Flag of Belgium

The flag of Belgium is a tricolor flag in the colors black, yellow and red

Shaping

The colors of the Duchy of Brabant were transferred to the Belgian flag, the vertical arrangement of the strips is based on the flag of France. The similar color scheme with the black-red- gold flag of Germany is purely coincidental.

The colors are specified by law in detail. Album of the pavilion (see literature ) indicates approximately the following Pantone and CMYK color values ​​.

The unusual aspect ratio of 13:15 is of unknown origin. They may be stirred by a decree of the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the 19th century since the stated abroad, the official size of 2.60 mx 3.00 m with flag. In some buildings the government flags are hoisted at this scale, but the largest part of the official Belgian authorities and private Belgian people used flags in a 2:3 ratio.

History and historical flags

The flag was adopted on January 23, 1831, shortly after Belgium had gained its independence from the Netherlands in the Revolution of 1830. In revolt against the Dutch, the colors play an important role as a reminder of the unsuccessful struggle for independence in 1789 in the Austrian Netherlands. At that time, the Belgians used the colors in different military colors. The proclaimed on January 11, 1790 United Belgian States conducted a horizontal tricolor in the order of red, black and yellow. That same year, the Brabant revolution was put down by Austrian troops.

The black-yellow- red tricolor was hoisted for the first time by Édouard Ducpétiaux and Lucien Jotrand on August 26, 1830 at the Town Hall of Brussels. The official recognition by the Provisional Government in January it. Here, the vertical arrangement was decided.

The International Congo Society, the Congo Free State and later Belgian Congo used a flag with a five-pointed yellow star on a blue background. The flag was modeled on the present flag of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

2:3? Tricolor of 1830 in horizontal arrangement

? Congo Free State and Belgian Congo, 1877-1960

Flags of the Regions and Communities

Flanders and the Flemish Community

Wallonia and the French Community of Belgium

German speaking Community of Belgium

Flags of the Provinces

Antwerp, 1928-1997

Flemish Brabant

Province of Hainaut

Limburg

Liege

Luxembourg

Namur

East Flanders

Walloon Brabant

West Flanders

See also: List of flags in the province of Liege

More flags of Belgium

The Belgian tricolor with the black lion was 1936-1940 the Seekriegsflagge. After the founding of the Navy in 1949 a new flag was soon introduced and the Lion Flag used only as a service flag.

The Seekriegsflagge was introduced on 23 February 1950. The saltire is from the Burgundy cross, which was common in Belgian flags in front of the 19th century.

? Seekriegsflagge

1:1 Gösch the Navy

Mast pennant of the Navy

Flag of the Air Force

Standard of the King