Flag of Bulgaria

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Republic of Bulgaria
tricolour
of white, green and red.
Designed byStiliana Parashkevova (original version)

The flag of Bulgaria (

tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. The flag was first adopted after the 1877–1878 Russo-Turkish War, when Bulgaria gained de facto independence. The national flag at times was charged with the state emblem, especially during the communist era. The current flag was re-established with the 1991 Constitution of Bulgaria
and was confirmed in a 1998 law.

History

First Bulgarian Empire

In 866,

horse tail as a banner to adopting the Holy Cross.[2]

Later illuminated versions of the chronicles of

Drastar under a white flag with a crescent and a six-pointed star
. Any pictorial representations of flags in the manuscripts mentioned above, regardless of the faction or time depicted, conform strongly to the overall illustration style used in each manuscript. In addition, none of those manuscripts dates to the time of the First Bulgarian Empire. The historicity of those flags is thus impossible to verify.

Second Bulgarian Empire

Depictions of Bulgarian flags can be seen on various

, which in the same maps are largely consistent.

Third Bulgarian state

After the liberation of Bulgaria following the Russo-Turkish War in 1878, the flag was described in the Tarnovo Constitution of 1879 as follows:

Art. 23. The Bulgarian people's flag is three-coloured and consists of white, green and red colours, placed horizontally.[10]

After the establishment of the

coup d'état of 1944 which had ended the monarchy. In 1971, the emblem (and thus the flag) was slightly modified - the ribbon was parted in two, bearing the years 681 and 1944, the former being the year of the establishment of the First Bulgarian Empire
.

After the fall of Communism in 1990, the then-enforced Zhivkov Constitution was amended so the flag could be reverted to the pre-Communist era.[11] The new Constitution of Bulgaria, adopted in 1991, describes the Bulgarian flag as follows:

Art. 166. The flag of the Republic of Bulgaria shall be a tricolour: white, green and red from top, placed horizontally.[12]

A popular version of the flag, which has no official status, is also commonly known. It has the full coat of arms on the left of the flag, placed across the white and green fields only.[13]

Flag law

According to the Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria, promulgated on 24 April 1998:

Art. 15. (1) The national flag of the Republic of Bulgaria is a national symbol which expresses the independence and sovereignty of the Bulgarian state.

(2) The national flag of the Republic of Bulgaria is tricolour: white, green and red fields, placed horizontally from the top downwards. On fixing the national flag in a vertical situation of the carrying body the colours shall be arranged from left to right - white, green, red.

(3) The national flag is of a rectangular shape. The fields of the individual colours shall be equal in size and shall be situated along the horizontal of the rectangular.[14]

Colors

Appendix 2 to the Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria specifies the required colors when the flag is sewn from textiles or printed on paper:[15]

The law does not specify what color values should be used in digital renderings of the flag. The website of the Bulgarian civil service recommends the following approximate colors (note that the decimal RGB values are inconsistent with the hexadecimal "web-safe" values):[16]

Flag colors
Proportions and colours of the flag in Pantone
White Green Red Green (Fabric) Red (Fabric)
Pantone textile[17] Whiteness greater than 80% 17-5936 TCX[18] 18-1664 TCX[19]
Pantone[17] Whiteness greater than 80% 347 U 032 U
RGB
Red = 255
Green = 255
Blue = 255
Hex = #FFFFFF
Red = 0
Green = 128
Blue = 0
Hex = #009900[17]
Red = 200
Green = 0
Blue = 0
Hex = #CC0000[17]
Red = 0
Green = 150
Blue = 110
Hex = #00966E
Red = 214
Green = 38
Blue = 18
Hex = #D62612
CMYK
Cyan = 0%
Magenta = 0%
Yellow = 0%
Black = 0%
Cyan = 100%
Magenta = 0%
Yellow = 100%
Black = 0%
Cyan = 0%
Magenta = 100%
Yellow = 0%
Black = 0%
Cyan = 100%
Magenta = 0%
Yellow = 26.67%
Black = 41.18%
Cyan = 0%
Magenta = 82.24%
Yellow = 91.59%
Black = 16.18%

Gallery

Flags of the Second Bulgarian Empire

Flags of the modern Bulgarian state

See also

References

  1. ^ Whitney Smith. "Flag of Bulgaria". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  2. ^ "The Responses of Pope Nicholas I to the Questions of the Bulgars A.D. 866 (Letter 99)". Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies.
  3. ^ "Madrid Skylitzes" (PDF) (in Ancient Greek). World Digital Library. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  4. ^ a b "Vatican copy of the Manasses Chronicle" (in Church Slavic). Vatican Library. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  5. ^ "Map Guillem Soler, c. 1380". French National Library. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  6. ^ "Map of Battista Beccario, 1426". Bavarian State Library. Retrieved 2019-09-23.
  7. ^ "Map by Angelino Dalorto, c. 1325". Retrieved 2019-10-25.
  8. ^ "Map by Pietro Vesconte, c.1325". Vatican Library. Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  9. ^ "Map by the Pizzigani brothers, c.1367". Retrieved 2019-06-30.
  10. ^ "Tarnovo Constitution of 1879" (in Bulgarian). Juridical Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2007-09-11. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
  11. ^ "Understanding the Bulgarian Flag". Information Bulgaria. Retrieved 2017-12-08.
  12. ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria". National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
  13. ^ Unofficial flag Archived 2014-04-08 at the Wayback Machine, taken from 2013 Bulgaria Summer Protests, Darik News, 26 June 2013, and unofficial flag, taken from Protests in Bulgaria: the unnoticed uprising, TheConversation.com, 24 Jun 2013. Both retrieved 27 Jun 2013.
  14. ^ "Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria". National Assembly of the Republic. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
  15. ^ "Lex.bg - Закони, правилници, конституция, кодекси, държавен вестник, правилници по прилагане".
  16. ^ https://identity.egov.bg/wps/portal/identity/government-symbols/flag/flag[bare URL]
  17. ^ a b c d Знаме. "Институционална идентичност на българската дъжавна администрачия". identity.egov.bg. Archived from the original on January 22, 2020. Retrieved 17 November 2019.
  18. ^ PANTONE. "PANTONE 17-5936 TCX Simply Green - Find a Pantone Color - Quick Online Color Tool". Pantone.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.
  19. ^ PANTONE. "PANTONE 18-1664 TCX Fiery Red - Find a Pantone Color - Quick Online Color Tool". Pantone.com. Retrieved 12 December 2017.

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