Flags of Yugoslavia

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The Yugoslav flag consists of three horizontal stripes in blue, white and red. It is one of the symbols of Yugoslavia, a former state in South-Eastern Europe that existed in different forms between 1918 and 2003 and that brought together the current countries of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo.

History of the three Yugoslav flags 

It is necessary to go back in the history of Yugoslavia to discover its three former main flags:

The flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia is the vexillary emblem of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes that has accompanied the Yugoslav Kingdom from its creation in 1918 until its disintegration. It was exactly in 1929 that this nation took the name of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Its flag, which used the pan-Slavic colours, consisted of a three-coloured flag with three horizontal stripes in blue, white and red. This rectangular flag had proportions of 2/3. It was used as the flag and national flag of the Yugoslav kingdom.

In 1946, this country became the Socialist Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia and after the Second World War adopted the flag of the Socialist Federalist Republic of Yugoslavia: having the same tricolour flag but with the dimensions ½ with a central red star and then a red star with yellow edges to represent this new communist country. Almost all the flags of the Yugoslav federated countries were composed in the same way: Croatia flag, Montenegro flag, Serbia flag, Slovenia flag. Only the flag of Macedonia was different: not a tricolour but a red background with a red and yellow star in the left canton to represent communism.

Finally, following the constitutional change in Yugoslavia and the abandonment of socialism-communism as a political model, the Yugoslav federal government adopted the flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: the same tricolour as the royal flag but without the communist star. However, it has kept the same dimensions as in the previous era: ½  In 1992, the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro kept this last model of the Yugoslav flag, but each of its two countries had its own old flag. They abandoned it after their division into two countries: Serbia and Montenegro.

Find the three models of old Yugoslav flags on our online flag store AZ flag in the form of classic 150x90cm flags, table flags, 45x30cm flags and the royal flag of Yugoslavia.

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