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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]
An Italian tricolour with a red star in the center. 1992– Flag of Italians of Croatia: An Italian tricolour. 1950–1960 Flag of the Trust Territory of Somaliland: An Italian tricolour. 1946–2003 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2003–2006 Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006– Flag of Italy: An Italian tricolour. 2006– Flag of ...
The need to precisely define the colours was born from an event that happened at the Justus Lipsius building, seat of the Council of the European Union, of the European Council and of their Secretariat, when an Italian MEP, in 2002, noticed that the colours of the Italian flag were unrecognizable with red, for example, which had a shade that ...
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 Italian tricolour cockade, by convention, has the green in the centre, the white in an intermediate position and red in the periphery. This custom derives from one of the conceptual characteristics of the cockades, which can be imagined as flags rolled around the flagpole seen from above.
The Cispadane Republic (Italian: Repubblica Cispadana) was a short-lived client republic located in northern Italy, founded in 1796 with the protection of the French army, led by Napoleon Bonaparte. In the following year, it was merged with the Transpadane Republic (formerly the Duchy of Milan until 1796) to form the Cisalpine Republic .
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