Catalan Nationalist Flags (Spain)

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• Estelada
• Catalan Countries Proposal (Països Catalans)
• Nationalist Parties' Flags 1977
• Catalan spoken Flag
• Catalonia 1931-1939

See also:

• Origin of the Aragonese-Catalan Flag
• Political Parties and Movements (Spain)
• Catalonia (Spain)

Other sites:

• Història de l'Estelada (History of the Estelada, Catalan text only)

by Jorge Candeias
First used 1918

The flag of Catalonia with a blue hoist triangle and white star in it, was designed around 1904 by Catalan nationalists who had returned from Cuba after its independence in 1902, taking the Cuban flag as model. It was adopted as the flag of the Estat Catala (Catalan State) party, which proposed the creation of an independent Catalan state, th