{{Infobox flag | Name = Valencian | Image = Senyera del nacionalisme valencià.svg | Alt = Flag of Spain | Use = 100000 | Symbol = {{FIAV|100000}} {{FIAV|proposal}} | Proportion = N/D | Adoption = Unofficial | Designer = Valencian nationalism }}
The '''estrelada''' or''' valencian national flag''' (full name ''Senyera estrelada'', meaning "starred flag", from ''estrela'', star) is an unofficial flag typically flown by republican Valencian supporters to express their support for an independent Republic of Valencia. It evolved from the flag of the city of Valencia (nowadays the official flag of the Valencian Community), called ''senyera coronada''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2020-11-04 |title=Fitxa tècnica per a la bandera de lluita que reivindica la república valenciana, anomenada 'estrelada' |url=https://www.diarilaveu.cat/societat/fitxa-tecnica-bandera-lluita-reivindica-republica-valenciana-estrelada-80288/ |access-date=2025-06-08 |website=Diari La Veu del País Valencià |language=ca}}</ref>
The white star version has been used by Valencianist republican groups since the early 20th century. The first testimony of its use was a political meeting by Acció Nacionalista Valenciana in the 1930s. This political party had a large ''estrelada ''flag which used to be put up at the balcony on specific dates.
The most ancient known graphic document of an ''estrelada ''flag is a photograph of a rally in support of the Valencian Statute in Alzira, on 27 September 1932, and a red starred ''estrelada ''in a poster by Esquerra Valenciana. Nowadays is mostly used by the Valencian national movement.<ref name=":0" />
== Origins == thumb|Flag of Esquerra Valenciana (1931). The first testimony of the ''estrelada'' dates back to the early 1930s, in an act of Acció Nacionalista Valenciana.<ref>Temps d'acció, page 145, Editorial Denes</ref> The oldest preserved graphic document with an ''estrelada'' is a photograph of a rally in favor of the Valencian Statute in Alzira, on September 27, 1932; and more famously a Spanish Civil War poster by Luis Dubon for Esquerra Valenciana.<ref name=":0" />
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==External links== * [http://www.senyeravalenciana.com/estrelada Senyera Valenciana]{{dead link|url=http://www.senyeravalenciana.com/estrelada|bot=InternetArchiveBot|date=March 2019}} story of the starry senyera. * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100830073136/http://www.senyeravalenciana.com/?p=206 Senyera Valenciana], ''estrelada'' history in Valencian
Category:Valencian nationalism