This is a list of flags used in Slovakia.
Current flags
National flag
Main article: Flag of SlovakiaFlag | From | Use | Description | Ratio |
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3 September 1992 | National flag | A horizontal tricolor of white, blue, and red; charged with coat of arms at the hoist side. | 2:3 | |
3 September 1992 | National flag for vertical display |
Governmental flags
Flag | From | Use | Description | Ratio |
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1 January 1993 | Flag of the President | Coat of arms of Slovakia in banner from, with a narrow white border and a wide border with oblique stripes in white, blue and red. | 1:1 |
Subnational flags
Regional flags
Flag | Administrative division | Adopted |
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Bratislava Region | ||
Trnava Region | ||
Trenčín Region | ||
Nitra Region | ||
Žilina Region | ||
Banská Bystrica Region | ||
Prešov Region | ||
Košice Region |
Historical flags
Flag | Date | Use |
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1848 | Flag from Demands of the Slovak Nation from 11 May 1848. | |
1848–1849 | Flag used by the Slovak volunteer corps during the Slovak Uprising in 1848/1849. Later it became the flag of the Slovak National Council. | |
1848 | One of the flags, where the double cross was no longer green, but blue three-peaked, first used in 1848 during the autumn campaign. | |
1848–1849 | Another Slovak flag used during the revolution. | |
1868 1919–1938 1938–1939 1939–1945 1990–1992 |
The flag with this order of colors was used from 1848/1849 and was officially established in 1868 as the flag of the Slovaks. It was widely used by Slovaks living in the United States and American Slovak associations. In the years 1919–1938 it was the unofficial flag of Slovakia, and in the years 1938–1939 the official flag of the autonomous Slovak Country. In the years 1939–1945 the official flag of the Slovak Republic and in the period 1990–1992 the official flag of the Slovak Republic within the Czech Republic. | |
Czecho-Slovak flag from the design of Milan Rastislav Štefánik, which was later used as the flag of the Czechoslovak National Council. | ||
1918–1920 | The flag of the First Czechoslovak Republic in the years 1918–1920, which was based on the national flag of Bohemia. According to the CNR Act 67/1990 Coll. was also the official but practically unused flag of the Czech Republic within the Czechoslovakia from 13 March 1990 to 31 December 1992. | |
1919 | The flag of the Slovak Soviet Republic, which existed only for a short time (from 16 June to 7 July 1919) . | |
1920–1992 | The flag of Czechoslovakia in the years 1920 to 1992 and also the official flag of Czech Republic from 1 January 1993. | |
1939–1945 | War flag Slovak Republic (1939–1945). | |
1944 | The flag of Platoon 535 used during the Warsaw Uprising. | |
1917-1918 | The obverse side of the flag of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia, with the reverse side being the russian flag. | |
1914-1915 1917-1918 |
The flag used by the Czechoslovak units in the French Foreign Legion, with the legion being disbanded in 1915 due to heavy casualties and then reestablished again in 1917. | |
1918 | The flag used by the Czechoslovak Legion in Italy. | |
1917-1918 | The obverse side of the flag used by the First Assault Battalion of the Czechoslovak Legions in Russia. | |
1960-1990 | The reverse side of the flag of the Czechoslovak People's Army, with the obverse side using various military flags. | |
1944 | The obverse side of the flag used by the Second independent parachute brigade in the USSR during the Slovak National Uprising with the flag being lost in December 1944 and only a replica existing. | |
1917-1920 | The flag of the 2nd Czechoslovak regiment Tatranský of the Czechoslovak Legion in Russia. The other side has a bohemian lion on a red background instead. |
Political flags
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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current | |||
2021–present | Republic Movement | ||
2019–present | For the People | ||
2018–present 2015–2018 |
People's Party Our Slovakia | ||
1992–present | Communist Party of Slovakia | ||
1990–present | Christian Democratic Movement | ||
1990–present | Slovak National Party | ||
former | |||
2005–2006 | Slovak Togetherness | ||
Link to file | 1990–2004 | Party of the Democratic Left | |
1938–1945 | German Party | ||
1913–1945 | Slovak People's Party and Hlinka Guard | ||
Czechoslovakia | |||
?–1990 | Communist Party of Czechoslovakia |
Ethnic Group Flags
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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?-Present | Flag of the Carpathian Germans. |
See also
References
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