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Bulgaria
UseNational flag and civil ensign
Proportion3:5
Adopted1879 (original version)
1991 (current version)
DesignA horizontal tricolour of white (whiteness not less than 80%), green (Pantone 17-5936 ТС) and red (Pantone 18-1664 ТС).

The flag of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: знаме на България, zname na Balgariya) is a tricolour consisting of three equal-sized horizontal bands of (from top to bottom) white, green, and red. After the liberational Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), 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.[1]

In later history, the former emblem on the left side of the white stripe was removed after 1990: it contained a lion rampant within a wreath of wheat ears below a red five-pointed star and above a ribbon bearing the years 681 (the year the first Bulgarian state was established) and 1944 (the year when the Bulgarian Communist Party took power).

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.[2]

According to the Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria, promulgated on April 24, 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, regarded opposite the flag.

(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.[3]


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Historical Flags

  • Colours of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps in the Liberation War given by the Bulgarian emigrants, 1877
    Colours of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps in the Liberation War given by the Bulgarian emigrants, 1877
  • The emblem of Bulgaria during the Communist era (type 1948–1971), put on the National flag till 1991
    The emblem of Bulgaria during the Communist era (type 1948–1971), put on the National flag till 1991

See also

References

  1. ^ "Tarnovo Constitution of 1879" (in Bulgarian). Juridical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
  2. ^ "Constitution of the Republic of Bulgaria". National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
  3. ^ "Law for the State Seal and National Flag of the Republic of Bulgaria". National Assembly of the Republic of Bulgaria. Retrieved 2007-09-15.


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