The flag is one of the state attributes of the country. Its coloring is symbolic, the images on the flag reflect the history of the people and carry the national idea.
Flag of the Republic of Hungary - appearance, symbolic meaning
The flag of Hungary is a rectangular panel, the length of which refers to the width as 3: 2. It is colored by three longitudinal stripes, the same width, which occupy the entire length of the flag, without leaving empty spaces on it.
The upper stripe is red, the middle is white, and the bottom is green.
The tricolor has a special ideological meaning: red means the blood of the country's patriots shed for its liberation, white indicates the moral and spiritual purity of the Hungarian people, and green means the color of hope, reflects the people's faith in a better future.
A flag of this kind was officially approved on 01.10.1957.
The history of the Hungarian flag. Austro-Hungarian flag
Back in the 13th century, feudal lords began to use red and white flags. But for each prince, the banner was supplemented by a family coat of arms.
The first three-color flags - red-white-green - appeared at the end of the 16th or beginning of the 17th centuries.
In 1867, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy was proclaimed. Hungary merged with Austria by a union.
Austria-Hungary used Austrian as a common state flag. The flag of Hungary functioned locally. It was approved with the same stripes - a red strip, white and green, as well as with the state emblem in the middle of the banner. At the same time, the trade flag of Austria-Hungary was created. He combined the Austrian flag on the left and the Hungarian on the right.
The Patchwork Monarchy ceased to exist in 1918. Then Hungary was proclaimed a bourgeois Republic, and on March 21, 1919 - the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Her flag was a blood-red canvas. But already on August 1, 1919, the republic became a regency, and the national colors returned - red, white and green.
From 1949 to 1957, the flag of Hungary had the same proportions and colors as modern, but the state emblem flaunted in its center.
Similar flags
The Hungarian flag is sometimes confused with the flag of Tajikistan. The latter also looks like a rectangular cloth with three longitudinal stripes, from top to bottom - red, white and green. In the center is a crown with a semicircle of 7 stars above it.
Differences between flags:
- the flag of Hungary has a ratio of length to width of 3: 2, and Tajik 2: 1;
- the bands of the Hungarian flag are the same, and the Tajik ones have a ratio of 2: 3: 2;
- in Hungarian, except for stripes, nothing is depicted, in Tajik - in the center is a crown with stars.