The flag of

Republika Srpska Republika Srpska ( sr-Cyrl, Република Српска, lit=Serb Republic, also known as Republic of Srpska, ) is one of the two Political divisions of Bosnia and Herzegovina, entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Feder ...

within

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was adopted on 24 November 1992. The flag is a rectangular tricolor with three equal horizontal bands of red, blue and white.Flag of Republika Srpska
crwflags.com It is almost identical to the

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, but with different aspect ratio of 1:2 instead of 2:3 and slightly different color shades.The flag is the same used at the

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While the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina declared the

coat of arms of Republika Srpska The Seal of Republika Srpska with the description: the flag of Republika Srpska and the Cyrillic letters "РС" ("RS"), the red-blue-white tricolor are in the center of the seal, twisted with the golden Oak leaves, a traditional pre-Christian symbo ...

unconstitutional, claiming that it did not represent the non-Serb ethnicities living in the entity, the flag was deemed to be in line with the

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. The court ruled that though the combination of the colors relates to the Serbian tricolor, the use of red, blue and white are considered to be

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as well.

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The Serb tricolor has been used as the basis for other flags, most notably as

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's national flag.

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has also used the Serbian tricolor with varying shades of blue. Under

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, the republics of Serbia and Montenegro had flags of same design and colors. Montenegro changed its flag in 1993 by altering the proportion and shade of blue in its flag and used this flag until 2004. The Serbian tricolor was also the basis for the

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. The Serbian tricolor defaced with a

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is used as the flag of the

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. The Republika Srpska's flag is popular among many

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and they prefer to fly it or the

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instead of the Bosnian national flag.

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