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Slovakian regional flags

Similarly as in the Czech Republic, Slovakia has recently also been divided into several semi-autonomous regions. According to Petr Exner (after his discussions with Slovak vexillologists), the regional flags will probably be horizontal tricolors with regional CoA's situated identically as in the Slovak national flags. The colors of the flags will be derived from the regional CoA's, and the latter from (combinations of) the historical Hungarian provinces ("ľ upa").
Let's look forward to new info...
Jan Zrzavy, 10 Nov 2001

The historical Hungarian provinces in Hungarian: megye (1837-1849; 1867-1920), in German: komitat (1790-1837, 1849-1867), and in Latin: comitatus (before 1709). Ľupa means county in Slovakian.
István Molnár, 7 Apr 2002

Yesterday, the first assemblies of the new regions of the Slovak Republic were elected. New regional symbols are to be expected.
Jan Zrzavy, 3 Dec 2001

Nowadays on regional level there are State adminstrative offices called Krajske urady (sg. Krajsky úrad) with a Head called "prednosta" and Self- government e