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Andalusia (Spain)

Andalucía, Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Comunidad Autónoma de Andalucía

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[Andalucia (Spain)]
by Jorge Candeias

See also:

"State" flag

[Andalucia (Spain), 'state' flag]
by Antonio Gutiérrez, taken with permission from the S.E.V. website

History

[1883 Andalusia flag]
by Jorge Candeias

The first flags proposed for Andalucía, intended to include Murcia and Badajoz [southern Extremadura], were designed at the Antequera Congress 27-29 October 1883:

  1. four horizontal stripes of black (for Sierra Morena mountains), red (federalist colour), white (Sierra Nevada) and green (Guadalquivir river)
  2. another proposal was the same but without the red (that is, the current Extremadura flag upside down)
  3. a third proposal was red-white-green (red federalist, white Umayid, green river).
The first proposal was the most used one. About 1900 a Federalist revolution in Casares flew a green over white flag. At the 1918 Ronda Federalist Assembly three proposals were suggested:
  1. the most used flag, but changing the order of the stripes: horizontal black-red-green-white
  2. horizontal black-green-white
  3. horizontal green-white-green (white for the Umayid and green for the Guadiana and Guadalquivir rivers). The designer was Blas Infante.
The current design was made official by Organic Law 6/81 of 30th December 1981, published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado 9th January 1982.

Jaume Ollé, 7 January 1999

Eastern Andalusia Proposal

[Eastern Andalusia proposal]
by Jaume Ollé

Autonomy for Eastern Andalucia was proposed in 1976-77. A flag for the territory was designed but never used officially. In 1977 all of Andalucia obtained a status of pre-autonomy.

Jaume Ollé, 15 December 1996