Flag of Romania

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Flag of Romania
Flag of Romania.svg
Vexillological symbol : National flag on land and at sea?
Aspect ratio: 2: 3
Officially accepted: December 27, 1989

The flag of Romania in its current form was adopted on December 27, 1989. The color scheme is historical .

description

The national flag is a tricolor in the colors blue, yellow and red (Romanian: Albastru, galben și roșu ) with vertical stripes.

Flag of Romania (construction) .png
system blue yellow red
RGB 0-43-127 252-209-22 206-17-38
Hexadecimal format # 002B7F # FCD116 # CE1126
Pantone ® 280c 116c 186c
CMYK 100-70-0-10 0-10-95-0 0-90-80-5

The dimensions were established by Law No. 75 of August 26, 1994:

  • l = 2/3 × L
  • C = 1/3 × L

history

Flag of the People's Republic (1952-1965)
Waving Revolutionary Flag (1989)
Current national flag of Romania

A book from 1350 shows a green banner with a red scimitar as a symbol of Siluanas . A picture of the banner of Vicina (Vecina), a large port near the Danube Delta under Genoese sovereignty, comes from the same source . While the flag of Genoa shows a red cross on a white background, Vicina is said to have swapped colors.

  • Historic flag? Kingdom of Siluana around 1350

  • Historic flag? Vicina around 1350

The national colors of Romania come from the banners of Moldavia , Wallachia and Transylvania . Moldova probably adopted its red flag with the golden ox head under Bogdan I (1359-1365) and kept it under Stefan the Great (1457-1504) and his successors. In the 19th century, blue was added to the flag. Mihail Sutu (1819–1821) had a blue flag with an ox head on the front and St. George on a red background on the back. A red flag with white symbols served as the flag at sea, the ox head could also be black. In 1834 a blue commercial flag was introduced. The red jack symbolized the Ottoman suzerainty. A variant is known from 1858.

  • Historic flag? Flag of Moldova
    (14th to 19th centuries)

  • Historic flag Commercial and service flag at sea? Flag of Moldova at sea until 1830

  • Historic flag Variation of a flag based on the same basic pattern National flag of the sea? Flag of Moldova at sea until 1830

  • Historic flag Trade flag? Moldova's trade flag (1834–1861)

  • Historic flag Variation of a flag based on the same basic pattern Trade flag? Moldova's trade flag (1858)

Michael the Brave (1593–1601) led a black raven on a yellow background in Wallachia, which stood on a green tree and carried a silver and gold cross in its beak. Radu Șerban (1602–1611) used a white flag with an eagle with a cross in its beak. The flag of Vlad Vintilă de la Slatina (1532-1535) showed the raven with a cross in its beak on a mountain on a red background.

Historic flag? Flag of Radu Șerban
Decree on the Romanian flag of December 27, 1989 in the Monitorul Oficial

The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire allowed the Prince of Wallachia to combine the colors in one flag for the first time in 1834. The order and arrangement of the strips was varied several times. In 1848 the current tricolor was created from it, but it was not until the unification of Wallachia and Moldova in 1859 that it received official status. In 1862 the country was named Romania.

Several times in a row, the Romanian governments changed the Romanian coat of arms in the center of the flag. In communist Romania, on January 8, 1948, the flag received a new coat of arms with three blast furnaces and a tractor in a wheat wreath. This was in turn replaced on April 13th by a coat of arms with forests, mountains and an oil derrick. In 1952 a red star was added to the coat of arms and in 1965 the lettering of the written banner was changed.

During the 1989 revolution, many flags with the communist symbol cut out of them could be seen on the protest marches. The current flag was ordered by decree on December 27, 1989 by the Council of the Front for National Salvation . The transitional government decided not to add a coat of arms to the new flag and thus leaned on the emblems of the Kingdom of Romania (1881-1947). Since 1991 the flag has been anchored in Article 12 of the Romanian Constitution .

Others

The flag of Romania is very similar to the national flag of the ethnically and culturally closely connected neighboring state of Moldova . The latter uses a coat of arms in the center of the flag and (based on the Russian model) a different aspect ratio. The Chad has a flag , differing only in the color of the Romania. Also Andorra performs a blue-yellow-red tricolor with his coat of arms in the center. The first blue-white-red tricolor, based on the French tricolor, was used in 1797 by the Parthenopean Republic (on the territory of the Kingdom of Naples ).

Web links

Commons : Flag of Romania  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Siluana Flags of the World
  2. ↑ Vecina Flags of the World
  3. ^ A b Smith, Neubecker: Coats of arms and flags of all nations . Munich 1981, ISBN 3-87045-183-1
  4. ^ Romania Flags of the World
  5. ↑ Constituția României 2003 ( Wikisource )