Bulgarian National Flag

During the Bulgarian over one-thousand-year history the national flag has passed a lot of transformations from the horsetail to its current appearance. The present national flag of the Republic of Bulgaria represents a rectangle in three colors: white, green, and red, positioned horizontally from the top downwards. The color fields are of the same form and equal size. The first white-green-and red flag was used in 1861-1862 by the Bulgarian military detachment formed in Serbia by the revolutionary G. S. Rakovski. The first flag was handmade by the girl Stiliana Paraskevova and given to the Bulgarian volunteers taking part in the Russian-Turkish war. The white color symbolizes peace and the ideal for fair and sacred republic, the green color – Bulgarian lands’ fruitfulness and the forest – protector of Bulgarian rebels in the Revival, and the red color is the courage and hope of the people. All through these years, no matter what the Bulgarian flag looked like, a Bulgarian flag has never been captured nor is exposed in foreign museum.