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The flag of Estonia waving above the Pikk Hermann tower of Toompea Castle in Tallinn. The national flag of Estonia (Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue at the top, black in the centre, and white at the bottom. The flag is called sinimustvalge (lit. ' blue-black-white ') in Estonian.
The flag on the top of the tower at 95 metres (312 ft) [1] above sea level is one of the main symbols of the national government in force. For the first time after the Soviet invasion of Estonia in 1944, the blue-black-white national flag of Estonia was raised again on the top of Pikk Hermann on 24 February 1989.
Red field with a white disc with a black swastika at a 45-degree angle. The swastika disk is slightly off-centre. 1918: Flag of German Empire: Horizontal black-white-red triband. 1896–1917: Flag of Russian Empire: Horizontal white-blue-red triband. 1858–1896: Flag of Russian Empire: Horizontal black-yellow-white triband. 1650–1721
The blue-black-white flag was first consecrated at Otepää on 4 June 1884, as the flag of the Estonian University Student Association. During the following years the blue-black-white flag became a national symbol. The flag was already used as state flag on 24 February, when Estonia declared independence.
The tricolore consists of three vertical bands of equal width, displaying the country's national colours: blue, white, and red. The blue band is positioned nearest the flagstaff, the white in the middle, and the red on the outside. Red, white and blue have come to represent liberty, equality and fraternity—the ideals of the French Revolution.
White flag, internationally recognised as a sign of truce, ceasefire, and surrender.The flag of the Kingdom of France in 1814–1830, during the Bourbon Restoration. Afghanistan (with black text)
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have showcased quite a bit of the red, white and blue colors that many of the national flags have.
Five unequal horizontal bands; the top-most band of blue - equal to one half the width of the flag - is followed by three bands of white, red, and white, each equal to 1/12 of the width, and a bottom stripe of blue equal to one quarter of the flag width; a circle of 10 yellow, five-pointed stars is centered on the red stripe and positioned 3/8 ...