Latvia Flag

A bit of History

The national flag of Latvia was adopted on February 27, 1990. The design was officially declared by the Parliament as the national flag on 15 June 1921. Latvia had declared independent state in 1918 and the flag was used until the loss of sovereignty in 1940.Latvia's flag has three stripes, top and bottom are maroon and central white. The proportions of the strips are of 2:1:2. Thus, strips maroon have a thickness equal to twice the plant. The relationship between length and width of the flag is 2:1. The red hue is dark maroon, Pantone system as defined in 1807, and is called red Latvian.It is documented from the second half of the thirteenth century the Latvian tribes use red flags with a white central band. These exhibits were located by Jekabs Lautenbahs-Jusmins, a Latvian folklore researcher, in the Chronicle of the Livonian Order ("Reimchronik"), a work that describes various events that took place in Latvian land until 1290. The artist Ansis Cirulis, based on standard descriptions of the Latvian tribes included in the aforementioned work, developed the design of the flag that was presented in May 1917.