This page is part of © FOTW Flags Of The World website

Bulgaria - Political Flags

Last modified: 2005-09-24 by rob raeside
Keywords: bulgaria | vmro | simeon ii |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors


  • VMRO Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization
  • DPS Bulgarian Turks
  • BSP Bulgarian Socialist Party
  • BEL Bulgarian Euro Left
  • NDSV National Movement Simeon II
  • SDS Union of Democratic Forces
  • BKP Bulgarian Communist Party
  • BNS Bulgarian National Alliance
  • Ataka

See also:

VMRO

VMRO by Ivan Marinov

Inner Macedonian Revolutionary Organization - Bulgarian political party, it was a member of the ruling Union of Democratic Forces coalition between 1997-2000.

Coat of arms of VMRO. The inscription in the upper part of the coat of arms means: "Union and strength".

VMRO by Dov Gutterman at http://www.bulgariaonline.bg/macedonia/

Flag with initials used on it. The Bulgarian/Macedonian name that sounds something like "Vnutrashnya Makedonska Revolucionarna Organizacija". BMRO fought primarily against Turks for the independence of Bulgaria and Macedonia, and as might be seen from the flag, the ideology was anarchic-revolutionary (as were the methods). The group was soon (at the beginning of the 20th century) split between those wanting Macedonia a part of Bulgaria and those struggling for the independence of Macedonia. Therefore, to cut the story short, today we have VMRO both in modern Bulgaria and Macedonia (where it is called VMRO-DPMNE), both being modern democratic parties that have long forsaken their anarcho-revolutionary methods.
Željko Heimer, 24 February 2002

DPS

DPS by Stoyan Antonov

The party Movement for Rights and Freedoms (Dvizhenie za prava i svobodi, DPS) was founded at the end of 1990. Since that date the undoubted leader of the party and Bulgarian Turks is Ahmed Dogan. Since the 1991 first democratic elections the party of DPS has been represented in the parliamentary. Under Article 1, Section 4 of the Statute of MRF (DPS) the symbols are:

  1. Emblem (logo) - two crossed olive branches and the (Cyrillic) letters DPS above
  2. Flag - sky-blue with the emblem in the center.

Source: The Statute of DPS on www.dps.bg/ustav/html . Sometimes (I am myself a witness) the Turkish abbreviation 'HOH' replaces the Bulgarian 'DPS'. This image from the DPS website is a darker blue.
Stoyan Antonov, 4 September 2001

DPS by Ivan S