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I am afraid I cannot find a PNG of the Bulgarian flag :( Please excuse me for this.
webkid 13:00 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Section about former flag with coat of arms is describing a flag with communistic coat of arms, but we can see picture with different crest. Could someone send the picture of the communistic flag as well -- Obradović Goran (talk 00:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Green replacing Blue
According to an old edition of Phillip's Flags of the world, the purpose for Bulgaria adopting Green in place of Blue was that the white/blue/red vertical sequence was already in use as regional flags for Slovenes and Slovaks (although the two were yet to become independent states). Is there any truth in this? Evlekis 22 June 2006
[edit] Bulgarian flags 1878 and 1946
The pictures Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1878-1944).svg and Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1946-1967).svg are incorrect. The first one is Bulgarian WAR flag. The secong is nonsense there isn't such bulgarian coat. After liberation in 1878 of Bulgaria until 1946 the flag was like current (without coat). In first bulgarian constitution is writed clearly "Българското народно знаме е трицвѣтно и състои отъ бѣлъ, зеленъ и червенъ цвѣтове, поставени хоризонтално" - "Bulgarian national flag is a tricolour and is consisted by white, green and red colours, laid horizontal". --Scroch 23:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The so called Samara flag
wasn't created and consecrated as "Bulgarian national flag", it was a kind of war flag of the Bulgarian volunteer corps during the Liberation war 1877-1878. It wasn't perceived and defined as "national flag" by the Bulgarians in this period. (By the way, it was only one of the types of the war flags of the Bulgarian volunteers.) I have to assert that the present passage in the article, which claims that the Samara flag was direct predecessor of the later Bulgarian national white-green-red tricolour, is totally wrong in one more aspect. In the article it is written:
- Some early versions of the flag (such as the Samara flag) used the Pan-Slavic colours, which were derived from the Pan-Slavism of 19th-century Europe. The central band was blue, and so the flag was similar to the flag of Russia. However after the liberational Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the central band was replaced with green...
In fact the central band of the Samara flag wasn't blue! Actually the Samara flag was red-white-blue:
Moreover, its composition, colours and elements (central cross-shaped icon for example) weren't inspiration for the creation of the Bulgarian national flag such as it appeared according to the Tarnovo Constitution. I have to say also that in the period around the Liberation war the official Russian imperial flag wasn't white-blue-red tricolour, so it wasn't prototype of the Bulgarian national flag. The flag of the Russian Empire between 1858 and 1883 actually was:
The white-blue-red tricolour during this period was used as popular Russian people's flag only unoficially. It was restored as Russian imperial flag five years after the Liberation war and four years after the Tarnovo Consitution. (See article Flag of Russia and especially its version in the Russian Wikipedia.)
There isn't relevant information that the pattern of the Samara flag was reproduced as Bulgarian national flag after the Liberation war, so I can't accept that the Samara flag could be defined as "Bulgarian national flag" or as direct predecessor of the Bulgarian national flag at all.
Therefore, dear Laveol, be more kind toward my editings when I'm trying to erase obviously wrong information. Greetings from Jackanapes/Dimitar Navorski, Vulgarian 11:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] 1946-1967 Flag
This flag (Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1946-1967).svg) is absurd with East German style coat. Please don't make such nonsenses in Wikipedia --Scroch (talk) 21:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
