italian Republic. [1]
Flag of the Cispadane Republic, established on 7 January 1797. It was the first Italian tricolour flag. Napoleon Bonaparte, in a letter from Milan to an executive director on 11 October 1796, stated that the Legione Lombarda had chosen these colours as the national colours. [17]
The use of the Italian tricolour was not limited to the presence of green, white and red in a cockade, the latter, having been born on 21 August 1789, heralded by seven years the first tricolour war flag, which was chosen by the Lombard Legion on 11 October 1796, [5] which is associated with the first official approval of the Italian national ...
The tower of the town hall of Cherasco. The oldest documented mention of the Italian tricolour flag is linked to the first descent of Napoleon in the Italian Peninsula.With the start of the first campaign in Italy, in many places the Jacobins of the peninsula rose up, contributing, together with the Italian soldiers framed in the Napoleonic army, to the French victories.
The state flag had no letters. An Italian tricolour with two "R"s (Repubblica Romana) in the center. 1859–1860 Flag of the United Provinces of Central Italy: An Italian tricolour. 1860–1861 Flag of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies: An Italian tricolour with the arms of the King of the Two Sicilies in the center. 1861–1946
Flag of the Cispadane Republic. The day was established by law n. 671 of 31 December 1996 with the intention of celebrating the bicentenary of the birth in Reggio nell'Emilia of the Italian flag, which officially took place, as already mentioned, on 7 January 1797 with the official adoption of the Tricolour by the Cispadana Republic, a sister republic of the French First Republic born the ...
The Italian Air Force’s aerobatic demonstration team, the Frecce Tricolori, draped the sky above Genoa in the colors of the Italian flag on May 26, as part of a five-day itinerary of flyovers to ...
The Italian tricolour cockade appeared for the first time in Genoa on 21 August 1789, [22] and with it the colours of the three Italian national colours, [22] anticipating by seven years the first tricolour military banner, which was adopted by the Lombard Legion in Milan on 11 October 1796, [23] and of eight years the birth of the flag of ...