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The national colours come from the coat of arms of the Czech Republic. The law explicitly specifies the correct order of colours as white–red–blue (with a white stripe on the top or on the left side) to distinguish Czech national colours from Pan-Slavic colours (blue–white–red) or Russian national colours (white–blue–red). The ...
The flag of the Czech Republic (Czech: státní vlajka České republiky) is the same as the flag of the former Czechoslovakia. Upon the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in December 1992, the Czech Republic kept the Czechoslovak flag while Slovakia adopted its own flag. The first flag of Czechoslovakia was based on the flag of Bohemia and was ...
tricolour flag of red, white and blue with golden inscription of ČS representing Czechs and Slovaks. 2:3 1939–1945 Flag of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia: tricolour flag of red, white and blue. 2:3 1990–1992 Flag of the Czech Republic in Czech and Slovak Federative Republic: 2:3
Nordic Cross Flag [14] Dominica The cross represents the Trinity [15] Dominican Republic A Bible, the color white stands for salvation [16] El Salvador Dios, Unión, Libertad (God, Union, Liberty) Fiji Crosses of St. George, St. Andrew and St. Patrick, dove: Finland Nordic Cross Flag [14] Georgia Jerusalem cross [17]
Article 14 of the Constitution of the Czech Republic lists national symbols: the coat of arms, the official colours (white, red, and blue), the national flag, the flag of the president, the official seal and the national anthem. Act No. 3/1993 refers to the national symbols and their usage. [1]
Yugoslavia, both the Kingdom (Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1918–1943) and the Republic (SFR Yugoslavia, 1943–1992) was a union of several Slavic nations, and therefore not only sported the pan-Slavic colors but adopted the pan-Slavic flag as its own (later adding a red star).
Many Christian denominations have their own denominational flag and display it alongside the ecumenical Christian Flag or independent from it. [5]Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See often display the Vatican flag along with their respective national flag, typically on opposite sides of the sanctuary, near the front door, or hoisted on flagstaffs outside.
Historical Bohemian flag in the work of Jacob Koebel: Wapen. Des heyligen Römischen Reichs Teutscher nation (1545) The flag of Bohemia is a historic flag, which now forms part of the design in the modern flag of the Czech Republic. The flag, a horizontal bicolour, was based on the colours of the former monarchs of Bohemia.