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by Carlos Esparza, 21 January 2001
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Croatian horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue inherited
it's colours, of course, from the Croatian coats of arms:
Croatian chequered red and silver, Dalmatian blue with three
golden leopards, and Slavonian blue with red field with black
marten bordered with two white wavy lines, and golden star above.
All of the three coats were, in fact, used in different times for
all the land, as it is with the name also. Later in 19th cent.
the geographical meaning of these names was finally firmly
established. The land was named in 19th cent Triunar
(meaning one made of three) Kingdom
of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia. Therefore, it is
not unusual that the flag was made of all three colours.
The first time that it was officially proclaimed was in 1848 and
under the influence of revolutionary movements in Europe, a
simple tricolour was made. The flag was, of course, without any
coat. However, it was used as local flag in a big empire, so it
remained more or less internationally unknown, but it became one
of the most important symbols of the Croatian people. Very often
it can be seen on old postcards, most often together with
Croatian coats (normally not on the flag, but from time to time
as a part of the flag).
After the end of the World War Croatia proclaimed independence,
and a tricolour became the state flag, again without coats. The
collision with the Dutch flag didn't became, as a matter of fact,
a problem, because the state was short living. After a short
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