Pan-Slavic colors

Pan-Slavic colors - blue, white, red colors present in the national and state flags of many Slavic countries, Slavic regions and organizations. Most researchers believe that the colors originated from the trade flag of Russia.

The combination of white, red and blue colors, later called Slavic colors, is known on the banners of Slavic countries since the 13th century: the flag of Serbia in a source from 1281 is known to have been red and blue ("vexillum unum de zendato rubeo et blavo" - "flag equally red and blue"); the blue with red and white eagle banner of Moravia is recorded by the Helnhausen Codex of 1407; Polish flags from the fifteenth century were red with a white eagle; white-blue-red banners are also given on the Stockholm scroll illustrating the solemn procession in Krakow in 1605. 

At the Slavic Congress in Prague in 1848, according to G. V. Vilinbakhov, the participants decided that they would take the Russian white-blue-red flag as the basis for the flags of their liberation movements. At the congress itself, the Czech-speaking Moravians performed under the white-red-blue flag. In the same year, the Lusatian Serbs proclaimed a blue-red-white tricolor as their symbol. Also these colors, but in a slightly different sequence (blue-white-red) were used by the banner of Austrian Croatia J. Jelacic in 1848, to whose flag the modern Croatian flag goes back. Slovenian patriots repeated the Russian tricolor in the arrangement of colors, and Slovak revolutionaries in 1848 adopted the reverse order of colors for their flag - red-blue-white. Since 1918 the blue-white-red colors became the symbol of the united South-Slavic state.

There is also a version of the origin of the Pan-Slavic colors from the colors of the French Revolution in 1789, symbolizing the revolutionary ideals.

Historical flags with pan-Slavic colors

Modern flags