Valencia Region Flag

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Valencia Region Flag
Flag of the Land of Valencia (official) .svg
Vexillological symbol : Service flag on land?
Aspect ratio: 1: 2
Officially accepted: July 10, 1982

The flag of the Valencian Community was introduced on July 10, 1982. The flag is also used by the city of Valencia .

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Valencia Region Flag
2: 3 ? Flag variantVariation of a flag based on the same basic pattern

The flag goes back to the historical flag of Aragon and shows the four horizontal red stripes of the Senyera on golden flag cloth of the same width. On the lee side (towards the flagpole ), a gold-decorated vertical blue bar borders a narrow red strip adorned with jewels.

The aspect ratio of the flag is not fixed. Both 1: 2 and 2: 3 flags are in use.

history

The flag is said to go back to the royal banner of King Jaume I of Aragon .

In 1977/78 a flag was proposed for the self-governing region from March 11, 1978, which consisted of a Senyera with a blue stripe on the leech. Today this variant is sometimes used as a simplified version of the flag of the region (especially in small-scale reproductions on paper or on the Internet, where almost nothing of the filigree gold pattern would be recognizable anyway). In the period from 1978 to 1982, when there was a "pre-autonomy" regulation before the region was constituted as an autonomous community , the pre-autonomy authority used the Senyera without blue stripes and with the region's coat of arms in the center of the flag. The first draft of the Statute of Autonomy from 1981 again provided for the blue stripe, but without the crown, but with the coat of arms of the region. In the further legislative process for the Statute of Autonomy, the Spanish parliament then changed to the flag that is still used today.

  • Historic flag? King's Banner by Jaume I.

  • Flag was proposed but never officially adopted? Proposal from 1977/78

  • Pre-Autonomy Council, 1978 to 1980

  • Flag was proposed but never officially adopted? Proposal in the first draft of the Statute of Autonomy

The flag was the subject of political disputes for a long time after the end of the Franco dictatorship. In 1962, the Valencian writer Joan Fuster in his work Nosaltres els valencians ("We, the Valencians") argued that all Catalan-speaking areas should form a unit (the Països Catalans ). This pan-Catalan idea was particularly popular among the left-wing camp. After the left had the majority in the Pre-Autonomy Council in 1978, the Senyera was used without the blue stripe (i.e. the flag of Catalonia, only with the coat of arms of Valencia in the middle). As an alternative, a decidedly anti-Catalan regionalism developed, especially in the right-wing camp. Since the latter defended the blue stripe in the flag in particular as a sign of the diversity of Catalonia, this current was called blaverisme (from blava = "blue"). Another thesis of blaverisme is that Valencian is a separate language from Catalan .

Flags of the subordinate administrative units

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

Here are some municipal flags as an example:

Other flags of the region

Different variations of the Estelada are used by Catalan nationalists. Some are used locally in Valencia, others throughout the Catalan-speaking area.

  • Catalan nationalists

  • Nationalists in Valencia

  • Nationalists in Valencia

Web links

Commons : Flags of the Valencia Region  - Collection of images, videos and audio files