Flag of Silesia and Lower Silesia
The flag of Silesia and Lower Silesia is a simple white-and-yellow horizontal banner. White is on top and yellow on the bottom, with a 2:3 height-to-width ratio. It began as the flag of the Province of Silesia (1882–1919) and was later used by the Province of Lower Silesia (1920–1935). Today it is a symbol of the Silesian people, especially in Saxony, Germany.
Historically, the Duchy of Upper and Lower Silesia (1742–1918) used a different flag: black on top and yellow on bottom, drawing from the coat of arms of Lower Silesia, which features a black eagle on a yellow field.
The modern Polish region of Lower Silesia (the Lower Silesian Voivodeship) uses two different flags. From 2001 to 2008 it had white over red with the voivodeship’s coat of arms in the center. In 2009 it adopted a new flag: a golden-yellow field with a black eagle in the center, plus a white crescent and cross on the eagle’s wings. The flag is 5:8 in ratio, and the eagle design was updated after a heraldic review.
The flag of the Moravian-Silesian Region in the Czech Republic also includes a reference to Silesia’s heraldry: its flag’s design echoes the Lower Silesia eagle in one quarter, linking the regions’ coats of arms.
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