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Austria’s Flag

The flag that represents Austria is red and white and has historical meaning. Austria’s flag is red and white, and was adopted in 1230. The colors of the flag were inspired from a legend about Duke Leopold IV of Austria. He fought in battle during the Crusades and he was very injured, full of blood, but under his clothing beneath were white with not a drop of blood. Although that was a legend, the colors of the flag also mean something more in today’s time. Today, the two colors of the flag represent peace and honesty for the people of Austria. The flag of Austria also resembles the flag of French Polynesia, the flag of Lebanon, and the flag of Latvia and the flag of Peru. Since the beginning of the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the Austrian Navy used a Naval Design based on the red-white-red colors, but also used a shield of similar colors. This was black and yellow. Both of these flags became extinct and not used with Austria-Hungary's dissolution in 1918, and Austria adopted the red-white-red triband as its national flag. Also, Since the days of Rudolph of Habsburg and the 1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden, the combination of red-white-red was widely considered to be the Austrian colors used by the ruling Habsburg dynasty.