Banner o Slovenie

The naitional banner o Slovenie features three equal horizontal baunds o white (top), blue, an reid, wi the Slovenian coat o airms locatit in the upper hoist side o the banner centred in the white an blue baunds. The coat o airms is a shield wi the image o Munt Triglav, Slovenie's heichest peak, in white against a blue backgrund at the centre; beneath it are twa wavy blue lines representin the Adriatic Sea an local rivers, an abuin it are three sax-pointit golden starns arranged in an invertit triangle which are taken frae the coat o airms o the Coonts o Celje, the great Slovenian dynastic hoose o the late 14t an early 15t centuries^[1].

The banner's colours are considered tae be Pan-Slavic, but thay actually come frae the medieval coat o airms o the Duchy o Carniolae, consistin o a blue eagle on a white backgrund wi a reid-an-gowd crescent.^[2] The existin tricolour wis creatit during the Spring o Naitions in 1848^[3], when a group of students frae Ljubljana teuk the colours frae the Carniolan coat o airms, arrangin them in sic a wey that it resembled the Roushie naitional banner.

The ceevil an state ensign for ships haes the same design as the naitional banner, but a different shape (2:3 instead o 1:2). (Boats up tae 24 meters uise the naitional banner as an ensign.^[4]) The naval jack is a white, blue, an yellae horizontal tricolor^[5].

1. ↑ The Government's site about the flag^{[deid airtin]}
2. ↑ http://www.dz-rs.si/index.php?id=112
3. ↑ Slovenia
4. ↑ Slovenia: Civil and state ensigns and administrative signals
5. ↑ Regulations of registration and signalization of vehicles, air- and water-vessels of the Ministry of Defence (in Slovene)