CIRCA - 1848 🇭🇺 - horizontal tricolor of red (top), white (middle) & green (bottom) equal stripes

HISTORY: Horizontal bands of red & white emerged in the heraldic banners of the Magyar (9c -1301) (The red may also be

related to a solid maroon 9c Banner of Greater Moravia) with green introduced in 13-14c ⛨ Hungarian coat-of-arms

(as the mound for St. Stephen's Patriarchal cross ☨ [Cross of Lorraine or double-cross] after the country was Christianized.)

The tricolor arose from the historical colors centuries later, during the Spring of Nations

revolution of 1848 against the Hapsburgs.

In 1949 a Soviet ⛨ coat of arms was added but later removed after the 1956 Revolution,

where protester literally tore it out, creating "flags with a hole" signifying rejection of

communist totalitarian rule.

VEXILLOLOGY:*

• The RED Stripe  symbolizes strength + is traditionally associated with blood 🩸 shed for independence

• The WHITE Stripe is for fidelity (faithfulness, loyalty, or purity) + traditionally linked with the nations rivers, the Danube & Tisza (representing life & continuity)

• The GREEN Stripe represents hope (a promise of renewal amid adversity) + is traditionally associated with fertile plains & forests (verdant & life sustaining)

The design is very similar to the contemporarily designed Bulgarian flag🔍, & the Lithuanian flag🔍, designed a few decades later,

but the resemblance was not intentional.

* The STUDY of FLAGS; their history, symbolism, usage, and design. From Latin vexillum - referring to a Roman military standard / flag (from velum= cloth/ covering/sail/curtain

[PIE🔍 root weg = to weave / to cover]) + Greek suffix -logia = study]