Flag of Bratislava

The Flag of Bratislava a horizontal tricolour of red, white and blue; charged with a dark red iron cross in the center, it has the common colors of the Slavic nations: Red, Blue and white. The Flag of Bratislava was adpoted in June 5 1992, when the Constitution of Bratislava was created.

History
The Flag of Bratislava has been changed during the years, in 1487, when the first Bratislavan flag was made, it was different that the current Bratislavan flag, it had a white background and a blue cross. In 1500, the Hungarian Kingdom Flag was used as the official flag of The Slovak-Hungarian Commonwealth which controlled Bratislavan Lands, due to the leader being Hungarian this period, if the leader was Hungarian, the Hungarian Kingdom flag was the national flag of the commonwealth, if the leader was Slovak/Bratislavan the 1487 Bratislavan Flag would be used.

In 1550, the Flag of Bratislava changed from 'The Blue Cross' to a flag divided diagonally from the lower hoist-side corner, the upper triangle was red and the lower one was blue, and it has a black Iron cross in the center of the flag, the flag's grid size is 12:12 normally, it was desgined by Marian Alexander in 1547 and it became the flag of Bratislava in 1550.After 200 years, in 1750, the flag was changed for the 3rd time to a horizontal tricolour of white, red and blue, and it had 2 black horizontal lines in the top and bottom of the flag, the code name of the flag was 'BlackLine2' as the flag had 2 black lines, and its official name was 'The Black Lined Flag'.

In 1800, when Austria-Hungary took over Bratislava, the flag of the Bratislava province was the 1500 flag, the Austro-Hungarians had banned the 1750 flag due to unknown reasons, in 1914, when Austria Hungary was dissolved, it was dissolved to Austria, Bratislava and other countries, Bratislava's flag became the 1750 flag, in 1920, it changed the flag to it's current state, however, in 1940, when the Nazis conquered Bratislava, the 1750 flag was banned once again, and a new flag was made.

Design
The flag of Bratislava's design is an horizontal red-white-blue tricolor with an dark red iron cross in the center, the red represents the blood of Bratislavan heroes that died for the nation, white is for the peace of Bratislava, and the blue is for the sky and water of the country.