Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria

See also: Flag of Galicia
Flag of Galicia until 1849
Flag of Galicia 1849-1890
Flag of Galicia 1890-1918

Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria - created after 1772 when this previously Polish province had been annexed to Austria. Until 1849 Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria constituted one crownland with Bukovina and used the blue-red flag consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width.[1] Following the separation of Bukovina and Galicia in 1849, the old blue-red flag was adopted by Bukovina while Galicia received a new flag consisting of three horizontal stripes of equal width: blue, red and yellow.[2] This flag had remained in use until 1890 when Galicia and Lodomeria received a new flag consisting of two horizontal stripes: red and white. The colours of the new Galician flag, which remained in use until the dissolution of this kingdom in 1918, had resembled the white and red Polish flag adopted in 1831 by the Polish Parliament.

Miller claims that the flag of Galicia consisted of the two stripes: amaranth and white,[3] but the official Austro-Hungarian publication Wappenrolle (1898) clearly features the flag of Galicia in red and white.[4] In Wappenrolle there is a picture of an amaranth and white flag, used unofficially, and described as "the national colours of the Poles" (Nationalfarben der Polen),[5] but under no circumstances as the flag of Galicia. It seems, therefore, that the colours featured in Wappenrolle (red and white) were the correct colours of the Galician flag from 1890 to 1918, and not those reported by Miller (amaranth and white).

Notes

  1. ↑ Jan Miller: Chorągwie i flagi polskie, Warsaw 1962, p. 30
  2. ↑ Jan Miller: Chorągwie i flagi polskie, Warsaw 1962, p. 30
  3. ↑ Jan Miller: Chorągwie i flagi polskie, Warsaw 1962, p. 30
  4. ↑ Hugo Ströhl: Oesterreichisch-ungarische Wappenrolle, Vienna 1898
  5. ↑ Hugo Ströhl: Oesterreichisch-ungarische Wappenrolle, Vienna 1898

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