The following is a list of the Flags of Bulgaria .
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1878–present | Physical National flag and Civil ensign | A horizontal tricolor of white, green and red. | |
1879–present | Wartime flag | A horizontal tricolor of red, green and white. | |
Digital flag | |||
1990-present | Hanging national flag | Vertical version of the tricolor. | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Standard of the president of the Republic | |||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1937–1946 | Standard of the Tsar | ||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Flag of the Bulgarian Heraldry and Vexillology Society |
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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current | |||
2014–present | Bulgarian National Union – New Democracy | ||
2014–present | The Bulgarian Revival | Political flag with the Bulgarian lion. | |
2006–present | Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria | ||
2005–present | Attack | ||
1991–present | IMRO – Bulgarian National Movement | ||
1999–present | Bulgarian National Union | National flag with Tamgha of the Dulo clan. | |
Bulgarian Agrarian National Union | |||
Former | |||
1944-1947 | Bulgarian Fatherland Front | ||
1936-1944 | Ratniks | ||
1932-1944 | Union of Bulgarian National Legions | ||
1932-1934 | Bulgarian National Socialist Workers Party | ||
1919-1990 | Bulgarian Communist Party | ||
Flag | Date | Party | Description |
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?–present | Flag of Bulgarian General Mufti | ||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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Flag of the Bulgarian Turks | |||
Flag of the Pomaks | Flag of former Republic of Tamrash | ||
Flag of the Sarakatsani | Flag of the Sarakatsani | ||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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c. 1325 | Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire | Flag according to Angelino Dalorto | |
c. 1380 | Flag of the Second Bulgarian Empire | Flag according to Guillem Soler | |
14th century | Flag of the Tsardom of Vidin | ||
1878–1886 | Flag of the Republic of Tamrash | ||
1903 | Flag of the Strandzha Commune | ||
1879–1908 [1] | Flag of the Principality of Bulgaria | A horizontal tricolor of white-green-red | |
1908–1946 | Flag of the Tsardom of Bulgaria | ||
1946–1947 | Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria | ||
1947–1948 | Civil and State flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria [2] | A horizontal tricolor of white-green-red with the Bulgarian emblem in the top-left corner | |
1948–1968 | |||
1968–1971 | |||
1971–1990 | |||
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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1862–1868 | The standard of the Bulgarian Legion | ||
1876 | Flag used in April Uprising | ||
1876 | Flag used in Razlovci uprising | ||
1877-1878 | The standard of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps | ||
1877- | The standard of the Bulgarian Volunteer Corps | Samara Flag | |
Flag | Date | Use | Description |
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c.1915 | King Ferdinand's Proposal | ||
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