Armenian falg in 19th century

After Armenia was divided between the Persian and Ottoman empires, the idea of the flag of Armenia ceased to exist for some time. Armenian Catholic priest Father Ghevont Alishan has created a new flag for Armenia in 1885, after the Armenian Students Association of Paris requested a funeral by the French writer Victor Hugo. Alishan first design was very similar to the flag of Armenia today: horizontal tricolor.However, it is more like an inverted variation of the current flag of Bulgaria. The upper stripe is red, symbolizing the first Sunday of Easter (the so-called "red" Sunday), and then the green band is "Green" Easter Sunday, and, finally, any color, white, was selected to complete the combination. [1] While in France, Alishan also developed a second flag, identified today as "nationalist Armenian Flag. He was also a tricolor, but unlike the previous design, it was one of the vertical flag is similar to the French flag. Its colors were red, green and blue, from left to right, which is the rainbow that Noah saw after landing on Mount Ararat.