Old Flag Of Croatia
In the middle is the coat of arms of croatia history.
Old flag of croatia. Flag and coat of arms adopted 21 december 1990. The ustaša emblem was replaced by a communist symbol a yellow bordered red star when croatia became part of postwar yugoslavia under marshal josip. Flag date use description 27 june 1990 21 december 1990. Shabby vintage flag in grunge style.
A flag horizontally divided red white blue with the national coat of arms in the middle. Download this royalty free stock illustration in seconds. Zastava hrvatske or the tricolour trobojnica is one of the state symbols of croatia. Namely after the liberation of zagreb and the introduction of the new political system someone sewed a red five pointed star on the 1916 flag.
To the old red white blue flag it additional the historical shield of croatia a checker board of red and white. Similar illustrations see all. Although it may be that the decision led to the adding of the star to the old flag. Croatia hrvatska is an ancient nation yet a very young nation state.
On land as the civil state and war flag. The national flag of croatia croatian. The flag combines the colours of the flags of the kingdom of croatia red and. Az flag independent state of croatia 1941 1945 flag 3 x 5 for a pole croatian flags 90 x 150 cm banner 3x5 ft with hole 4 8 out of 5 stars 18 19 95 19.
This flag was apparently used as such for some time to be soon stored in the zagreb town. Early flag of the republic of croatia federal unit of yugoslavia also flag of croatian political opposition in exile 1945 1990. Illustration with an old vintage flag of croatia. It consists of three equal size horizontal stripes in colours red white and blue.
Colour approximate specifications album des pavillons. The red white blue tricolor has been used as the croatian flag since 1848 and the pan slavic colors are widely related with romantic nationalism. Once a formidable kingdom under tomislav in the tenth century a naval power in the sixteenth and seventeenth and an awakening national entity in the nineteenth it had to endure a thousand years of foreign meddling subjugation incursions and outright wars before being recognized in 1992 as a distinct entity. To the old red white blue flag it added the historical shield of croatia a checkerboard of red and white.
The flag and the coat of arms have great importance for croatians. Three equal horizontal fields red on the top white in the middle and blue on the bottom coat of arms of croatia in the center of the middle field. The ustaša party emblem was also introduced in the upper hoist corner of the flag.