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Flag of the Hungarian People's Republic A horizontal tricolor of red, white and green with the state ("Kossuth") coat of arms in the center. 1:2 2:3 23 May 1957 – 20 August 2000 Flag of the Hungarian People's Republic and the Hungarian Republic: A horizontal tricolor of red, white and green. 20 March 1786 – 1 August 1869
The national flag of Hungary (Magyarország zászlaja) is a horizontal tricolour of red, white and green. In this exact form, it has been the official flag of Hungary since 23 May 1957. The flag's form originates from national republican movements of the 18th and 19th centuries, while its colours are from the Middle Ages.
The Kingdom of Hungary was an Axis power during World War II, intent on regaining Hungarian-majority territory that had been lost in the Treaty of Trianon, which it mostly did in early 1941 after the First and Second Vienna Awards and after joining the German invasion of Yugoslavia. By 1944, following heavy setbacks for the Axis, Horthy's ...
The Decline and Fall of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan: A Pictorial History of the Final Days of World War II (1967) Eby, Cecil D. Hungary at war: civilians and soldiers in World War II (Penn State Press, 1998). Don, Yehuda. "The Economic Effect of Antisemitic Discrimination: Hungarian Anti-Jewish Legislation, 1938-1944."
English: War Flag of the Kingdom of Hungary from 1 January 1939 to 8 May 1945 – size III and V (300 X 150 cm and 200 X 100 cm) – for use on two-storey and ground floor military buildings.
Flag of the uprising nobility of Pest County from the time of the Napoleonic Wars; Flag of the Honvéd Army in the closing months of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848; Flag of the Royal Hungarian Landwehr from 1869; Flag of the Royal Hungarian Army from 1938; Flag of the Hungarian Defence Forces from 1949; Flag of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956
English: Flag of Hungary from mid/late 1946 to 20 August 1949 and from 12 November 1956 to 23 May 1957. Magyar: Magyarország zászlaja 1946 közepe-vége és 1949. augusztus 20., valamint 1956. november 12. és 1957. május 23. között.
The "double" civil ensign, as a symbol of "corporate identity", was also used as the consular flag, as decreed on 18 February 1869. It came into use on 1 August 1869. Legations, however, flew the black-and-gold flag of Austria alongside the red-white-green flag of Hungary, while embassies flew the two national flags alongside the imperial ...