The national flag of Armenia, the Armenian tricolor (known in Armenian Եռագույն, Yerakooyn), consists of three horizontal stripes of equal width, red top, blue in the middle, and orange (also called "apricot color) on the bottom. Armenian Supreme Soviet adopted the current flag on August 24, 1990. June 15, 2006, the Law on the National Flag of Armenia, governing its use, was adopted by the National Assembly of Armenia.
Throughout history, there were many variations of the Armenian flag. In ancient times, Armenian dynasties were represented by different symbolic animals displayed on their flags. In the twentieth century, various Soviet flags represented the Armenian nation.
The color values were interpreted in different ways. For example, red stood for the blood shed by Armenian soldiers in the war, blue for the Armenian sky, the orange represents the fertile lands of Armenia and the workers employed them.
The formal definition of color, as stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia, is:
Red symbolizes the Armenian Highland, the Armenian nation continues to struggle for survival, the content of Christian faith, gaining independence and freedom. Blue symbolizes the will of the Armenian people to live under a peaceful sky. Orange symbolizes the creative and industrious nature of the Armenian people.
On June 2, 1992 breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh adopted a flag similar to the Armenian tricolor. White, 5-toothed, stepped into the carpet sample was added to the flag, starting with 2 faces the right side of fabric and the connection to a point equal to one third of the distance from this side. white pattern represents the current division of Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) from Armenia, and his desire for a possible alliance with the "Motherland". The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 1:2, as well as the Armenian tricolor.
In addition to the flag of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian colors of the flag influenced the design of the Pan-Armenian Games flag. In the center of the blue flag of six interconnected rings, obtained from the Olympic rings. Sixth orange rings, locks with blue and red rings, which symbolize Armenia. Above the ring of flame in the colors of the flag of Armenia.
The national flag is also mentioned in the song "Mere Hayrenik", the national anthem of Armenia. In particular, the second and third verses to sing on the establishment of the national flag:
Here brother, for you a flag,
That I made with my hands
Nights I didn't sleep,
With tears I washed it.
(Repeat previous two lines)
Look at it, three colors
It's our gifted symbol.
Let it be bright against the enemy.
Let Armenia always be glorious.
In the republic of the USSR, the Armenian SSR presented its first flag in 1936. Very similar to the flag of the Soviet Union, it was red and yellow signs hammer and sickle in the corner.Under these were "H-X-SH" initials in Armenian script with serifs. These initials, in the Western Armenian language means "Haygagan Khorhurtayin Sodzialistakan Hanrabedutyun", or "the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic".In 1940, the flag was changed to use the Eastern Armenian language is spoken in the republic. Initials have been changed to "HSSR" meaning "Hayastani Sovetakan Sotsialistikakan Republic" in Eastern Armenian pronunciation.In 1952, the new flag was introduced. Initials completely removed and in their place a horizontal blue stripe was added.
At the end of May 1988, amid growing tensions nationalist, the new leader of the Communist Party of Armenia will prevent Afghan flag to fly to Yerevan for the first time in 60 years. A year later, after the Nagorno-Karabakh topic mass demonstration, which was hoisted the tricolor flag, he called his official recognition. This happened on August 24, 1990, a day after the Armenian Supreme Soviet declared the sovereignty of the republic and renamed the country the Republic of Armenia. At this point, only a year before Armenia declared its formal independence from the Soviet Union flag replaced the 1952 flag.
After independence, the Democratic Republic of Armenia adopted a modern Armenian tricolor. By Stepan Malkhasyants look at the Armenian National Council, an independent Armenian government's chosen colors used in the last period of the dynasty Rubenid, red, blue and yellow.Earlier prototype, which was ultimately rejected, was a rainbow flag. This prototype can be seen on Saryan House-Museum in Yerevan, Armenia. They decided to replace the yellow with an orange, because it is better to combine with two other colors, presenting a more pleasing composition. " flag of independent Armenia, the relations were 2:03, and on August 24, 1990, when the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR adopted as the flag of the Republic of Armenia, the ratio was changed to 1:2.
On 29 November 1920 the Bolsheviks established the Armenian SSR. The new flag was introduced and incorporated in the constitution adopted on February 2, 1922 at the First Congress of Soviets of the Armenian SSR. that the flag there was only a month, because on March 12 of the Armenian SSR, together with the Georgian SSR and the Azerbaijan SSR in the Transcaucasian Federation (Transcaucasia). On December 30, 1922 the RSFSR Transcaucasian became one of the four Soviet republics that joined in the USSR. Flag of the Republic was the hammer and sickle to include a star with the initials "Transcaucasia" (Transcaucasia), written in Russian script without serifs.These letters stand for the Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic (Transcaucasian Soviet Socialist Republic Federativnaya ", Transcaucasian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic). In 1936 Transcaucasia was divided into three constituent regions, which were called the Georgian SSR, Armenian SSR and Azerbaijan SSR.
In 1828, Persian Armenia was annexed to the Russian Empire after the last Russian-Persian War, and became known as Russian Armenia. When the Russian empire collapsed, Russian Armenia declared its independence and joined short-lived Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, along with Georgia and Azerbaijan. This unified state was barely enough, and was soon dissolved. Since the Republic was short-lived, he did not use any flags and symbols. Nevertheless, some historians believe, the horizontal gold, black, red tricolor, similar to the German flag, but there are different ways, were flag Transcaucasia. The Federation was dissolved on May 26, 1918, when Georgia declared its independence of the Democratic Republic of Georgia. Armenia and Azerbaijan declared its independence two days later, on May 28, 1918, and in the Democratic Republic of Armenia (DRA) and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR), respectively.
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.
