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Flags, Symbols & Currency of Romania
Flags, Symbols & Currency of Romania
The National Flag of Romania was officially adopted on December 27, 1989.
The National Flag of Romania is a vertical tricolor and features three equal vertical bands of cobalt blue (hoist side), chrome yellow, and vermillion red. The colors are those of the principalities of Walachia (red and yellow) and Moldavia (red and blue), which united in 1862 to form Romania. The flag has a width-to-length proportion ratio of 2:3.
History of the Flag of Romania
The colors red, blue and yellow, that feature in modern Romania’s national flag were used in the flag of the revolutionaries during the Wallachian uprising of 1821. In 1848, the “Justice, Fraternity” flag of the Wallachian revolutionaries was used as the first modern tricolor flag. According to historians, the blood red color represented fraternity, the field yellow color symbolized justice and the sky-blue color was a symbol of l