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The national flag of Bulgaria is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. The flag was first adopted after the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, when Bulgaria gained de facto independence.
A red square flag with a white outline of a star and the Bulgarian lion in the center. 1955-1963 Naval Jack The old Naval Jack flag from 1949-1955 in 2:3 Ratio and without the lion. 1963-1990 Naval Jack The old naval jack but in 1:2 Ratio. 1908-1944 Minister of War The Bulgarian flag with the lion on a red background in top-left corner
Flag of Bulgaria. The flag of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: знаме на България, romanized: Zname na Bǎlgarija, [ˈznamɛ nɐ bɐɫˈɡarijɐ]) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. It was first adopted after the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), where
After Bulgaria's defeat in July 1913 at the hands of Serbia, Greece and Romania, it signed a treaty of defensive alliance with the Ottoman Empire on 19 August 1914. [45] Bulgaria was the last country to join the Central Powers, which it did in October 1915 by declaring war on Serbia. [12]
In 1885, Ghevont Alishan, an Armenian Catholic priest and historian proposed 2 Armenian flags. One of which is a horizontal tricolor flag of red-green-white, with red and green coming from the Armenian Catholic calendar, with the first Sunday of Easter being called "Red Sunday", and the second Sunday being "Green Sunday", with white being added for design reasons.
Bulgaria, however, unhappy with the resulting division of territory, soon went to war against its former allies Serbia and Greece and lost territory it had gained in the first war. The First World War (1914–1918) saw Bulgaria fighting (1915–1918) alongside Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.
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