Talk:Flag of Bulgaria

I am afraid I cannot find a PNG of the Bulgarian flag :( Please excuse me for this.

webkid 13:00 15 Jul 2003 (UTC)

Section about former flag with coat of arms is describing a flag with communistic coat of arms, but we can see picture with different crest. Could someone send the picture of the communistic flag as well -- Obradović Goran (ta^lk 00:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)Reply

According to an old edition of Phillip's Flags of the world, the purpose for Bulgaria adopting Green in place of Blue was that the white/blue/red vertical sequence was already in use as regional flags for Slovenes and Slovaks (although the two were yet to become independent states). Is there any truth in this? Evlekis 22 June 2006

The version I have heard is that the colors of the Italian flag were chosen, reflecting participation of Bulgarian revolutionaries in Garibaldi's troops. —141.150.24.236 (talk) 01:55, 5 October 2009 (UTC)Reply

The pictures Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1878-1944).svg and Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1946-1967).svg are incorrect. The first one is Bulgarian WAR flag. The secong is nonsense there isn't such bulgarian coat. After liberation in 1878 of Bulgaria until 1946 the flag was like current (without coat). In first bulgarian constitution is writed clearly "Българското народно знаме е трицвѣтно и състои отъ бѣлъ, зеленъ и червенъ цвѣтове, поставени хоризонтално" - "Bulgarian national flag is a tricolour and is consisted by white, green and red colours, laid horizontal". --Scroch 23:53, 16 August 2007 (UTC)Reply

wasn't created and consecrated as "Bulgarian national flag", it was a kind of war flag of the Bulgarian volunteer corps during the Liberation war 1877-1878. It wasn't perceived and defined as "national flag" by the Bulgarians in this period. (By the way, it was only one of the types of the war flags of the Bulgarian volunteers.) I have to assert that the present passage in the article, which claims that the Samara flag was direct predecessor of the later Bulgarian national white-green-red tricolour, is totally wrong in one more aspect. In the article it is written:

• Some early versions of the flag (such as the Samara flag) used the Pan-Slavic colours, which were derived from the Pan-Slavism of 19th-century Europe. The central band was blue, and so the flag was similar to the flag of Russia. However after the liberational Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878), the central band was replaced with green...

In fact the central band of the Samara flag wasn't blue! Actually the Samara flag was red-white-blue:

 

Moreover, its composition, colours and elements (central cross-shaped icon for example) weren't inspiration for the creation of the Bulgarian national flag such as it appeared according to the Tarnovo Constitution. I have to say also that in the period around the Liberation war the official Russian imperial flag wasn't white-blue-red tricolour, so it wasn't prototype of the Bulgarian national flag. The flag of the Russian Empire between 1858 and 1883 actually was:

 

The white-blue-red tricolour during this period was used as popular Russian people's flag only unoficially. It was restored as Russian imperial flag five years after the Liberation war and four years after the Tarnovo Consitution. (See article Flag of Russia and especially its version in the Russian Wikipedia.)

There isn't relevant information that the pattern of the Samara flag was reproduced as Bulgarian national flag after the Liberation war, so I can't accept that the Samara flag could be defined as "Bulgarian national flag" or as direct predecessor of the Bulgarian national flag at all.

Therefore, dear Laveol, be more kind toward my editings when I'm trying to erase obviously wrong information. Greetings from Jackanapes/Dimitar Navorski, Vulgarian 11:22, 1 October 2007 (UTC)Reply

This flag (Image:Flag of Bulgaria (1946-1967).svg) is absurd with East German style coat. Please don't make such nonsenses in Wikipedia --Scroch (talk) 21:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)Reply

What is the meaning of colors in the flags?????? --Adikhebat (talk) 15:36, 14 August 2010 (UTC)Reply

Some of the image files are clearly wrong. Please see here for discussion. Thanks! BigSteve (talk) 13:53, 6 October 2012 (UTC)Reply

There is no section in the article which covers the 1944-1946 Homeland Front flag. Should it be added for completion?
 
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I added a link to the country of Bulgaria itself, because I was surprised such a link did not exist anywhere on the page.

To my astonishment, that revision was undone due to "overlinking." Surely, if any link deserves to be on the page for a country's flag, it's the country itself. I have never encountered a flag page that does not.

Request to return the brackets around the word "Bulgaria." Proctris (talk) 13:17, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I have not encountered a flag page that links to a country in boldface. MOS:BOLDLINKAVOID advises against that practice, even though that was not the reason you were reverted. StephenMacky1 (talk) 13:48, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

I pulled up a handful of flag pages at random and it looks like we're somewhat inconsistent on this, unfortunately.

• Some use the first non-bolded instance of the country for the link; e.g. Indonesia and Rep. of the Congo

• Some do link the bold text; e.g. Burundi and Egypt

• Some don't use bold text at all; e.g. India and Liechtenstein

• Incidentally, I did find another flag page that does not link to its country: Guatemala

Proctris (talk) 19:13, 3 September 2024 (UTC)Reply

It is now linked. But do keep in mind WP:BOLDLINK. I've also removed the bold per WP:BOLDITIS. 192.254.92.90 (talk) 11:57, 29 September 2024 (UTC)Reply