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Republic of North Macedonia
ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag
Proportion1:2
Adopted5 October 1995; 28 years ago (1995-10-05) (as established in the Constitution of North Macedonia)
DesignA stylized yellow sun on a red field, with eight broadening rays extending from the centre to the edge of the field.
Designed byMiroslav Grčev

The flag of North Macedonia depicts a stylized yellow sun on a red field, with eight broadening rays extending from the center to the edge of the field. It was created by Miroslav Grčev and was adopted on 5 October 1995.

The eight-rayed sun derives from the national emblem[1] and represents the "new sun of Liberty" referred to in "Denes nad Makedonija" ("Today over Macedonia").[2] The first post-Yugoslav flag of the country, adopted in 1992, known as the Kutlesh Flag, featured the Vergina Sun, a symbol that had been discovered at Aigai, the first capital and burial ground of the ancient kings of Macedon. Greece imposed a year-long economic embargo in order to persuade the country to remove it from its flag, resulting in the current design.

History

Flag of People's Republic of Macedonia (1944–1946)

People's Republic of Macedonia
between 1944 and 1946

The modern Macedonian state was proclaimed underground on 2 August 1944 by the

Anti-Fascist Assembly of the National Liberation of Macedonia (ASNOM), the state's supreme legislative and executive body until 1946. The state was originally known as Democratic Federal Macedonia[3][4] and was renamed the People's Republic of Macedonia in 1945. The ASNOM became operational in December, shortly after the German retreat. The flag was adopted during ASNOM's second plenary session
in December. The first version of the flag depicted a gold-edged five-pointed red star centred on a red field.

Flag of Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1946–1992)

The flag of the Socialist Republic of Macedonia from 1946 to 1991

Between December 1946 and September 1991, the

People's Republic of China. This flag was adopted on 31 December 1946 under Article 4 of the Constitution of the People's Republic of Macedonia.[5] It remained in use until 1992.[6]

Kutlesh flag (1992–1995)

Main article: Vergina Sun
The flag of the Republic of Macedonia between 1992 and 1995, bearing the Vergina Sun

In 1992,

ancient Macedonian city of Aigai
.

Boris Trajkovski Sports Arena in Skopje

The Vergina Sun was regarded by Greece as a symbol of continuity between ancient Macedonia and modern Greek culture, and in particular as a symbol of the Argead dynasty of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great. From the late 1970s it had also been adopted by many both in Greece and the then Socialist Republic of Macedonia to symbolise historical connections with ancient Macedonia and had been paraded in demonstrations by Greeks and ethnic Macedonians at home and abroad.[8]

The flag, the new state's constitution and its name all became the focus of a dispute between the two countries, during which Greece imposed an economic blockade on the Republic from February 1994. In July 1995, Greece lodged a request with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for exclusive trademark protection to the Vergina Sun.[9]

Greek objections also prevented the flag from being flown at the

United Nations Headquarters building in New York City. The blockade was lifted in October 1995 when an agreement was reached to change the flag, modify the constitution and resolve the naming dispute through United Nations-sponsored negotiations.[10] The change of the flag was at first not accepted by conservative Macedonians, nationalists, and Greek patriots. In the first years after the change, both flags were officially flown for a long time. Between 1995 and 1998, in the municipalities where then-opposition party VMRO-DPMNE ruled, only the old flag was flown from institution buildings. Popular opinion was divided about the merits of changing the flag. As part of the Prespa Agreement (Article 8) of 2018, which resolved the naming dispute, the government of North Macedonia committed to removing the Vergina Sun from all public spaces and from public use, including its use in flags.[11] It started removing the symbol since 12 August 2019.[12]

The Second Party (i.e. North Macedonia) shall not use again in any way and in all its forms the symbol formerly displayed on its former national flag. Within six months of the entry into force of this Agreement, the Second Party shall proceed to the removal of the symbol displayed on its former national flag from all public sites and public usages on its territory. Archaeological artefacts do not fall within the scope of this provision.

Article 8, paragraph 2 of the Prespa Agreement

Toni Deskoski, Macedonian professor of International Law, argues that the Vergina Sun is not a Macedonian symbol but a Greek symbol that is used by ethnic Macedonians in the nationalist context of Macedonian nationalism and that the ethnic Macedonians need to get rid of it.[13]

Current flag (1995–present)

In 1995, the Macedonian government appointed

Macedonian parliament.[15]
The flag represents a golden sun with eight rays on a red field.

Design

The flag ratio is 1:2 (height/width), with two colours:

System Red Yellow
RGB 206-32-40[16] 249-214-22[16]
Hexadecimal format #CE2028[16] #F9D616[16]
CMYK
 0-68-65-19 0-14-89-2
Pantone (approximate) 1795 C 115 C

Flag construction sheet.[17]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Македонски Хералд број 5
  2. ISBN 9780313344992
    .
  3. ^ "Глобус". globusmagazin.com.mk. Archived from the original on 2018-10-22. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  4. ^ "My Info Agent" (PDF). mia.com.mk. Archived from the original on 2012-03-08. Retrieved 2010-07-29.
  5. ^ Barraclough, E.M.C. and Crampton, William G. (eds). Flags of the World, p. 148. F. Warne, 1978.
  6. ^
    ISBN 9781317049364
    .
  7. ^ "Државниот грб ќе се смени, за знамето не се разговарало". Meta.mk (in Macedonian). 13 December 2014. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  8. ISBN 978-0199572908
    . From the late 1970s onwards, and as the dispute over Macedonia intensified, this motif became extremely popular, almost to the point of becoming an unofficial national crest and symbol, in both Greece and the Yugoslav Republic. Countless commercial adverts, logos, shopfronts, T-shirts, pins, medals, and posters, were carrying it, along with its official endorsement in a 100-drachma Greek coin with the head of Alexander on one face and the 'sun' on the other, on postage stamps, and on official campaign posters distributed throughout Greece and abroad.
  9. ^ "Greece petitions for int'l rights to Vergina Star" Archived 2006-06-02 at the Wayback Machine, ANA, 31 July 1995. See also WIPO registrations: 1, 2, 3.
  10. ^ Wood, Michael C., Participation of Former Yugoslav States in the United Nations and Multilateral Treaties, "Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law" Archived 2014-11-29 at the Wayback Machine, Vol. 1, 1997, p. 240.
  11. ^ "Announcement of the Inter-ministerial working group for fulfilment of the obligations stipulated in the Final Agreement for the Settlement of the Differences as Described in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 817 (1993) and 845 (1993)". www.vlada.mk. 2019-02-13. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
  12. ^ Newsroom (2019-08-12). "Βόρεια Μακεδονία: Τέλος από σήμερα στη χρήση του Ήλιου της Βεργίνας". CNN.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  13. ^ Deskoski: Vergina Sun flag is not Macedonian, we need to get rid of this Greek symbol, Republica.mk: "The Vergina Sun flag was a national flag for only three years and that was one of the biggest mistakes. Neither the Ilinden fighters nor the partisans in the National Liberation War knew that symbol. That flag is the biggest hoax of Macedonianism. We need to unanimously reject and get rid of this Greek symbol. Let the Greeks glorify their symbols."
  14. ^ "Coat of Arms to change, flag not discussed". Meta.mk. 13 December 2014.
  15. ISBN 9781538119624
    .
  16. ^ a b c d "Flag of the Republic of Macedonia | Macedonian Heraldric Society". heraldika.org.mk. 2012-07-17. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  17. ^ Construction sheet of the Flag of the Republic of Macedonia (Macedonian Heraldry Society)

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