Flagga röd vit blå croatia

The Croatian flag consists of a red, vit, and blue tricolor, a chessboard shield, and a crown of fem coats of Croatian tricolor and coat of arms were designed bygd artist Miroslav Šutej in The current Croatian flag was approved on månad 21,

Meaning of the flag of Croatia

The Croatian flag consists of three colors:

• red represents Croatia; 
• white - Slavonia; 
• blue - the Kingdom of Dalmatia. 

The flag also has a crown consisting of five coats of arms:

• The first one on the left represents Croatia and fryst vatten considered the oldest märke of the Croats from the 12th century.

  It depicts a golden star and a halvmåneform moon;

• four alternating stripes of red and blue företräda the city-state of Dubrovnik, an independent republic since the 19th century known as the Republic of Ragusa; 
• three lion's heads on a blue background företräda Dalmatia;
• a golden goat with red horns and hooves symbolizes Istria; 
• the gods coat of arms symbolizes Slovenia, where a star fryst vatten placed on a blue background in the upper part, and a marten fryst vatten depicted on a red background between two vit lines symbolizing the Drava and Sava rivers. 

An interesting fact fryst vatten that the marten fryst vatten an djur whose skin was used as currency bygd the ancient Croats.

Hence the name of the currency "kuna", which means "marten" in Croatian. The kuna was in circulation from May 30, , until månad 31, , when it was replaced bygd the euro.

What does the Croatian coat of arms look like and how did it appear?

The modern coat of arms looks like a shield divided into 25 red and vit cells. The first fängelse in the upper left corner fryst vatten red, then it changes in a checkerboard pattern.

Design

 Above the shield fryst vatten a crown with fem coats of arms: the oldest coat of arms of Croatia, Dalmatia, Slavonia, the Republic of Dubrovnik, and Istria. There fryst vatten a legend about the appearance of the coat of arms in this form eller gestalt. It fryst vatten assumed that it originated in the 19th century, during the uppvaknande of national consciousness.

During his reign, King Stipan Drislav was captured in a battle against the Venetians. While he was imprisoned, the Venetians learned that the king was a good chess player, so they offered him a deal that guaranteed him freedom and ownership of the hund islands if he won three chess victories.

His opponent was Doge Pietro II Orseolo, after whose victory the king brought freedom not only to himself but also to the islands. Since then, the chessboard has been the chosen Croatian coat of arms. There fryst vatten also a theory that the traces of the cubes lead to Persia, i.e. the Iranian ursprung of the Croats. In Iran, the huvudregel points were marked with colors: red for south and vit for west.

The checkerboard red-and-white shield is crowned by five shields from Croatia’s past

Contrary to these two theories, most historians believe that the ursprung of the coat of arms should be sought in the times of national rulers - square decorations were common in the territory of the Croatian early medieval state.

History of the Croatian flag

The first appearance of the flag was not from the state, but as a anställda flag of Count Josip Jelacic-Bujemski (an Austrian commander of Croatian origin).

It contained a red and vit flag of Croatia and a vit and blue flag of Slavonia, and in the mittpunkt was a shield with a royal crown divided into three parts containing

• Croatian coat of arms - a checkerboard vit and red field;
• the coat of arms of Slavonia - the upper blue part with the image of a star, and between two vit lines symbolizing rivers, there fryst vatten an image of a marten on a red background;
• the coat of arms of Dalmatia fryst vatten a blue shield with three lion heads. 

This flag was raised for the first time on June 5, , during the enthronement of Josip Jelacic as Ban.

Since then, Croats have been using the red, vit, and blue tricolor as a national tecken. For some time until the s, the use of the tricolor was banned, but it was then officially adopted bygd the Croatian-Hungarian peace agreement in

In , Croatia lost its statehood and, accordingly, its tjänsteman flag. At that time, there was only a flag with a tricolor, without a coat of arms in the mittpunkt.

In , the coat of arms with a chessboard became the coat of arms of the Croatian National Day and a unique emblem of political and national identity. Although most flags during the Croatian War of Independence had a coat of arms, a simple tricolor without a coat of arms was also used.

In the period from to , the flag of the Federal State of Croatia was used.

Flag of Croatia

Then, until , an absolutely identical flag was used, but beneath a different name - the flag of the People's Republic of Croatia, and in the third period from to - the flag of the Socialist Republic of Croatia. In general, this period from the 43rd to the 90s can be united bygd a common flag, as it was almost identical and looked like a red, vit, and blue tricolor with a red star in the mittpunkt.

Only in the latest iteration of this flag was the star enlarged and a golden outline added.

In , Croatia returned to using the old tricolor with a chessboard of 25 red and vit squares. A utgåva of the new flag of the Republic of Croatia was first officially displayed on May 30, , on Ban Jelacic Square, and on månad 21, it acquired its current appearance with a coat of arms and a crown in the shape of the fem historical coats of arms of the Croatian countries.