Flag of North Macedonia

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Flag of North Macedonia
Flag of North Macedonia.svg
Vexillological symbol : National flag on land?
Aspect ratio: 1: 2
Officially accepted: 5th October 1995

The current flag of North Macedonia was adopted in 1995 after neighboring Greece protested against the use of the star of Vergina in the 1992 flag. Greece had claimed exclusive, international rights for the star of Vergina from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Appearance

Construction template

The flag shows a yellow sun on a red background, the eight rays of which extend to the edge of the flag. It represents the "sun of freedom" mentioned in the North Macedonian hymn .

Colours

system red yellow
RGB 216-33-38 248-233-46
Hexadecimal color definition # D82126 # F8E92E

history

Old and new national flag

Red was the national color of North Macedonia even before the socialist era. During the Ilinden uprising in 1903, insurgents hoisted a red flag in the Republic of Kruševo . It is said to be the origin of the red North Macedonian flag.

The flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia was introduced in 1944 and officially adopted in 1946. Before that, it was already in use by Macedonian partisans. It was a simple flag, with a red background color. A five-pointed red star was depicted on it in the upper left. In order to separate it in color from the red background, it was outlined in yellow. The size of the star could vary, but was mostly smaller than the flags of the other republics. Only when the flags of the constituent republics were shown together did it happen that the star of Macedonia was the same size. Sometimes the star was mistakenly moved to the center of the flag.

With independence in 1992, the Republic of Macedonia adopted a red flag with the star of Vergina, or the sun of Vergina . The ancient 16-pointed symbol was found during excavations in the Greek part of the Macedonia region . Therefore, Greece claimed the symbol, just as it turned against the state designation "Macedonia". On a blue background, the symbol is used in the unofficial flag of the Greek Macedonia . The choice of flag was based on the intervention of the nationalist diaspora overseas and sparked an unprecedented propaganda battle.

The current flag was designed by the architecture professor Miroslav Grčev .

More flags of North Macedonia

North Macedonia's Opštini (municipalities) have their own flags. Here are some examples:

See also

literature

  • Goran Cobanov: Recent developments in the “flag dispute ” in Macedonia . In: Eastern European Law. Questions about legal developments in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries . 54th vol., No. 1-2, 2008, pp. 81-107.

Web links

Commons : Flags of North Macedonia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Floudas, Demetrius Andreas; "Pardon? A Name for a Conflict? FYROM's Dispute with Greece Revisited". (PDF; 281 kB) in: Kourvetaris et al (eds.), The New Balkans , East European Monographs: Columbia University Press, 2002, p. 85, Retrieved August 13, 2011 .
  2. ^ A b Flags of the World - Republic of Macedonia (Socialist Yugoslavia)
  3. ↑ Flags of the World - Macedonia (Greece)
  4. ↑ Christophe Chiclet: Pourquoi la Grèce a peur de la Macédoine . In: Lory Chiclet (ed.): La République de Macédoine . S. 93-102 .
  5. ↑ Flags of the World - Macedonia (Eng.)
  6. ↑ [1]