Flag of the Kingdom of Bohemia

Flag of the Kingdom of Bohemia

Description

  • The Kingdom of Bohemia (1198–1918) was a medieval and early-modern European state, long under the Habsburgs and the direct ancestor of today's Czech Republic
  • Construction: a horizontal bicolour — white above red — the civil flag of the kingdom; identical to the modern flag of Poland
  • The royal banner features a silver two-tailed lion on red — granted by HRE Frederick Barbarossa in 1158

Trivia

  • Member of the Holy Roman Empire from 1002; the Bohemian king was one of the seven prince-electors
  • Defenestration of Prague (1618) in Bohemia triggered the Thirty Years' War
  • The Czechoslovak flag added a blue triangle at the hoist in 1920; the Czech Republic kept this flag after the split with Slovakia in 1993
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  "years": "1198–1918",
  "id": "bohemia",
  "index": "c/czech-republic:1198",
  "title": "Flag of the Kingdom of Bohemia",
  "ratio": "2:3",
  "colors": [
    {
      "color": "white",
      "hex": "#ffffff",
      "note": "Upper band."
    },
    {
      "color": "red",
      "hex": "#d7141a",
      "note": "Lower band."
    }
  ],
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  "countryData": {
    "name": "Kingdom of Bohemia",
    "officialName": "Regnum Bohemiae",
    "un": "none"
  },
  "trivia": "- Member of the Holy Roman Empire from 1002; the Bohemian king was one of the seven prince-electors\n - Defenestration of Prague (1618) in Bohemia triggered the Thirty Years' War\n - The Czechoslovak flag added a blue triangle at the hoist in 1920; the Czech Republic kept this flag after the split with Slovakia in 1993",
  "_name": "Kingdom of Bohemia",
  "_namespace": "empires",
  "_namePart": "bohemia"
}
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