(Initially published in http://www.romania-report.ro/ - Jun 26, 2005)
Bucharest, June 26 – Romanian MoD together Bucharest Prefecture organised a military ceremony to celebrate National Flag Day.
During the event in 'National Flag' Sq., a Romanian consecrated banner was raised on top of the mast and united MoD and MoIA choirs sang the National Anthem and military music.
There were present representatives of civilian, military and religious organisations, foreign military attachés in Bucharest, war veterans.
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This day in Romanian history:
On June 26, 1848 – The revolutionary provisional government in Walachia gave the National Flag decree. According to this decree, the flag was set in three colours (i.e. blue, yellow and red) while having the "Justice and Brotherhood" slogan inscribed in the middle.
About the Romanian National Flag: Whitney Smith (Flags and Arms across the World - McGraw-Hill Book Company UK Ltd.) mentions that the first tricolours were allowed in 1834 by the Ottoman sultan, that in 1848 the tricolour (but not in current in "French" pattern) was popularized and finally officially adopted in 1859. The tricolour has been used since as national flag, war ensign (also state flag) with coat of arms, and the vertical version was adopted in 1866.
After WWII, in 1948 all the variants of the flag (civil, state, military) were defaced with the emblem ("coat of arms") that was changed several times and finally cut out (literally) and plain tricolour was re-established in 1989.
The Constitution of Romania, adopted on 21 November 1991, effective on 8 December 1991, says: Title I: General Principles, Article 12. National Emblems, 1. The flag of Romania is tricolour; the colours are arranged vertically in the following order from the mast: blue, yellow, red.
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