Flag of Austria
The Drapeau of the Austria is composed of three horizontal bands red (above), white and red.
This flag was adopted at the 13th century by Frederic II of Austria in its capacity as duke of Austria.
But the origin seems to be the use as banner of the shirt or the stained tunic of blood of the duke of Babenberg at the time of a battle against the Moors. The shirt had been protected partly by the belt which barred it.
The flag was taken again by Austria during the replacement of the empire Austro-Hungarian (empire of Habsbourg) by the Republic after the First World War.
The period of fastening to the Germany between 1938 and 1945 was marked by the use of the flag Nazi. The return to this two-tone flag is made officially on May 1st 1945.
Roa-rup: Flãmbura-a Austriiljei
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