flag - one of the state attributes of the country.Its symbolic colors, the image on the flag reflect the history of the people and carry a national idea.
Flag of the Republic of Hungary - appearance, symbolic value
Flag of Hungary - is a rectangular cloth, the length of which refers to the width of 3: 2.Colored with three longitudinal strips of identical width which occupy the entire length of the flag without leaving voids therein.
upper band - red, medium - white, and the bottom - green.
Tricolor has a particular ideological meaning: red means the blood of patriots of the country, shed for her release, White says about the moral and spiritual purity of the Hungarian people, and green - the color of hope, reflects the people's faith in a better future.
flag of this type has been approved 01.10.1957 years.
History of the Hungarian flag.Austro-Hungarian flag
in the XIII century feudal Hungarians began to use red-white flags.But each prince banner complemented the coat of arms.
first tricolor flag - red, white and green - appeared in the late XVI or early XVII century.
In 1867 was proclaimed the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.Hungary has teamed up with Austria Unia.
Austria-Hungary as the general use of the national flag of Austria.Flag of Hungary operated at the local level.It was approved with the same stripes - red stripe, white and green, as well as with the state coat of arms in the middle of the flag.At the same time the flag was created by trading of Austro-Hungary.It combines the Austrian flag on the left and the right Hungarian.
"Patchwork monarchy" has ceased to exist in 1918, then Hungary proclaimed the bourgeois republic, and March 21, 1919 - the Hungarian Soviet Republic.Its flag was the blood-red cloth.But by August 1, 1919 the republic became the regency and returned to the flag of the national colors - red, white and green.
Since 1949 to 1957 flag of Hungary had the same proportions and coloring, as a modern, but at its center flaunted the national emblem.
Similar flags
Hungarian flag is sometimes confused with the flag of Tajikistan.The latter also appears as a rectangular panel with three longitudinal stripes, from top to bottom - red, white and green.In the center is a crown with a half-circle of seven stars above it.
differences between the flags:
- flag of Hungary has a ratio of length to width ratio of 3: 2, and Tajik 2: 1;
- Hungarian band banner of the same, and the Tajik have a ratio of 2: 3: 2;
- Hungarian except lanes, not shown anything in the Tajik - in the center of the crown with stars.
