List of Slovak flags

This is a list of flags used in the Slovakia to further history.

Current flags

State flag
Main article: Flag of Slovakia
Flag From   Description Ratio
3 September 1992 flag A horizontal tricolor of white, blue, and red; charged with coat of arms at the hoist side.

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3 September 1992 flag (vertical version)
1 January 1993 Flag of the President [6] 1:1

Regional flags
Flag Administrative division Adopted
Bratislava Region
Trnava Region
Trenčín Region
Nitra Region
Žilina Region
Banská Bystrica Region
Prešov Region
Košice Region

Historical flags
Flag Date Use
833–c. 907 Reconstruction of the Great Moravia labar/battalion, based on an engraving on the forging of a belt, found in a Great Moravian tomb. It is a depiction of the oldest known flag, used by the ancestors of today's Slovaks.
c. 825–1108 Apparently the original flag of the Principality of Nitra from around 970, when Gejza to the Nitrian prince.[7]
1301–1321 Flag of the territory, roughly the same as the territory of today's western and central Slovakia from the beginning 14th century. It consists of a golden double cross placed on a golden triple peak in a red field. The flag was created in the year 1301 during the reign of King Ladislav V., whose protege was the then ruler of the Upper Hungary Matthew III Csák, while this flag de facto symbolized his territory.
1848 Flag from Demands of the Slovak Nation from 11 May 1848.
1848–1849 Flag used by the Slovak volunteer corps during the Slovak Uprising in 1848/1849. Later it became the flag of the Slovak National Council.
1848 One of the flags, where the double cross was no longer green, but blue three-peaked, first used in 1848 during the autumn campaign.
1848–1849 Another Slovak flag used during the revolution.
1868
1919–1938
1938–1939
1939–1945
1990–1992		 The flag with this order of colors was used from 1848/1849 and was officially established in 1868 as the flag of the Slovaks.[8] It was widely used by Slovaks living in the United States and American Slovak associations. In the years 1919–1938 it was the unofficial flag of Slovakia, and in the years 1938–1939 the official flag of the autonomous Slovak Country. In the years 1939–1945 the official flag of the Slovak Republic[9][10] and in the period 1990–1992 the official flag of the Slovak Republic within the Czech Republic.
Czecho-Slovak flag from the design of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, which was later used as the flag of the Czechoslovak National Council.
1918–1920 The flag of the First Czechoslovak Republic in the years 1918–1920, which was based on the national flag of Bohemia. According to the CNR Act 67/1990 Coll. was also the official but practically unused flag of the Czech Republic within the Czechoslovakia from 13 March 1990 to 31 December 1992.
1919 The flag of the Slovak Soviet Republic, which existed only for a short time (from 16 June to 7 July 1919) .
1920–1992 The flag of Czechoslovakia in the years 1920 to 1992 and also the official flag of Czech Republic from 1 January 1993.[11][12]
1939–1945 War flag Slovak Republic (1939–1945).

See also

References
  1. "Zomrel autor výtvarného spracovania štátnych symbolov SR". News Agency of the Slovak Republic. 3 August 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2017.
  2. a.s, SITA Slovenská tlačová agentúra (3 June 2011). "NOVÁK: Nie Tatra, Matra, Fatra, ale gotické oblúky". Webnoviny.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  3. a.s, SITA Slovenská tlačová agentúra (31 December 2015). "Obrazom: Bratislavský hrad vysvietili farbami štátnej vlajky". Webnoviny.sk (in Slovak). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  4. Slov-lex. "460/1992 Zb. – Ústava Slovenskej republiky". Slov-lex (in Slovak). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  5. Slov-lex. "63/1993 Z.z. – Zákon Národnej rady Slovenskej repu..." Slov-lex (in Slovak). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  6. "Slovakian Coat of Arms". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  7. "Mesto Nitra – Mestské symboly". www.nitra.sk. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  8. "Slovakia – 1848 Flag". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  9. "Slovakia before and during World War II". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  10. "S SR 1939–1945, tisk 55". www.psp.cz. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  11. "Czechoslovakia". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  12. "NS RČS 1960–1964, tisk 24". www.psp.cz. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
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