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	Pan-Slavic colors
		The Pan-Slavic colors, red, blue and white, are colors used on the flags of most Slavic states and peoples.
		The flag of Bulgaria also originated from the same Pan-Slavic colors, but the blue was replaced with green, because Bulgaria was developed as agricultural country after its independence in 1878.
		These three colors are, without the same symbolism, also used on the flags of many non-Slavic nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pan-Slavic_colors

	Pan-slavene colours
		They also often add additional colors or change one of the colors to one that is similar and more in keeping with their own traditions.
		Each of these exceptions uses either two of the colors or a variation on one of them, yellow is similar to white and green is similar to blue.
		With all due respect to a much esteemed colleague of the vexophilic list, I must point out that Hungary is in fact not a slavic nation, in spite of the outcome of the war in 1919.
	www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/FOTW/flags/yu-pan.html

	Flag
		The flag of Russia, the source for the Pan-Slavic colors adopted by many Slavic states and peoples as their symbols.
		The Pan-Arab colors, green, white, red, and black, seen on the flags of Jordan, Kuwait, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, and the United Arab Emirates.
		Especially before radio, ships at sea could send messages by sending letters flags up, spelling out words which could be read by the different colors and designs of each flag.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/flag

	Mythology's Mything Links: Eastern Europe / Pan Slavic Traditions & Beliefs
		Although the psychologically rich story is Czech, not Pan Slavic, it reads like something that could have taken place in many ancient Slavic realms.
		Mythology's Mything Links: Eastern Europe / Pan Slavic Traditions and Beliefs
		Slavic mythology has a strong focus on the sun, warmth, light, birds, fire (and firebirds), epic victories, and brightly painted cosmic bird-eggs.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~east~panSlavic.html

	Pan-Slavism
		Following World War I, the Pan-Slavic movement was, to an extent, successful.
		What Metternich feared most was the collapse of the Austrian Empire under a united slavic uprising, especially since Austria had inherited a massive slavic population over the centuries.
		The idea of unity of the Slavic people is all but gone in the post-Communist era.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/p/pan-Slavism.htm

	About Slavija
		Slavic nationalism is the natural extension and companion to ethnic Slavic nationalisms (Russian, Polish, Serbian, etc) because it above all emphasizes self-determinations of Slavs, the importance of our unique traditional culture, and the worth of the Slavic people as a race.
		We are not exactly a pan-Slavic organization, however Slavic nationalism has been deeply influenced by pan-Slavic philosophies, therefore we show our relation to pan-Slavinism by using a lipa leaf as one of our symbols.
		In the same way we recognize blue, white, and red to be Slavic colors and respectively use the Slavic flag as one of our symbols.
	www.nationalism.org /slavic/about.htm

	EUROPE: Eastern Europe / The Baltic States: Latvia
		Your eyes will need to handle red text against a black background, however -- if that's a problem for you (as it is for me), you may need to override the site's colors or else print it out.
		Many colorful clickable photos will be found among these pages on national costumes, castles, gardens, monuments, churches, civic buildings, streets, and more.
		This illustrated site is an intriguing prose translation of an epic poem, "The Bear Slayer," set in pagan Latvia 800 years ago and written by Andrejs Pumpurs (1841-1902), a contemporary of many of the great early folklorists of Europe.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~east~baltics~Latvia.html

	Production First Software Encyclopedia of Typography and Electronic Communication : P
		The use of process colors must take into account and depends on the effect of the background color (which is usually white when printing on most papers), because using process colors is a purely subtractive technique, and they are sometimes termed « subtractive primary colors.
		However, if a number of fundamentally different alphabets are drawn from the font (say, Cyrillic, Greek, and Roman variations), or if the groups of languages are fundamentally different (Indo-European Romance, Indo-European Scandanavian, Indo-European Slavic), much less optimization is possible when letterforms are shared.
		A third system of color reproduction is the Land method (discovered by Dr. Edwin H. Land, inventor of the Polaroid camera system), which can be considered to use a monochrome image and one process color which is formulated to work along with the color correction attribute built into the human eye and brain.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/profirst/p.htm

	Records International Catalogue August 1998
		Marguste's solo organ works have a striking, colorful personality which seems to adopt certain qualities of color and rhythm from Messiaen and Janacek (especially in the Frescoes of 1991, which depict symbolic qualities of colors and whose third "Blue" deals with the vault of heaven and birdsong).
		Completed in 1939 and premiered during the Nazi occupation in 1942, Françaix evokes an atmosphere of miracle and of religious ecstasy in the fluid orchestral colors, sweet cantilenas and choral psalmody of the music of heaven.
		For those not yet acquainted with Grainger's remarkable way of transmuting folk-song into weird, wonderful, colorful, poignant, fascinatingly personal statements, this budget-priced Naxos collection is a perfect place to start, containing such familiar items as Irish Tune from County Derry ("Danny Boy") and Shepherd's Hey to less well-known but equally inviting pieces.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogAug98.html

	Seyla Benhabib: Unholy Politics
		People of all races, colors, ethnicities and tongues could convert to Islam and become “good Muslims.” It is this option of conversion which has made Islam into the biggest Abrahamanic religion of the world, and ironically, it is the very absence of this conversion mission that is striking in the new jihad.
		The category of the terrorist as an “internal enemy,” as one who is among us, even if not one of us, strains the democratic community by revealing that the rule of law is not all-inclusive and that violence lurks at the edges of everyday normalcy.
		We may be at a point in history when indeed the state-centric system is waning: global terrorism and the formation of a global economy and civil society are part of the same maelstrom.
	www.ssrc.org /sept11/essays/benhabib.htm

	Yugoslavia
		The red, white and blue are pan-Slavic colors.
		In 1848, these colors were adopted by the pan-slavic Congress as pan-Slav colors.
		The pattern has been repeated in many of the flags of Slavic nations and regions, in some instances with minor variations to the horizontal stripes and, in some cases, the colors as well.
	www.z6.com /z6files/z6files/FOTW/flags/yu.html

	Reference List
		The New York Times National "Teaching Children to Read: Politics Colors Debate Over Methods" Sunday May 11, 1997.
		Synesthesia – A sensation produced in one modality when a stimulus is applied to another modality, as when the hearing of a certain sound induces the visualization of a certain color.
	www.multi-faceta.com /reference.html

	Tales From The Tone Lounge; Vintage Tube Boxes
		The pan-Slavic euphoria reflected itself in a desire to name this new cartel after an extraordinary scientist of Slavic origin, and the genius of Nikola Tesla (a Serbian) was clearly the first choice.
		It is an interesting little tube, in that it has a 'Chinese' looking getter, and the tube designation is in a very odd pale gray color, almost unreadable, even though the tube is new.
		The tube designation number is almost always silkscreened in a stencil style, and in a pale gray coloring.
	www.tone-lizard.com /Vintage_Tube_Boxes.htm

	Pan-African colours: Encyclopedia topic
		Pan-Slavic colors (Pan-Slavic colors: the pan-slavic colours, red, blue and white, are colours used on the flags of...
		Two sets of three colors are referred to as the Pan-African colors.
		The updated page can be found at: pan-african colours
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/pan-african_colours (618 words)

	Czech Republic
		The choice of blue meant that the colors of the flag were now red-white-blue, which in the nineteenth century were considered "traditional Slavic" colors and had been adopted by most pan-Slavic oriented movements (including the Czech Sokol movement) during that time.
		Actually as far as I know there is no convincing evidence of their being particularly "traditionally Slavic" before the Russians under Peter the Great began using a red-white-blue banner, which probably came from the flag of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, whose shipbuilding and naval prowess Peter greatly admired.
		The Czechoslovak State Flag is a white-red field with the red colour in the bottom, which is in fact the Czech Flag and a blue threeangle, which had been added as the Slovak part of the complete flag.
	fotw.vexillum.com /flags/cz.html (1649 words)

	Flag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The flag of Russia, the source for the Pan-Slavic colors adopted by many Slavic states and peoples as their symbols.
		The flag of Switzerland, with its colours reversed, gave rise to the emblem of the International Red Cross, which under international law is a safe conduct in war zones.
		The most popular colour combinations are: red, white, and blue (mainly European and Western nations) and red, yellow, and green (mainly African nations) The Olympic rings - blue, yellow, black, green and red represent colours used at least once in every national flag around the world.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flag (3027 words)

	Flags of Serbia and Montenegro
		The flag of Serbia and Montenegro is a tricolour flag consisting of three equal horisontal fields, blue on the top, white in the middle and red on the bottom (these three colours are often called the Pan-Slavic colors as they contribute to most of the flags belonging to Slavic states).
		Eventually a compromise was found; a new tricolour flag would be made with the colour of the blue stripe exactly halfway between the Serbian dark blue, and the light blue of Montenegro.
		The Flag of Serbia appears as a reflection of the Flag of Russia and, apparently, this is not an accident.
	www.samnet.org.uk /Country/samflags.html (376 words)

	Flag of Russia
		He based Russia's flag on the flag of the Netherlands, making it a tricolour with three equal horizontal fields, but he chose Russian colors for it (the flag of the Netherlands at that time was orange, white and blue, with no red).
		The new colours came from the coat of arms of the Duchy of Moscow, which depict Saint George wearing white armour, riding a white horse, wearing a blue cape and holding a blue shield, on red field.
		This story, while widely circulated, is certainly a myth, as a flag book of 1695 (predating Peter's trip to Western Europe) already describes flags of a similar design belonging to the Tsar of Muscovy.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/f/fl/flag_of_russia.html (357 words)

	Serbia and Montenegro
		The pattern has been repeated in many of the flags of Slavic nations and regions, in some instances with minor variations to the horizontal stripes and, in some cases, the colors as well.
		As many of the Slavic nations of the time were under foreign domination, the Russian flag became a symbol of inspiration to Slavic peoples.
		The colours are detemined according to Pantone Matching System, red 199 and blue c 300.
	www.allstates-flag.com /fotw/flags/cs.html (2623 words)

	Pan-Slavic colors
		These three colors are, without the same symbolism, also used on the flags of many non-Slavic nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
		Now I am extremely impressed by the latest edition.
		Real World Color Management addresses the all too familiar lament: "My inkjet prints photos that do not reflect what's on my screen."Color management always seemed like an arcane science.
	www.freeglossary.com /Pan-Slavic_colors (2623 words)

	Biocrawler:Reference desk archive/April 2004 - Biocrawler definition:Biocrawler:Reference desk archive/April 2004 - Biocrawler
		Right, you're talking about the Pan-African colours in the latter case and a combination of the Pan-Slavic colors and the Tricolore in the former.
		Flag of Yemen indicates that the colors are traditional colors that refer to abstract concepts.
		For instance, a large number of European countries use (only) red, white and blue, whereas African nations tend to make heavy use of black, green, yellow and red; a lot of island nations, meanwhile, seem to use light blue/turquoise and yellow a lot, since they are the predominant colours of their environment.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Biocrawler:Reference_desk_archive/April_2004 (10131 words)

	Czech Republic
		The choice of blue meant that the colors of the flag were now red-white-blue, which in the nineteenth century were considered "traditional Slavic" colors and had been adopted by most pan-Slavic oriented movements (including the Czech Sokol movement) during that time.
		The first Czechoslovakian flag (1918-1920) was identical to the Polish one as these are the colors of Bohemia.
		The Czechoslovak State Flag is a white-red field with the red colour in the bottom, which is in fact the Czech Flag and a blue threeangle, which had been added as the Slovak part of the complete flag.
	www.fotw.net /flags/cz.html (1649 words)

	Pan Slavic colors
		The Pan-Slavic colors, red, blue and white, are colors used on the flags of most Slavic states and peoples.
		These three colors are, without the same symbolism, also used on the flags of many non-Slavic nations, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
		Their use symbolizes the common origin of the Slavic peoples.
	www.therfcc.org /pan-slavic-colors-128928.html (1649 words)

	Slovenia
		Blue, white and red are traditional Slavic colors and together they make up the pan-Slavic colors.
		The Slovenian white, blue and red colors originated with Slovenian nationalists in 1848, when Slovenia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		When the Austro-Hungarian kingdom collapsed after the First World War Slovenia merged with other Slavic states in 1918 to form a union that would become Yugoslavia.
	www.vdiest.nl /Europa/slovenia.htm (1649 words)

	Russia Flag Glass Ornament
		The Pan-Slavic colors of red, white, and blue are used on the flags of most Slavic states.
		First used on and originated on the Russian flag, their use symbolizes the common origin of the Slavic peoples.
		As if blowing in a gentle breeze, this glass replica of Russia’s flag gracefully waves the traditional red, white, and blue colors.
	www.bronners.net /1095198.html (101 words)

	Russia
		The Russian flag has also inspired the flags of many Slavic nations of Europe, and the colors are often referred to as the pan-Slavic colors.
		There have been rumblings of a flag change in Russia over the past few years and most of the designs are based on the color red as it is a national color of Russia.
		The current Russian flag was adopted on August 21, 1991 just before the country became an independent state and member of the United Nations on December 26, 1991.
	www.vdiest.nl /Asia/russia.htm (101 words)

	Czech Republic
		The choice of blue meant that the colors of the flag were now red-white-blue, which in the nineteenth century were considered "traditional Slavic" colors and had been adopted by most pan-Slavic oriented movements (including the Czech Sokol movement) during that time.
		The official coat of arms of the Czech Republic is based on the arms of the lands of the Czech crown in the middle ages.
		Before the separation of Slovakia and the Czech Republic, a resolution was passed by the Czechoslovak government that neither of the two "new" states could continue to use the red white and blue flag of Czechoslovakia.
	www.fotw.net /flags/cz.html (1649 words)

	The Czech flag
		Slovaks, however, had hoisted a horizontal tricolor in the revolution of 1848, whose white-blue-red color were recognized as symbolizing pan-Slavic nationalism.
		The pan-Slav colors of red, white, and blue were adopted in Slovakia in 1848.
		The colors of this emblem became associated with agitation for Czech autonomy in the late nineteenth century when Bohemians and Moravians created a white-over red bicolor.
	www.cs.stedwards.edu /~chady/flag.html (143 words)

	Czech Republic
		The choice of blue meant that the colors of the flag were now red-white-blue, which in the nineteenth century were considered "traditional Slavic" colors and had been adopted by most pan-Slavic oriented movements (including the Czech Sokol movement) during that time.
		As I recall, part of the terms of the "Velvet Divorce" between the Czech and Slovak portions of the old CSFR was that neither successor state would use the national symbols of the federation.
		This made the flag different from the flag of Bohemia alone (recognizing the fact that not only Silesians and Moravians, but also Slovaks were now supposedly part of the "state bearing" nation).
	flagspot.net /flags/cz.html (1649 words)

	Russian Flag
		The colors used are also known as the Pan-Slavic colors and inspired many other eastern European nations' flag designs.
		The origins of the flag colors and design stem from the flag of the Netherlands, which was incorporated by Peter the Great of Russia in the 17th century.
		The original design of the flag is the same as that of the current Russian flag.
	www.special-tplus.com /russian-flag.html (229 words)

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