Flag of Andalusia

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Flag of Andalusia
Flag of Andalucía.svg
Vexillological symbol : Civil flag and official flag on land?
Aspect ratio: 2: 3
Officially accepted: December 30, 1981
Flag of Andalusia with the flags of Europe and Spain

The flag of Andalusia was adopted by Law 6/81 on December 30, 1981. It was published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado on January 9, 1982.

description

The flag of Andalusia is a green, white and green flag cloth that is horizontally striped in equal widths. The green is by definition a very dark Umayyad green . The coat of arms of Andalusia is inserted in the middle . In addition to its historical significance, green also stands for hope and white for peace, as it is called in the hymn of Andalusia .

history

Green and white flags have been a tradition in Andalusia since the Middle Ages. In the Battle of Alarcos (1195), the Andalusian volunteers fought under a green banner. To celebrate their victory over Castile , it was placed on the minaret of the mosque of Seville , along with the white Almohad banner . The Emirate of Granada , the last Muslim empire in Spain, used a red banner, but most of the banners captured by the Castilians in 1483 were green and white.

In 1521 the people of Seville rebelled over a food shortage. They used a green banner, which gave the uprising the name the Green Banner Riots . In 1642 the Duke of Medina Sidonia tried to found an independent kingdom from Spain under a green and white flag.

Around 1900 a federal revolution in Casares used a green and white flag. In 1918 the Ronda Federal Assembly chose the green, white and green flag as the symbol of Andalusia. She was proposed by Blas Infante (1885–1936), the founder of Andalusian nationalism, which came from Casares. White should be reminiscent of the Almohads and green of the Umayyads. The two green stripes also stood for the Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers . The Guadiana does not flow through what is now Andalusia, but at that time the borders were not precisely defined and Badajoz and Murcia were also sometimes included.

Flags of the subordinate administrative units

The provinces of Andalusia as well as the counties ( Comarques ) and municipalities have their own flags.

Political flags

More flags of Andalusia

A flag without a coat of arms is also used as a civil flag .

From 1976 to 1977 autonomy for Eastern Andalusia was under discussion, but this was never implemented. A flag had already been designed for this.

  • Variation of a flag based on the same basic pattern Civic flag? Variant as a civil flag.

  • Flag was proposed but never officially adopted? Eastern Andalusia, 1976 to 1977

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Flags of the World - Historical Flags (Andalusia, Spain)
  2. ^ Flags of the World - Eastern Andalusia Proposal 1976-1977

Web links

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