List of Belgian flags
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"The Belgian Nation chooses red, yellow and black as its colours " - article 193 of the Belgian constition
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This is a list of flags used in Belgium.
National flag
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1831-present | Flag of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 13:15 ratio. Technically the national flag, but rarely seen in the officially approved dimensions. |
Ensign
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1831–present | Civil ensign of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 2:3 ratio. | |
| 1950–present | State ensign of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red defaced by a lion rampant ensigned by a crown, both sable (black), the lion armed and langued gules (red). |
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Military
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950–present | Flag of the Belgian Army | The Army badge, crowned, on a white field | |
| Ensign of the Belgian Air Component | The Air Component badge and roundel on a blue field. | ||
| Naval ensign of the Belgian Navy | A yellow saltire on a white field, bordered above and below in red and to the left and right in black, charged on the top with a crown above crossed cannons and on the bottom by a fouled anchor. |
Navy
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1831–Present | Naval jack of the Belgian Navy[1] | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red with a 1:1 ratio. | |
| Pennant of the Belgian Navy[2] | rectangular black-yellow-red pennant with split fly | ||
| Commodore of Belgium belgium[3] | The rectangular tricolour of Belgium with split fly on the end | ||
| 1966–Present | The flag hoisted by Belgian yachts registered in yachting associations approved by the Minister, also calle the "Belgian yacht ensign"[4] | The National ensign to be hoisted by Belgian yachts is made of three stripes placed vertically, black, yellow and red, of equal width; the black stripe is placed at hoist. | |
| 1999–Present | Belgian pleasure boats often hoist the "European civil ensign"[5] | The European Union flag with the Belgian civil ensign in canton, with a white fimbriation. | |
| 2016–Present | The civil ensign, bearing a black lion, is flown by non-naval ships with a crew partly from the Naval Reserve.[6] | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red defaced by a lion rampant, sable (black), armed and langued gules (red). | |
| 2021–Present | The Belgian Naval Auxiliary Ensign or the flag of Sovereignty ship under Belgian command[7] | A blue background with the Belgian Naval ensign in the top left corner and on the right middle a white fouled anchor with a crown on top | |
| 1957–present | Standard of the Admiral Benelux |
Naval companie
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1871–1935 | Red Star Line | ||
| 1895–Present | Compagnie Maritime Belge |
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Sub-national
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Regions and communities
[edit ]| Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brussels-Capital Region | 2015 | |||
| Flemish Community and the Flemish Region | 1973 | Or, a lion rampant armed and langued Gules.[8] [9] | ||
| French Community and Walloon Region | 1991–present (French Community) 1998–present (Walloon Region) |
a red rooster on a yellow field | ||
| German-speaking community | 1990 | |||
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Provinces
[edit ]| Flag | Administrative division | Adopted | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Flanders | 1997 | coveted background in 12 pieces of gold and azure, with a heart shield of gules in the middle over the whole[10] | ||
| East Flanders | 1999 | |||
| Antwerp | 1997 | |||
| Limburg | 1996 | |||
| Flemish Brabant | 1996 | |||
| Walloon Brabant | 1995 | |||
| Hainaut | ||||
| Namur | ||||
| Liège | ||||
| Luxembourg | 2018 | Azure and white horizontal stripes with the crowned red lion[11] | ||
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Brussels
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2015 | First version of Flag of Brussels-Capital Region | A blue field with a yellow iris with a white border on top. | |
| 2015 - present | Flag of the Brussels-Capital Region | ||
| 1930 - present | Flag of Brussels (city) |
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Community commissions in Brussels
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use |
|---|---|---|
| 1989–present | Flag of the Common Community Commission | |
| 1989–present | Flag of the Flemish Community Commission | |
| 1989–present | Flag of the French Community Commission |
Municipalities
[edit ]Main article: Commons:flags of municipalities of Belgium
Royal standards
[edit ]Monarch
[edit ]Each royal standard for a monarch is a square rouge ponceau banner of the royal arms, personalised with the king's cypher in each corner.
| Flag | Date | Use |
|---|---|---|
| The Belgian flag with the royal crown | ||
| 1831–1865 | Royal standard of Leopold I | |
| 1865–1909 | Leopold II | |
| 1909–1934 | Albert I | |
| 1934–1951 | Leopold III | |
| 1951–1993 | Baudouin I | |
| 1993–2013 | Albert II | |
| 2013–present | Philippe |
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Historical flags
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 800-888[12] | Imperial Orilflamme of Charlemagne | A 3 pointed green field with 8 golden crosses and 6 flowers. | |
| 862–1797[12] | Flag of the County of Flanders | A yellow flag with a black lion in the center. "Or, a lion rampant armed and langued Gules" | |
| 900–1477[12] | Flag of the County of Hainaut | A yellow quartered banner with two black and two red lions. | |
| 980 - 1790 | Flag of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège, also of the Republic of Liège | A bicolour, with two equal vertical bands of red and yellow. | |
| 1183–1794[12] | Flag of the Duchy of Brabant | A golden lion on a black field. | |
| 1482–1714[12] | Flag of Spanish Netherlands | A white flag with the cross of Burgundy. | |
| 1482–1714[12] | Civil Ensign of Spanish Netherlands | A horizontal tricolour of red, white and yellow, with the Cross of Burgundy in the centre. | |
| 1781 – 1786[13] | Flag of the Austrian Netherlands | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, white and gold with the arms of Austria. | |
| 1789 –1790 | Flag of the Brabant Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of red, black and yellow. | |
| 1830 –1831 | Flag of the Belgian Revolution | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, yellow and red. | |
| 1831–present | Flag of Belgium | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red. |
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Colonial
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1908–1960[14] | Flag of the Belgian Congo | A blue flag with yellow five-pointed star. | |
| 1936–1960[15] | Standard of the governor-general of the Belgian Congo | A vertical tricolour of black, yellow, and red, with a yellow star in the upper left canton on a blue field. |
Political flags
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
flag of political parties
| |||
| 2021–present | Flag of Vooruit | ||
| 2000–present | Flag of N-VA (New Flemish Alliance)[16] | ||
| 1978–present | Flag of the Parti Socialiste (Socialist Party) | ||
| 2004 - present | Flag of Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) | ||
| 1978–2004 | Flag of the Vlaams Blok (Flemish block) | ||
| 1973–1978 | Flag of the Belgian Socialist Party | A red background with a fist holding a red rose | |
| 1936–1945 | Flag of the Rexist Party | ||
| 1933–1944 | Flag of the Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond | ||
| 1931–1941 | Flag of the Verdinaso | ||
Independence or unification flags
| |||
| 1832 - present | Flag of Rattachism | The French flag with a Red Gallic Rooster in the centre. | |
| 1954 - present | Flemish strijdvlag (battle flag) flag of the Flemish | A lion rampant sable, armed and langued gules, five mullets sabel in orle | |
| 1940 - present | Flag of the Wallonie Libre [17] | Red rooster on a yellow background with on the top a text that states "Wallonie Libre" (Wallonian liberation) | |
Other
[edit ]| Flag | Date | Use | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1722 - 1731 | Flag of the Belgian Ostend Company | A yellow field with a black double headed eagle with a crown on top and carrying the tricolored arms of Austria on his chest. | |
| 1883–1920 | Flag of Neutral Moresnet | A tricolour, with three equal horizontal bands of black, white and blue. | |
| 1955–present | Flag of Europe | A circle of 12 5-pointed gold (yellow) stars on a blue field. | |
| 1957–present | Unofficial flag of Benelux | A tricolour, with three horizontal bands of Red, white and blue representing the Netherlands and Luxembourg and a Black box in the middle representing Belgium. With a yellow lion in the centre |
References
[edit ]- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be~nav.html
- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be~nav.html
- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be~1917.html
- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be~ycens.html#:~:text=Belgian%20yacht%20ensign&text=The%20national%20ensign%20to%20be,stripe%20is%20placed%20at%20hoist.
- ^ https://www.fotw.info/flags/be~civ.html
- ^ https://www.fotw.info/flags/be~civ.html
- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/be~nav.html
- ^ https://www.crisp.be/crisp/wp-content/uploads/analyses/2014-07-10_ACL-Istasse_C-2014-fete_de_la_Communaute_flamande.pdf
- ^ https://www.fotw.info/flags/be-vlg.html
- ^ https://www.heraldry-wiki.com//heraldrywiki/index.php?title=West-Vlaanderen
- ^ Official email response from the Greffe of the Province of Luxembourg, May 2, 2018
- ^ a b c d e f ""The flags of the Belgians through history" plate". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022年12月14日.
- ^ "Austrian Netherlands (1713–1786)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022年12月14日.
- ^ https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/cd_prind.html
- ^ "Congo pre-independence – Governors-General flags (1885–1960)". www.crwflags.com. Retrieved 2022年12月14日.
- ^ https://mijn.n-va.be/webwinkel/categorie/product?id=a61b5676-74ef-ef11-9342-000d3a2e21ac
- ^ "QU'EST-CE QUE WALLONIE LIBRE ?". Wallonie Libre (in French).
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