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image byŽeljko Heimer, 23 October 2004
Official Name:Republic of Lithuania(Lietuvos Respublika)
Capital:Vilnius
Location:Baltic Eastern Europe
Government Type:Parliamentary Democracy
Flag adopted:1September 2004 (Originally Adopted 20 March 1989)
Coat of arms adopted:20 September 1991
ISO Code:LT
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On 1st September, 2004 a new law concerning the flag has comeinto force. As a result of this, it has changed the measurementsof the flag - they used to be 1:2, and since 1st September theyare 3:5. Besides, the State flag has been legalized. The stateflag is red and has a national emblem of Lithuania in the centreof it.
Timas Pelanis, 20 October 2004
According to <www.geraldika.ru>, the new flag law of Lithuania (since 1 Sept. 2004) set the flagratio as 3:5 (instead of 1:2). No data about naval ensign andjack.
Jan Zrzavy, 22 October 2004
1. The historical flag of Lithuania (it is the one I calledthe state flag) has been legalized during the First Republic ofLithuania (1918-1940). But the state flag was a three-colour flag(yellow, green and red), as it is now. The historical flag, aswritten in article 2 of Law on The Flag of The Republic ofLithuania and Other Flags, is the historical symbol of the Stateof Lithuania, the red cloth, in the centre of which there isVytis - a silver knight on the white horse, holding a silversword in his right hand over his head. By the left shoulder ofthe knight there is a blue shield with a gold double cross. Thesaddle, saddlecloth and belts are blue. The hilt of the sword,the bridle bit, the stirrup and spur, the metal details of thesheath and horse clothing are gold. Truly, the flag waslegalized, but it is not widely used. The law says the flag ishoisted on historical holidays such as 16th February (Day ofRe-establishment of the State of Lithuania), 11th March (Day ofRe-establishment of Lithuania's Independence), 6th July(Statehood Day), 15th July (Grunwald Battle Day), 25th October(Constitution Day) and by historically significant buildings.
2. The law gives exact proportions for the flag. The article 3 ofthe law says the proportions of the width and lengthof the State flag and the historical flag shall be 3:5. Usually,the flag flown on the buildings, is 1 m wide and 1.7 m long, aswell as the historical flag. The measurements of the State flagand the historical flag can be different, but the ratio of theirwidth and length must always be 3:5. The Law on The Coat of Armsdoes not give any exact proportions for the emblem.
Timas Pelanis, 28 October 2004
See also:Flag Legislation
The protocol manual for theLondon 2012 Olympics(Flags and Anthems ManualLondon 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendationsfor national flag designs. EachNOCwas sent an image of the flag,including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produceda 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs maynot be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly whattheNOCbelieved the flag to be.
For Lithuania: PMS 1235 yellow, 349 green, 180 red. The vertical flag is simplythe horizontal version turned 90 degrees anti-clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
The first of the former SSRs to break decisively with Moscow,Lithuania adopted its old tricolour as its official state flag inMarch 1989. Like the other Baltic states, and indeed, the othercaptive nations of the former USSR, the flag had been used duringLithuania's previous period of independence from Russia - from1918 to 1940. In the flag, yellow stands for grain, green forforests, and red for the blood shed in defense of the nation.
Stuart Notholt
According to the Grossen Flaggenbuch, the first horizontaltriband adopted as Lithuanian national flag after WWI had theproportions 3:2. The current national flag, with proportions 2:1,is therefore not strictly a readoption of the pre-WWII flag.
Ivan Sache, 9 March 1998
From <neris.mii.lt/homepage/flag1.html>:
The state flag of the Republic of Lithuania is cloth consistingof three horizontal stripes: yellow (the upper), green (themiddle) and red (the lower). The colours of the flag arise fromvarious aspects of nature and Lithuanian values. The ratio of thewidth and length of the flag is 1 to 2. In olden times,Lithuanians had many flags. During the Zalgiris battle, the flagof the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was red, with white coat of arms,the Vytis, embroidered on it. The Lithuanian public reneweddiscussion as to what the Lithuanian national flag ought to beonly towards the end of the 19th century. Various combinations oftwo or tree colours prevailing in traditional national dresses(red, yellow, green, white) were used in national flags. Thepresent-day flag and its colours were chosen by a specialcommission (Jonas Basanavicius, Tadas Daugirdas, AntanasZmuidzinavicius) set up by the provisional supreme body of statepower - the Lithuanian Council - of Lithuanian state underrestoration. On April 19, 1918 the Lithuanian Council approvedthe design proposed by the commission. After Lithuania'soccupation and annexation by the Soviet Union, the flag wasplaced under a ban and anyone flying it incurred severepunishment. A great many of these flags appeared at variousrallies held by the Sajudis movement in the summer of 1988. Soonthe flag was legalized: first, recognized as the national andlater as the state flag on November 18, 1988, and on June 26,1991 (the Supreme Council of the Republic of Lithuania law "On the state flag of the Republic of Lithuania").
Dov Gutterman 17 April 1999
Official Lithuanian tricolor is not based on Lithuanianheraldic tradition, but still was legitimized in 1918. ManyLithuanian intellectuals weren't satisfied with thisunexplainable flag with no heraldic tradition and new tricolorproject was offered in February, 1940. This flag was exactly thesame size as existing tricolor, so were lines of colors. Onlycombination was different: white-yellow-red. This combination wasbased on Lithuanian coat-of-arms colors, white - color of figure,red - color of background, yellow - color of details. Suchforming of tricolors on coat-of-arms colors base is rather usual.Legitimization of new tricolor was seriously considered, andprobably would have occured, but Soviet occupation in June, 1940interrupted the proccess.
Giedrius Kiaulakis, 19 January 2001
From Album 2000 [pay00] -National Flag (CSW/C-- 1:2) - Horizontal tricolour ofyellow-over-green-over-red. As is already correctly noted byIvan, modern flag is ratio 1:2, while the pre-WWII one was,according to [neu92] in ratio 2:3.
Željko Heimer, 13 May 2002
Specification of the colors of flag of Lithuania in CMYK are:
Yellow - C0/M30/Y100/K0
Green - C100/M55/Y100/K0
Red - C25/M100/Y100/K0.
Given by Heraldic Comission of Lithuania.
Robertas Jucaitis, 17 January 2003
The dark shade of the green was already in use in 1918.Perhaps is a coming to the roots or they are trying todiferentiate from african countries (where light shades are inuse). In flag Report 14 we can read:
German Ocupation - The territory of Lithuania remained occupiedby German forces during most of the war. There existed a flag inthe Smaller Lithuania (Region of Memel) with the colors green,white and red (casually the Hungarian colors reverted). Thesecolors were also those of a Konigsberg-based Lithuanian studentsassociation since 1829 and other in Tilsit since 1885. TheLithuanians of Russia also adopted this flag during World War I.Togheter with this flag, Jonas Basanavicius proposed to readoptthe traditional flag, red with the white knight. In theConference of San Petersburgo of 1917 Adomas Varnas proposed avariation in the knight who would be endowed with a torch, andwith blue background (perhaps derived from an ancient militaryflag).
Lithuanian Tariba (Council) (Sept. 1917) - The LithuanianNational Council was created in September under the control ofthe Allies and with very little influence in the country. As theLithuanians were using various flags and no one had yet prevailedas the national one, the Council adopted de facto a flag greenover red. On 11 December 1917 the Lithuanian National Councilproclaimed the independence of the country, but the German troopswere still there. In February 1918 Germany allowed theproclamation of independence from Russia but kept the occupationregime.
Lithuania State (February 1918) - A special commission ruled thatthe colors of Lithuania would be yellow, green and red. It wasapproved on 19 April 1918. Initially the shade of red and greenwas very dark, later to turn to a medium shade.
Kingdom of Lituania (July 1918) - In May 1918, after the peacewith Russia (Brest-Litovsk) this country resigned its rights onthe region. Germany agreed to recognize the independence ofLithuania provided that its government would be satisfactory forthe German interest. In July 1918 Germany proposed the creationof an independent Lithuanian state, in the form of a Kingdom,that would be in perpetual alliance with the German Empire. Therewere negotiations with prince William of Urach (of the royaldynasty of Wuttemberg) to be offererd the crown (July) but thepressures of the annexionist groups made the attempt to fail. InNovember, the German defeat supposed the end of the project. TheLithuanian National Council, supported by the Entente, took thepower and established a Constitution in November 1918. on 11November 1918 the national flag was hoisted. No flag differentfrom the one adopted by the National Council was designed for thehypothetical Kingdom of Lithuania.
Jaume Olle', 28 Febuary 2003
FromThe Heraldry of Lithuania, Vol. 1, Vilnius 1998:
"The Lithuanian State (National) Flag
Description - The State flag of the Republic ofLithuania is the national flag. It consists of a cloth which ismade up of three equal horizontal bands: yellow on top, green inthe middle, red on the bottom. The relationship of the width ofthe flag to the length is 1:2.
Overview - Flags have been used as identifying signs sinceancient times. They were most popular in warfare during theMiddle Ages, when even army units were named after their banners.The Lithuanian flag is mentioned for the first time in thechronicles of Vygand of Marburg. He wrote that in 1337, duringthe battle at Bajerburg castle (near Veliuona), Tilman Zumpach,head of the riflemen of the Crusaders, used a flaming lance toburn the Lithuanian flag, before mortally wounding the Duke ofTrakai. But the chronicler did not describe what this flag lookedlike. Much more is known about Lithuania's later flags. In the15th C., J. Dlugosz claimed that Vytautas brought 40 regiments,all carrying red banners, to the Battle of Tannenberg. Thirty ofthe banners were embroidered with an armoured knight holding araised sword and riding a white, black, bay, or dappled horse,while ten bore the embroidered device with which Vytautas brandedhis horses (the Columns of the Gediminas family). According to J.Dlugosz, these banners were named after territories or dukes:Vilnius, Kaunas, Trakai, Medininkai, Zygimantas Kaributas,Semionas Lengvenis, etc. It is thought that the regiments bearingthe Columns of the Gediminas family were brought from theterritories of Vytautas' patrimonial estates (the Trakai Duchy),and those bearing the knight from the other regions of the GrandDuchy of Lithuania. In the Middle Ages the concept of a ruler anda State were one and the same. Thus it is doubtful that we wouldever find Information about the flag of the State of Lithuaniaduring the 15th C., because back then, the Grand Duke representedthe State. A distinction emerged only in the 16th C. From then onone also finds the State flag being mentioned. The first todescribe it was Alexander Guagnini in 1578. The flag of the GrandDuchy of Lithuania was made of red silk and had four points. Itsprincipal side, the one on the right from the flag staff, wascharged with a white mounted knight underneath the ducal crown,and the other with the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary, thepatron of Lithuania. Later only the knight is mentioned as beingembroidered on both sides of the flag. The red flag of the Statewith its white knight survived until the end of the 18th C.
National flags composed of bands appeared later. The Frenchrevolution of 1789, which replaced the royal white flag in use upto that time with the tricolour: red-white-blue (the edge colourslater changed position), was the greatest impetus for theirtransformation. Three equal bands meant the equality of allbefore the law, as did the new slogan:Freedom-Equality-Fraternity, which is used to this day on theemblem of the French Republic. By the 19th C., most EuropeanStates had national tricoloured flags. Normally they werecomposed of the colours of the State coat of arms. Thus theGerman flag is made up of the colours of the black eagle with redtalons and beak on a field of gold: black-red-gold; the Belgianflag, black-yellow-red - bears the colours of the golden lionwith red claws on a field of black. Other states like Denmark andthe Scandinavian countries assigned their old flags the status ofnational flag. The crosses depicted on their flags were thesymbols of the patron saints of those countries.
In Lithuania, which belonged to the Russian Empire from the endof the 18th C., a national movement developed under exceptionallydifficult conditions. Thus flags which aspired to the status of anational flag, first appeared abroad. Perhaps the oldest and mostconstant was the green-white-red flag of Lithuania Minor, knownfrom the 17th C. American Lithuanian associations began to usedouble or tricoloured flags in the second half of the 19th C. Itis known that there were white-blue, white-red-blue,red-yellow-blue flags, and there is mention in 1912 of ared-green-yellow flag, in 1914 of a yellow-green-red one, as wellas other colour combinations. The variety of flags can beexplained by the fact that the groups of Lithuanians were dividedand scattered, with no strong unifying center which couldconsolidate one version. There was merely the idea of a nationalflag.
Discussions in Lithuania re the national flag began at the 1905Lithuanian Congress in Vilnius. J. Basanavicius thought that theflag of the Grand Duchy of the white knight on red -was the most fitting. But the majority of Congress participantsdid not agree, because for them the colour red evoked unwelcomeassociations of revolution. Discussion vis-?-vis the nationalflag was renewed again in 1917, with the opening up of prospectsfor the restoration of sovereignty. At a meeting J. Basanaviciusand Lithuanian public activists decided that the flag's coloursmight be found in ethnic weavings. A. Zmuidzinavicius took on thetask, and subsequently decorated the hall of the Vilnius CityTheatre, which hosted a Lithuanian Conference in September 1917,with small green-red flags. The conference delegates did not likethe two-colour flag A. Zmuidzinavicius had created; they found itfar too gloomy. A special commission made up of J. Basanavicius,A. Zmuidzinavicius and T. Daugirdas was formed to create a flag.They decided to supplement the two colours with yellow. In thebeginning T. Daugirdas suggested inserting a narrow yellow bandbetween the red and green, claiming that such a combination wouldsymbolize the dawn very well. After long argument, on April 19,1918, the commission finally decided that the Lithuanian nationalflag had to be made up of three horizontal bands of equal width:yellow-green-red. Yellow meant the sun, light, and goodness,green symbolized the beauty of nature, freedom, and hope, and redstood for the land, courage, and the blood which had been spilledfor the Homeland. Soon after the Council of Lithuania confirmedthe national flag, and also approved the historical one chargedwith the mounted white knight on one side, and the Columns of theGediminas family on the other. However in 1922, the LithuanianConstitution acknowledged only the tricolour flag, and named itthe State flag. The ancient historical one was not officiallylegalized, but was later used by the President of the Republic.It must be said that before the war there was a great deal ofdiscussion about the colours of the national flag. On May 8,1940, the State Heraldry Commission had even decided to presentthe President with a new project for the flag. Theyellow-green-red was to be replaced by yellow-red-white. Inaddition one side was to be charged with an image of the mountedknight, and the other with the Columns of the Gedminas family.The colours were taken from the coat of arms created in 1934. Butfurther decisions were suspended by political changes.
On September 27, 1940 after the Soviets occupied Lithuania, thePresidium of the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSR replacedthe tricolour with a red flag. The canton was charged with thegolden inscription "Lithuanian SSR" above a goldenhammer and sickle. In 1950 Moscow ordered every republic tomanufacture tricoloured flags, whose upper half was to be red,and whose lower half could be of their own choosing. On July 15,1953 the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Lithuanian SSRconfirmed a new red-white-green flag. Its upper red band took uptwo-thirds (or eight-twelfths) of the cloth, the middle whiteband one-twelfth, and the bottom green three-twelfths. This flagwas used until 1988. By the summer of 1988 the old tricolour hadbegun to fly during events held by Lithuania's Sajudis and otherpublic organizations. It was officially hoisted on GediminasCastle Tower in Vilnius for the first time after the war, at10:00 on October 7, 1988. On November 18 at the tenth session ofits eleventh convention, the Supreme Council of the LithuanianSSR was forced to change a chapter of the Constitution, and togrant the yellow-red-green flag the status of State flag. Thecolours of the flag (yellow approximating orange, a rich green,and red approximating purple) were recreated according to flagsof the Independent Republic of Lithuania which had been preservedby museums and private individuals. It was confirmed by thePresidium of the Supreme Council on January 25 1989."
Anon., 24 June 2003
"Das Gebiet des Oberbefehlshabers Ost, Ober Ost or Ob. Ost" (English:The Area of the Commander-in-Chief East, Upper East, or Up. East),also known as "Militärverwaltungsgebiet Ober Ost" (English: Upper EastMilitary Region) was the German occupation area on the Eastern Frontof the First World War administered by the General Staff of theCommander-in-Chief East from November 1915 to July 1918."Also, as already mentioned, the lack of a unified policy towards theseoccupied territories (some were expecting to simply extract naturalsources, while other sought the formation of a governing elite, alliedminor Republics, etc), gave way to the resurgence of the independentmovement.Sources: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ober_Ost ,https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostfront_(Erster_Weltkrieg) andhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Lithuania_(1918)Well, this source, Seimas (https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=38111&p_k=2 ), the country'sunicameral Parliament, gives the following (translated from theoriginal in Lithuanian): "National striped flags emerged rather latein history. The greatest impetus for the development of striped flagswas made by the French Revolution in 1789, when the previously usedroyal white flag was replaced with a tricolour flag. Three equalstripes of the flag meant universal equality before law. In the 19thcentury, the majority of European countries had their nationaltricolour flags, whose colours normally stemmed from the colours ofthe national coat of arms.The history of the Lithuanian tricolour flag is long and complicated.Incorporation in the Russian Empire prevented Lithuania fromconsidering the design of a national flag for a long period of time.Nevertheless, in the second half of the 19th century, the design ofcolours symbolising Lithuania were being developed by vast Lithuaniancommunities in emigration in the USA and Lithuanians who had remainedin the Russian Empire. Meanwhile, the known flag of Lithuania Minorsince the 17th century was green, white and red. The discussions onthe design of the national flag in Lithuania began in the Great Seimasof Vilnius in 1905. Jonas Basanavičius proposed recognising the flagof the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (a white knight against the redbackground) as the Lithuanian flag. However, the proposal was rejecteddue to negative connotations with the revolution at that time. Seriousdiscussions on the national flag resumed in 1917 only when a prospectof re-establishing the Lithuanian state emerged. Lithuanian publicfigures, with Jonas Basanavičius in the forefront, had a debate anddecided to use national colours to design the flag of Lithuania. Inpreparation for the Vilnius Conference, painter AntanasŽmuidzinavičius made a green and red design of the Lithuanian flag.This flag was used to decorate the hall of the Vilnius city theatre,which hosted the Conference. The two colours were chosen because oftheir prevalence in the national costume and sashes. This design ofthe flag was endorsed by Lithuanians living in the USA. However, theparticipants of the Conference considered the flag proposed byŽmuidzinavičius to be gloomy. During the Conference, another design ofthe Lithuanian flag was made. The author of the design was TadasDaugirdas, an archaeologist and expert of heraldry. He proposedincluding a thin yellow stripe between green and red to make the flaglivelier and yellow to symbolise the dawn. The Conference failed todecide on the flag and instructed a commission established by theCouncil of Lithuania to address the matter. The members of thecommission comprised Jonas Basanavičius, Antanas Žmuidzinavičius andTadas Daugirdas. The commission decided to complement the design ofthe flag by Žmuidzinavičius with a yellow stripe. On 19 April 1918,the commission approved the design of the flag consisting of threeequal horizontal stripes of yellow, green and red. In 1918 the Councilof Lithuania approved this design as an interim national flag ofLithuania. Gradually, this design was accepted by the nation. TheCouncil of Lithuania also approved the historical flag featuring awhite knight against the red background on the front side and theColumns of the Gediminids on the reverse. The historical flag was usedby the President of the Republic of Lithuania. The first permanentConstitution of the Lithuanian State of 1922 and the Constitution ofthe Republic of Lithuania of 1928 legalised only one national flag ofyellow, green and red. In the Constitution of the Republic ofLithuania of 1938, the tricolour flag was referred to as the flag ofthe Lithuanian nation. The debate on the national flag of Lithuaniacontinued until World War II, since the combination of yellow, greenand red was inappropriate from the standpoint of heraldry. Two newdesigns of the tricolour flag were made. In May 1940, the Commissionfor the Establishment of the National Coat of Arms decided to submit anew design of the flag to the President of the Republic consisting ofyellow, red and white stripes with a centred knight on the front sideand the Columns of the Gediminids on the reverse. However, furtherdiscussions were interrupted by the Soviet occupation in 1940.When the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania on 15 June 1940, all thesymbols of statehood were banned. The use of such symbols was strictlypunishable until the very period of National Revival. In 1940, thePresidium of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Socialist Republic ofLithuania replaced the national tricolour flag with a red flag with agolden hammer and sickle in the left corner. In 1953 the latter wasreplaced with a red, white and green flag with a hammer and sickle inthe left corner. Nevertheless, the tricolour flag of the independentLithuania did not fall into oblivion. It was secretly hoisted inpublic on the occasion of 16 February, secretly kept in the homes ofLithuanians and used to express resistance.The tricolour flag of the independent Lithuania was officially broughtback to public life with the beginning of perestroika in the SovietUnion and the National Revival. In summer 1988, the Lithuaniantricolour flag fluttered during the meetings of the Reform MovementSąjūdis and at other events. On 7 October 1988, the tricolour flag wasfor the first time hoisted on the top of the Gediminas Tower as animportant historical symbol of the nation. On 18 November 1988, theSupreme Council of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Lithuania, underpublic pressure, was forced to confer the tricolour flag the status ofthe national flag. The colour standard and new proportions of the flagwere approved by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the SovietSocialist Republic of Lithuania on 25 January 1989. The colours of theflag (yellow, close to orange, intensely green and red, close topurple) were reproduced according to the flags of the independentRepublic of Lithuania preserved by museums and private persons. "References:- Lietuvos heraldika, sudarė Rimša Edmundas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2008.- Lietuvos heraldika, t. 1, sudarė Rimša Edmundas, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 1998.- Lietuvos Respublikos Konstitucija (Lietuvos Respublikos piliečiųpriimta 1992 m. spalio 25 d. referendume, 1992 m. lapkričio 2 d.),Lietuvos Respublikos Seimas,https://www.lrs.lt/home/Konstitucija/Konstitucija.htm- Lietuvos Respublikos valstybės herbo, kitų herbų ir herbinių ženklųįstatymas, Vilnius, 1990 m. balandžio 10 d., Nr. I-130, (galiojantisuvestinė redakcija nuo 2020-07-01), Teisės aktų registras,https://www.e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.55B9E4E382B3/asr- Lietuvos Respublikos valstybės vėliavos ir kitų vėliavų įstatymas,Vilnius, 1991 m. birželio 26 d., Nr. I-1497 (galiojanti suvestinėredakcija: 2019-10-01), Teisės aktų registras,https://www.e-tar.lt/portal/lt/legalAct/TAR.07CAE5E6C2B3/asr- Rimša Edmundas. Heraldika. Iš praeities į dabartį, Vilnius: Versusaureus, 2004.- Rimša, Edmundas. Lietuvos valstybės vėliava, Visuotinė lietuviųenciklopedija, 2019-10-23,https://www.vle.lt/Straipsnis/Lietuvos-valstybes-veliava-117757- Vasys, Antanas. Herbas ir vėliava, Lietuvių enciklopedija, t. 15,Bostonas: Lietuvių enciklopedijos leidykla, p. 65–69.The first "modern" approach for the adoption of a country flag datesas far back as the Great Seimas of Vilnius (December 4-5, 1905) whereits President Jonas Basanavičius proposed the adoption of a flag.Sources: https://geraldika.ru/article/32887 andhttp://www.vexillographia.ru/litva/gosflag.htmAdditionally, judging from the first paragraph on the Parliament'sofficial website, a landmark event such as the "Vilniaus konferencija"(English: Vilnius Conference) (September 18-22, 1917, which by the wayis important to highlight that was an authorized event since thecountry was still occupied by the Germans) sets the tone fordiscussions on the flag and after several designs, "Gradually, thisdesign was accepted by the nation" (as the same source points out).Source: https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilniaus_konferencijaFor further information please see:- "Lithuanian flags" https://geraldika.ru/article/32887 (includesadditional flag ilustrations and comments).- "Republic of Lithuania" (by Victor Lomantsov)http://www.vexillographia.ru/litva/gosflag.htm (includes additionalflag ilustrations and comments).
Esteban Rivera, 6 June 2023
The only thing I have on the colours of the Lithuanian flagthat is official is a protocol issued by the Lithuanian StandardsBoard on 26 March 1996 which gave them according to SwedishStandard SS 01 91 02 (Colour Atlas) Edition 2, 1989 as Yellow01080-Y10R, Green 5050-G and Red 1090-R.
Christopher Southworth, 27 September
According to a2007 document issued by theGovernment of Lithuania, the colors have been updated to the following values:Gold:C0 M30 Y100 K0Pantone 1235R253 G185 B19Hex #FDB913 / Green:C100 M55 Y100 K0Pantone 349R0 G106 B68Hex #006A44 / Red:C25 Y100 M100 K0Pantone 180R193 G39 B45Hex #C1272D
Zachary Harden, 20 September 2023
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image byŽeljko Heimer, 13 May 2002
image byŽeljko Heimer, 13 May 2002
The following was written by Reuters at <news.excite.com>:
Prime Minister Faces Fine for Failing to Fly Flag (Updated 11:24AM ET February 26, 2001).
VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuanian Premier Rolandas Paksas could befined for failing to fly the country's flag at his home onSaturday to mark nearby Estonia's independence day, the dailyRespublika said. The paper said Paksas faced a fine of up to $50.His office declined to comment. Homeowners in all three Balticstates are obliged to fly their national flags on the Latvian,Lithuanian and Estonian independence days.
Michael P. Smuda, 26 Febuary 2001
At St Michael the Archangel (built as an Orthodox church end19C and eventually a Catholic one) in Kaunas, I saw:
Left of the altar (to the altar's own right): aVaticanbicolour, yellow above white i.e. horizontal stripes. Rightof the altar (to the altar's own left): the national flag.
This was the only church were I saw this kind of arrangement, atleast of the many a tourist is supposed to see. However,after restauration Vilnius cathedral may well (re?)introducesomething similar.
Jan Mertens, 15 August 2003
A while back, I noticed a picture of a group of Lithuanianpeople gathering for what, I don't remember. What I do rememberis the flag that was present. It was the Lithuanian tri- color,but, in the upper left corner there was a black double cross. Doyou know of this flag and its meaning?
Tim Plonis, 1 September 1999