Tricolour (flag)

Tricolor is a Germanized French- Latin term from the flag of customer (French tri, three, ' latin color, color ') and refers to a tricolor flag of three equally wide vertical or horizontal stripes. In German-speaking countries so that the flag of France (La Tricolore ) is usually meant.

Examples

The following outstanding examples of historical importance are sorted by age:

• Netherlands: The oldest tricolor is the flag of the Netherlands, which dates back to the 16th century and founded a liberal tradition. It is based on the republican tricolor, which was introduced in 1579 in the fight for freedom against Spain under the leadership of Prince William of Orange -Nassau in orange - white - blue. According to him, one called the flag Prinsenvlag (German, Prince's Flag '). In 1630, the Orange was (in Dutch Oranje = Orange ') exchanged for red, but she is until today Prinsenvlag.

• Luxembourg: The flag of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is down to a lighter shade in blue, practically identical with the Dutch flag. Luxembourg has even separated in 1830 by the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, but - unlike Belgium - the flag then not changed.

• France: The most famous of all tricolors applies the French, with the colors blue, white and red (often called " Le Bleu - Blanc- Rouge ") is created during the French Revolution, when supposedly the colors of Paris, blue and red, were joined together with the royal white, so symbolizing the tricolor originally the merger between king and people at the stage of constitutional monarchy. Another version assumes that the colors of the Kings, ( Royal ) Blue / White, the (blood) red of revolution joined them, symbolized by the red cap of the Jacobins and the sans-culottes.

• Italy: The Italian tricolor was inspired by the French flag brought to Italy by Napoleon. Your first version of which dates from 1797 and was already Transpadane flag for the Republic.

• Germany: The German national flag black-red- gold is also a tricolor. Served as models the colors of the uniform of the Lützow'schen Freikorps, in the post-Napoleonic period, it was the distinctive mark of the revolutionary anti- monarchist bourgeoisie, which they - Germanized - referred to as " three-color ". : - At that time strictly forbidden - flag shown at the Hambach Festival in 1832 and carried, it was also a symbol against the particularism and thus for the longed- German unit for the first time in public that was " ... Up, up, free citizens, to the castle, the castle, it blows the Germans colors ... " The flag of the North German Confederation and the German Empire was created by merging the colors of Prussia ( black and white ) and the Hanseatic cities (white - red).

• Other examples are: