Moldova Flag

The flag of Moldova has three equal-sized vertical stripes. The left stripe is blue. The middle stripe is yellow. The right stripe is red. In the center of the yellow stripe and the flag is the country's coat of arms, which has an eagle with the red and blue horizontally divided shield of Moldova on its chest. The shield contains various traditional emblems, such as a star, a rose, and a crescent, surrounding a stylized aurochs, which are European bison head.

The Moldovan flag was made similar to the Romanian national flag and symbolizes Moldova's shared heritage with Romania. The blue represents Transylvania. The yellow represents Wallachia. The red represents Moldavia. The coat of arms has the eagle of Walachia holding an Orthodox Christian cross in its beak and an olive branch in one talon, with the scepter of Michael the Brave of Walachia in the other. The eagle represents the Byzantine Empire. The symbols on the shield represent traditional symbols of the historic medieval principality of Moldavia. Walachia is a historic region of Eastern Europe.

The Moldova flag was enacted on May 12, 1990. Moldova was granted independence from the Soviet Union on August 27, 1991. Romania/Moldova flags were first enacted in the three colors during the revolutions of 1848 which drew their ideas from the French revolution. Moldova was a part of Romania until the Second World War, and the Moldovan coat of arms is the only difference between the flag of Moldovan flags and the Romanian flag. This flag can be flown both nationally and civilly by its citizens.

Moldavia was a part of the Roman province of Dacia. In the fourteenth century, Moldavia became an independent province ruled by Vlachs. Their lands included Bessarabia and Bukovina. In 1504 the Turks captured Moldavia, and it was still a part of the Ottoman Empire until the nineteenth century. In 1859, Moldavia and Wallachia united and formed Romania. In 1924, the Soviet republic of Moldavia formed. In 1991, after the Soviet Union collapse, Moldavia became the independent republic of Moldova. Some Moldovans want to reunite with Romania, while Ukrainians and Russians east of the Rive Dniester asserted their independence as the Transdniester Republic.

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