Flag of Grassland

The Flag of Grassland or Grasslandic flag (Grasslandic: Fleg Gwjereln) is a bicolour consisting of 2 horizontal bands displaying the national colours of Grassland: blue and green (Grasslandic: Grin-Bleu). The flag was first adopted as the national flag of modern Grassland in 1919, during the Grasslandic Republic, until 1941.

Since the mid-19th century, Grassland has two competing traditions of national colours, Green-blue and Red-white. Blue-green were the colours of the 1863-64 Republic, interwar Grassland of 1919-1941 and the Republic (since 1945). They were also adopted by the Grasslandic SSR (1949-1987), albeit, since 1959, with an additional ('socialist') coat of arms.

The colours red-white appeared for the first time only in 1864, in the constitution of the Second Kingdom of Grassland. It kept these colours until 1918/1919. Thereafter, white-red became a symbol of the political right, especially the radical right. The nationalists in 1933 re-established these colours along with the party's own flag. After World War II, red-white was still used by some conservative groups or by groups of the far right - as it is not forbidden, unlike proper nationalist symbols.

History
The history of the Grasslandic flag comes from the flag of Bredelven, which is eleven horizontal stripes alternating green and white representing the 13 regions that were in the kingdom; in the canton, a crown representing the monarchy on a navy blue field. After Bredelven took over the island the Kingdom of Grassland adopted a new flag inspired from the Bredelvian flag, navy blue on the top like the navy on the canton, and green like the green stripes. This flag was used until 1863 when there was a democratic revolution and they adopted a new flag based on the old flag; the only big difference was that the blue was changed from a dark blue to a light blue. Only 1 year later the Kingdom came back and, instead of reusing the old navy and green flag, which somehow made it represent the democratic party, they used a red and white flag.