{{short description|Color combination of Slavic nations}} {{use mdy dates|date=May 2024}} {{use American English|date=May 2024}}
[[File:Pan-Slavic flag.svg|thumb|250px|The three [[Pan-Slavism|pan-Slavic]] colors approved at the [[Prague Slavic Congress, 1848|1848 Slavic Congress in Prague]] as adopted on the [[flag of Yugoslavia]]]] [[File:Entry of the wedding procession of Sigismund III Vasa into Cracow (detail).jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of the wedding procession of [[Sigismund III Vasa]] in [[Kraków]] from the Stockholm Scroll ({{circa|1605}}).]] {{multiple image |header = The inspiration of the [[Pan-Slavism|pan-Slavic]] colors in 1848 |align = right |image1=Flag of Russia (1896–1918).svg |width1 = 150 |caption1=[[Russian tricolor]] of [[Peter the Great]] from 1693 |image2=Pan-Slavic flag.svg |width2 = 150 |caption2=[[Pan-Slavic]] flag from 1848 }}
The '''pan-Slavic colors'''—[[blue]], [[white]] and [[red]]—were defined by the [[Prague Slavic Congress, 1848]], based on the symbolism of the colors of the [[flag of Russia]], which was introduced in the late 17th century. Historically, however, many [[Slavs|Slavic]] nations and states had already adopted flags and other national symbols that used some combination of those three colors. [[Slavic countries]] that use or have used the colors include [[Russia]], [[Yugoslavia]],<ref name=Yugoslavia/> [[Czechoslovakia]],<ref name=Czech/> [[Czech Republic]],<ref name=Czech/> [[Slovakia]],<ref name="Shelley" /> [[Croatia]],<ref name="Shelley" /> [[Serbia]]<ref name="Shelley" /> and [[Slovenia]],<ref name="Shelley" /> whereas [[Belarus]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Montenegro]], [[North Macedonia]], [[Poland]]{{efn|The [[flag of Poland]] is red and white, but has different roots that pre-date the pan-Slavic colors.}} and [[Ukraine]] use different color schemes.
Yugoslavia, both the Kingdom ([[Kingdom of Yugoslavia]], 1918–1943) and the Republic ([[SFR Yugoslavia]], 1943–1992) was a union of several Slavic nations, and therefore not only sported the pan-Slavic colors but adopted the pan-Slavic flag as its own (later adding a [[red star]]). After the initial [[breakup of Yugoslavia]] in the early 1990s, the two remaining Yugoslav republics—Montenegro and Serbia—reconstituted as [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] in 1992 and as [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]] in 2003, and continued to use the pan-Slavic flag until its own dissolution when Montenegro [[Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006|proclaimed independence]] in 2006. Serbia continues to use a [[Flag of Serbia|flag]] with all three Pan-Slavic colors, along with fellow republics Croatia and Slovenia.
Most flags with pan-Slavic colors have been introduced and recognized by Slavic nations following the first Slavic Congress of 1848, although Serbia adopted its [[Flag of Serbia|red-blue-white tricolor]] in 1835 and the ethnic flag of [[Sorbs]] (blue-red-white) had already been designed in 1842. The [[Flag of Slovenia#Origins|flag of Slovene nation]] (white-blue-red), which was based on the flag of [[Carniola]], was introduced two months prior to the congress. Czech [[Moravians]] proclaimed their flag (white-red-blue) at the very congress. In 1848, Croatian viceroy [[Josip Jelačić]] first designed the [[flag of Croatia]] with its modern tricolor (red-white-blue) for the then-concepted [[Triune Kingdom]] (and officially adopted by the [[Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg)|Kingdom of Croatia]]), a group of Slovenian intellectuals in [[Vienna, Austria]] created the [[flag of Slovenia]] (white-blue-red), and the first [[Slovak flag]] (in reverse layout – red-blue-white) was introduced and flown by [[Slovak Uprising of 1848–49|Slovak revolutionaries]].<ref name="Vilinbahov">{{cite web |last=Вилинбахов |first=Георгий Вадимович |title=Государственная геральдика в России: Теория и практика |year=2003 |url=https://www.dissercat.com/content/gosudarstvennaya-geraldika-v-rossii-teoriya-i-praktika |access-date=2 June 2021 |language=ru}}</ref> The [[flag of the Czech Republic]] adopted its three [[national colours of the Czech Republic|national colors]] in 1920 with the founding of [[Czechoslovakia]].
== Flags with Pan-Slavic colors == <!--You need to cite a source specifying who claimed the colors in each flag are the Pan-Slavic ones and in what year.--> === Current national flags === <gallery class="center"> File:Flag of Croatia.svg|[[Flag of Croatia|Croatia]]<ref name="flags">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ZsrAQAAMAAJ&q=Pan-Slavic+flag | title=Flags | publisher=Dorling Kindersley Publishing, DK Publishing | author=Crampton, William G | year=1997 | isbn=0789442248}}</ref> File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg|[[Flag of the Czech Republic|Czech Republic]],<ref name=Czech>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWla_xARjI0C&q=Pan-Slavic+colors&pg=PA135 | title=Flag Wars and Stone Saints: How the Bohemian Lands Became Czech | publisher=Harvard University Press | year=2007 | pages=135 | isbn=978-0674025820}}</ref> formerly [[Flag of Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]] (1918–1993) File:Flag of Russia.svg|[[Flag of Russia|Russia]]<ref name="Shelley">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5qlXatHRJtMC&q=Pan-Slavic+flag&pg=PR16 | title=Nation Shapes: The Story behind the World's Borders | publisher=ABC-CLIO | author=Shelley, Fred M. | year=2013 | pages=xvi | isbn=9781610691062}}</ref> File:Flag of Serbia.svg|[[Flag of Serbia|Serbia]]<ref name="Shelley" /> File:Flag of Slovakia.svg|[[Flag of Slovakia|Slovakia]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F5HxLS-NKLIC&q=Pan-Slavic+flag&pg=PT28 | title=Flag Book | publisher=Popular Prakashan | author=Kamath, Anjali | pages=27 | isbn=9788179915127}}</ref><ref name="Shelley" /> File:Flag of Slovenia.svg|[[Flag of Slovenia|Slovenia]]<ref name="Shelley" /> </gallery>
=== Former national flags with the Pan-Slavic colors === <gallery class="center"> File:Flag of Montenegro (1905–1918).svg|{{FIAV|historical}}Flag of [[Kingdom of Montenegro]]<br/>(1910–1916) File:Flag of Serbia (1882–1918).svg|{{FIAV|historical}}[[Flag of Serbia|Kingdom of Serbia]]<br/>(1882–1918) File:Flag of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.svg|{{FIAV|historical}}[[Flag of Yugoslavia|Kingdom of Yugoslavia]]<br/>(1918–1941)<ref name=Yugoslavia>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wVkdAQAAMAAJ&q=Pan-Slavic | title=The Encyclopedia Americana, Volume 11 | publisher=Americana Corporation | year=1972 | pages=357 | isbn=9780717201044}}</ref> File:Flag of Independent State of Croatia.svg|{{FIAV|historical}} Flag of the [[Independent State of Croatia]] (1941–1945) File:Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg|{{FIAV|historical}}[[Flag of Yugoslavia|Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] (1945–1992)<ref name=Yugoslavia/> File:Flag of Russia (1991–1993).svg|{{FIAV|historical}}[[Flag of Russia|Russia]]<br/>(1991–1993) File:Flag of Serbia and Montenegro.svg|{{FIAV|historical}}[[Flag of Serbia and Montenegro|Serbia and Montenegro]]<br/>(1992–2006)<ref name="flags" /> File:Flag of First Slovak Republic 1939-1945.svg|{{FIAV|historical|}}[[Autonomous Land of Slovakia|Autonomous Slovak land]] within the [[Second Czechoslovak Republic]]<br/>(1938–1939)<br/>[[First Slovak Republic]]<br/>(1939–1945)<br/>[[Slovak Socialist Republic]] within [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]]<br/>(1969–1990)<br/>[[Slovak Socialist Republic (1969–1990)/Slovak Republic (1990–1992)|Slovak Republic]] within [[Czech and Slovak Federative Republic]]<br/>(1990–1992) File:Proposed flag of Montenegro.svg|[[flag of Montenegro|Montenegro]] (1994 proposal, never implemented) </gallery>
=== Other entities === <gallery class="center"> File:State Flag of Serbian Krajina (1991).svg|[[Republic of Serbian Krajina|Serbian Krajina]] File:Flag of Republika Srpska.svg|[[Flag of Republika Srpska|Republika Srpska]]<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CGMWAAAAYAAJ&q=Pan-Slavic | title=Bulletin on Constitutional Case-law | publisher=Secretariat of the Venice Commission | year=2007 | pages=395}}</ref> File:Flag of the Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth (January Uprising).svg|The [[Polish National Government (January Uprising)|Polish National Government]] during the [[January Uprising]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tygodnik.tvp.pl/45440873/obok-orla-znak-pogoni-poszli-nasi-w-boj-bez-broni |title=Obok Orła znak Pogoni, poszli nasi w bój bez broni... |access-date=November 5, 2022 |archive-date=November 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221105173124/https://tygodnik.tvp.pl/45440873/obok-orla-znak-pogoni-poszli-nasi-w-boj-bez-broni |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://kresy.pl/kresopedia/polska-bialo-granatowo-czerwoni/ Polska Biało Granatoewo Czerwoni]</ref> File:Flag of Transnistria (Russian tricolour).svg|[[Flag of Transnistria|Transnistria (Pridnestrovie)]] (co-official flag)<ref>{{cite news|url=http://euromaidanpress.com/2017/04/13/occupied-moldovas-transnistria-recognized-russian-tricolor-as-second-national-flag/|title=Transnistria frozen conflict zone recognizes Russian tricolor as second "national" flag|newspaper=[[Euromaidan Press]]|date=13 April 2017}}</ref>{{efn|Although the majority of the population of [[Transnistria]] is Slavic ([[Russians|Russian]] and [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]]), the largest single ethnic group are the [[Romanians]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Transnistria: the "hot" nature of a "frozen" conflict|first=Mihai-Cristian|last=Statie|publisher=[[School of Advanced Military Studies]]|location=[[Kansas]]|year=2013|pages=35|s2cid=151006048}}</ref>}} File:Tradicionalna zastava Vojvodine sa grbom.svg|Traditional flag [[Vojvodina]] File:Flag of Vojvodina.svg|Flag of Vojvodina File:Flag of Sorbs.svg|The [[Sorbs]]<ref>{{cite book|last1=Znamierowski|first1=Alfred|title=Illustrated Book of Flags|date=2003|publisher=Southwater|page=237}}</ref> File:Flag of Rusyns 2007.svg|The [[Rusyns]]<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.rusynacademy.sk/english/en-academy5.html | title=Academy of Rusyn Culture in the Slovak Republic: Rusyn Symbols}}</ref> File:Flag of Crimea.svg|[[Flag of Crimea|Crimea]] File:Flag of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia.svg|The [[Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia]] File:Flag of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.svg|The [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia]] File:Colours of Slavonia.svg|The [[Kingdom of Slavonia]] File:Flag of the Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.svg|The [[Kingdom of Croatia-Slavonia]] </gallery>
==See also== *[[Nordic Cross flag]] *[[Pan-Arab colors]] *[[Pan-African colors]] *[[Pan-nationalism]] *[[Pan-Slavism]] *[[List of flags with blue, red, and white stripes]]
==Notes== {{notelist}}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
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