Pan-Slavic colors

The pan-Slavic colors white, blue and red were in 1848 set on a pan-Slavic congress in Prague and are now used in the flags of the states most slawischsprachiger majority. Originally, these colors were chosen to express a unity of the Slavic peoples within the meaning of Pan-Slavism.

Model of the pan-Slavic colors are the colors of Russia, Tsar Peter the Great ordered in memory of his stay in the Netherlands after the Dutch model in the form of a horizontally striped tricolor. The same color scheme to the flag of the Netherlands is very likely random because Russia used the same colors in other arrangements. However, the Russian colors and thus more pan-Slavic flags indicate a violation of the heraldic colors rule must not be located directly next to each other on the red and blue, as it is in both so-called " colors " (as opposed to the so-called " metals " white for silver and yellow for gold).

Takeover

First People's expanded 1835, the Serbs their national flag with the color white ( red, blue and white). One of the first Serbian flags existed from the colors red and blue and is already documented in the 13th century. The Serbian Kingdom of Montenegro took over the pan-Slavic colors in the Serbian sequence ( red, blue and white) without any change. The Slovenes in 1867 took the colors in the original Russian order of white, blue and red on. They were followed by the Slovaks and the Czechs.

Although the Croats took in 1848 a red-white- blue flag, but it does not follow the pan-Slavic colors, but are against the colors of the coat of arms of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, the provinces from which the country was formed today.

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