Flag of Hungary
The flag of Hungary was officially adopted on 1 October 1957 as the national flag.
Description and significance
The national flag of Hungary is a horizontal tricolor of red, white and green. A law of 1957 laid down a ratio of 2:3 for the merchant flag. On the other hand puts a 2000 regulation an aspect ratio of 1:2 for the flagging of government buildings fixed .. In the new Constitution of 25 April 2011, a flag is pictured in a 1:2 ratio.
Folklore tells of the three colors following meaning: red represents all the blood, which the Hungarians have lost many battles for freedom and independence. White stands for purity and cleanliness of the country. These two were the colors of the flag of the first Hungarians, who had settled in the Carpathian Basin - " Árpád - stripes". Green is the color of the Revolution from the 19th century. That the Flag of Tajikistan introduced in 1992 has the same color sequence as the flag of Hungary, is purely coincidental and not due to common roots. The choice of color Tajikistan demonstrated more cultural affinity with Iran.
History
The Hungarian tricolor is derived from the historical 1990 re-imported coat of arms of Hungary, showing a silver patriarchal cross on a green hill with a red background. The use of the colors red, white and green but goes back to the 9th century. For the first time they were used in 1608 during the reign of the Habsburg King Matthias II.
Tricolors with the colors red, white and green were in Hungary since the Napoleonic period in use - probably inspired by the French tricolor. The present form was from 1848 to 1849 and again in 1867 officially.
Due to the connected to the Austro- Hungarian Compromise of June 8, 1867 reconstruction of the Empire of Austria to the new dual monarchy of Austria - Hungary its own flag was adopted for the Kingdom of Hungary, which contained arranged in horizontal stripes across each other the Hungarian colors. The Hungarian colors were also used in the common with the Austrian part of the empire merchant flag.
With the end of Austria -Hungary 1918 - Hungary now had become independent - one took a simplified new flag to: The red-white- green tricolor with the questions in the middle of the royal coat of arms of Hungary was maintained, the left and right of it arranged angels accounted. After Hungary had lost in 1920 by the Treaty of Trianon two thirds of its territory, all official flags were lowered to half-mast in the country. This expression of national mourning remained until November 2, 1938 consist, as Hungary by the First Vienna Award was returned to the Hungarian-speaking border areas of southern Slovakia. Then, the flags were raised over the country back by a third.
1944 changed to the flag slightly by the emblem of the Holy Crown of remote ( Kossuth coat of arms ).
1949 Hungary became a People's Republic, the coat of arms previously used in the middle of the flag was replaced by a socialist embossed coat of arms. As the crest was changed again in 1956, there was a return to the simple tricolor, which was derived from the royal coat of arms of Hungary.
? Merchant flag of Austria - Hungary 1869-1918
? Flag of the Hungarian Soviet Republic of 1919
? Flag of Hungary 1920-1940
? Flag of Hungary 1940-1944, aspect ratio 2:3
? Flag of Hungary 1946 - August 19, 1949 and October 24, 1956 - September 30, 1957
? Flag of Hungary August 20, 1949 - October 23, 1956, aspect ratio 2:3
? Icon Flag of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, with cut-out coat of arms
? Flag of Hungary 1957-1989 ( the picture of this coat of arms in the flag was never officially )
? official version of the flag of Hungary from October 1, 1957
More flags of Hungary
? Land Warfare flag 3:4 aspect ratio
? Seekriegsflagge 3:4 aspect ratio