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'''The flag of Estonia''' has three colours and is made of three equal horizontal bands coloured [[blue]] (top), [[black]], and [[white]] (bottom). [[Blue]] mirrors the [[sky]], [[black]] the colour of the soil and national coat, and [[white]] the peoples' happiness and light. In [[Estonian language]] it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands. The [[flag]] was designed in the 1880s and adopted when [[Estonia]] became independent in [[1918]]. |
'''The flag of Estonia''' has three colours and is made of three equal horizontal bands coloured [[blue]] (top), [[black]], and [[white]] (bottom). [[Blue]] mirrors the [[sky]], [[black]] the colour of the soil and national coat, and [[white]] the peoples' happiness and light. In [[Estonian language]] it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands. The [[flag]] was designed in the 1880s and adopted when [[Estonia]] became independent in [[1918]]. |
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The flag of Estonia has three colours and is made of three equal horizontal bands coloured blue (top), black, and white (bottom). Blue mirrors the sky, black the colour of the soil and national coat, and white the peoples' happiness and light. In Estonian language it is called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands. The flag was designed in the 1880s and adopted when Estonia became independent in 1918.
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