Flag of the Czech Republic

The flag of the Czech Republic is the same as the flag of the former Czechoslovakia. Upon the dissolution of Czechoslovakia the Czech Republic kept the Czechoslovak flag while the Slovak Republic adopted its own flag (see Velvet Divorce).

Flag of Bohemia, and CSR 1918–20

The flag contains red and white colors derived from the ancient Czech coat of arms (silver lion on the red field); because the flag was almost identical with Polish and had the same colors as Austrian flag, a blue wedge was added (1920). However, the version without the wedge is still used as the flag of Bohemia.

The author of the flag is somewhat disputed but most vexillologists agree on Jaroslav Kursa (1875 – 1950), an archivist of the Department of Home Affairs, as the original author of the present flag appearance. The flag has been officially approved by the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia (CSR) on 30 March 1920. Since then, the flag has been used continuously, excluding the World War II occupation years.

National flags	National coats of arms
Flags of sovereign states	Coats of arms of sovereign states
Flags of dependent territories Flags of unrecognized states	Coats of arms of dependent territories Coats of arms of unrecognized states

External links

• History of the Czech and Czechoslovak flag (in Czech)
• Czech Republic at Flags of the World

The content of this page is retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Czech_Republic under GFDL