Flag of the Czech Republic
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| Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg | |
| Use | National flag and civil and state ensign. Image:FIAV 111110.svg |
| Proportion | 2:3 |
| Adopted | 30 March 1920 |
| Design | Two equal horizontal bands of white (top) and red with a blue isosceles triangle based on the hoist side. (Note that the wedge reaches exactly to the half ot the length – it's a common mistake to draw it shorter.) |
The flag of the Czech Republic is the same as the flag of the former Czechoslovakia. Upon the dissolution of Czechoslovakia the Czech Republic kept the Czechoslovak flag while the Slovak Republic adopted its own flag.
The author of the flag is somewhat disputed but most vexillologists agree [1] on Jaroslav Kursa (1875–1950), an archivist of the Department of Home Affairs, as the original author of the present flag appearance. The flag contains red and white colors derived from the ancient Coat of arms of Bohemia; because the flag was almost identical with the Polish flag and had the same colors as the Austrian flag, a blue wedge was added in 1920. (The version without the wedge is identical to the flag of Bohemia.) The blazon is per pall fesswise Argent, Azure, and Gules.
The flag has been officially approved by the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (ČSR) on 30 March 1920. Since then, the flag has been used continuously, excluding the World War II occupation years.[2] During the Prague Spring (1968) and the Velvet Revolution (1989) the flag served as the dominant symbol of national unity.
During the 1992 negotiations about the details of dissolution of Czechoslovakia, on demand by several Slovak politicians, a clause forbidding use of state symbols of Czechoslovakia by successor states was inserted into the Law about dissolution of ČSFR. Eventually, after a search for new symbology the Czech Republic decided to keep the flag with an altered meaning, and this was accepted by prominent Slovak vexiologists.
[edit] Literature
- Zbyšek Svoboda, Pavel Fojtík: brochure Naše vlajka. Vznik a vývoj české vlajky (Our Flag. Origin and evolution of the Czech flag), Libea, 2005, ISBN 80-239-5862-3.
- Petr Exner, Pavel Fojtík, Zbyšek Svoboda: brochure Vlajky, prapory a jejich používání (Flags, banners and their use), Libea, 2004, ISBN 80-239-2873-2.
[edit] References
- ^ Czech society of vexicologists about the origin of the Czechoslovak state flag (MS Word) (Czech). Retrieved on 2007-12-10.
- ^ Government of the Czech Republic The Czech Republic's national flag. Retrieved August 13, 2007.
[edit] External links
- History of the Czech and Czechoslovak flag (in Czech)
- Czech Republic at Flags of the World
- The law defining state symbols of the Czech Republicbs:Zastava Češke
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