Estonia Flag

The republic of Estonia is located in Northern Europe, bordered by Russian, Latvia, the Gulf of Finland, and the Baltic Sea. The largest city and capital of Estonia is Tallinn and their official language is Estonian.

The national Estonian flag is a horizontal tricolor flag, which features three equal bands of color. The three Estonia flag colors are blue, black and white. On the Estonia flag, the strip on the top third is blue. The middle stripe on the flag of Estonia is black and the bottom strip on the flag Estonia is white. In an Estonia flag picture, the white on the Estonia flag symbolizes freedom, hope, and virtue. Blue represents the lakes, sea, sky, and devotion, loyalty and faith. Black on the flag of Estonia stands for the Estonia peoples suffering and their dark past.

In the 1880s, the Estonian flag became important at the University of Tartu as the Estonian Students Society’s flag. On June 4, 1884, in the Pastorate of Otepää hall, they consecrated this flag. In the Estonian National Museum is the preserved original flag. Associated with Estonian nationalism, on February 24, 1918, when Estonia became an independent nation, they used this as their national Estonia flag. On November 21, 1819, they officially adopted this Estonia flag.

In June 1940, when the Soviet Union invaded Estonia, they banned the flag of Estonia. Still formally independent, they removed the Estonian flag in Tallinn on June 21, 1940, from the tower of Pikk Hermann, which was the most symbolic flag location. The following day they hoisted both the red flag and the Estonia flag. On July 27, 1940, they removed the tricolor Estonia flag again from the tower and the flag of Estonian SSR replaced it. This flag flew until September 1944 when Germany retreated from Tallinn and the flag of Estonia flew again. Although Estonia had accepted the Estonian SSR flag as their ethnic flag, they never considered this their national flag.

On September 22 during the second soviet occupation of Estonia when the red army arrived, the tricolor Estonia flag remained flying but they added the red flag and shortly after, the tricolor Estonia flag disappeared once again. It was illegal in Estonia to fly the blue, black, and white Estonian flag until the late 1980s. It was not until August 7, 1990 that the tricolor flag of Estonia became their national flag.