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An alternate flag design for Slovakia where I wanted to avoid the traditional coat of arms with it's monarchist/Hungarian connotations. The gold eagle is the national animal (and thus represented on the coat of arms), the rose was chosen because of it's association with parts of the country (the city of PreΕ‘ov and the Ε½ilina region) and because it is rather unique by European standards (excluding Lancashire).Related content
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Those are the traditional "Slavic" colours and these colours are also used on the current flag, albeit in a different in a different order, which has no genuine reason.
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Yes, I know that they are traditional Slavic colours. I was just curious about the order of them.
Anyway, I prefer double cross and 3 hills, Putting an erb of some city on flag would be not fair to others cities.
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Well, originally I wanted to get rid of the double cross/Cross of Lorraine because of its connection with Hungary. And I didn't want to use just a black eagle because they are so generic. So I chose the rose.
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Well many countries use it, in Slovakia It was introduced by Constantine and Methodius, who brought christianity to Slavic empire of Great Moravia in the 9th century. They come from Bizantia.
In Hungary in the Middle Ages used the Byzantine double cross as a sign of both Upper Danubian territory of Hungary (originally the Principality of Nitra), and secondly - as the oldest known Hungarian emblem - as a symbol of the Kingdom (not the simbol of the king as person).
About the Rose as symbol, since city Ruzomberok use it I can't imagine what would pompous city like Bratislava would doΒ
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Good job 
It's not easy making a CoAs for a country with so little independent history so well done
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The rose violates the rule of tincture and the eagle is too similar to the one of Prussia. But nice idea nonetheless.
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Pfffff, rule of tincture :S
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It has really good reason to be here
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i agree. rule of tincture is important, even today.
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Sometimes it helps make stuff "look better" but mostly it's just in the way. I am not a fan of it.
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It exists because in the medieval era when heraldry was playing more bigger role, the knights were armored from toes to head no-one could recognize who is who. They started to paint images on their shield and that way coats of arms were born. Since they were invented for being kind of business card of the person, they had to be seen from a very long distance. Solution for the problem was that they started using lighter colours on more darker ones and vice versa. And that way, THE ULTIMATE SUPER RULE OF TINCTURE was born.
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Hmm, interesting (as if I hadn't known 
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Actually, the rule of tincture never was so modern. When did occur the last time that you saw a traffic sign or a car plate violating the principles of the rule? Why do you use a dark pen or pencil to draw on a white sheet? Even the t-shirts designs use to follow the basics of the so-called rule.
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I think that's just heraldo-paranoya
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It isn't. The rule is just obvious.
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It's not heraldry if it violates the rules! ARGH!
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. . . now you sound German - *German accent* "Zis violates ze regulations!!!!!!!!"
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I'm totally not a heraldry-nazi
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Uh, I don't like these ruleΒ either... I understand why they are important, but sometimes they just feel like...Β irritating. Well, maybe I just have to try to go with them. :/
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I think they are just outdated :S
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Maybe... But I think these rules will never be updated,Β the old traditional way is used from generation to generation, endlessly. So, let's go with what we have.
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Bah, conservatives never survive :S
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Well, the rose is a proper (a heraldic element occuring in that colour in nature) which means that it isn't affected by the first rule of tincture. Also this is a modern flag with a CoA created from scratch and strictly speaking the OTL CoA of Slovakia doesn't follow the rules of tincture to a T as well (blue hills in front of a red background...).
And well, naturally the eagle looks similiar to Prussia. Because it is a typical Continental European/German-style heraldic gold eagle
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so, if the rose is blazoned proper, it could be made white as well, right? 'cause red is not the only natural colour for a rose...
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Needs more green if it's proper IMO
And I meant the silver background.
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Also true, when something is painted in it's true colours, it is exempt from the rule
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