Czech Republic Flag

A bit of History

Initially, the flag was only the two horizontal stripes in the colors of ancient Czech coat of arms (silver lion on a red field), but the similarity to the flag of Poland and matching colors with the flag of Austria, made adding the blue triangle. However, this flag is still used as a flag of Bohemia (part of the country).The authorship of the current flag is somewhat controversial, but most believe that the author vexilologistas was Jaroslav Kursa (1875 - 1950), archivist of the Department of Home Affairs. This flag was officially approved by the National Assembly of Czechoslovakia on March 30, 1920. The flag was changed in the years of German occupation during World War II and replaced by a white horizontal tricolor, red-blue. Although the war ended, the original flag was recovered.