Flag of Bohemia

[1] The even older description of this flag (13th century) can be read in the chronicle of Ottokar aus der Gaal (Otacher ouz der Geul, Ottokar von Steiermark) (* about 1265; † between 1318 and 1322): Die Steirische Reimchronik.

[2] Hern Dietrich Spatzmanen sach man die banier leiten: in einem rȏten samît breiten was gewohrt ein lewe wîz.

"[5] The oldest surviving full colour depiction of the arms of Bohemia is represented by the fresco in the hall of the castle of Gozzoburg in Krems an der Donau, that comes from the early 1270s.

[7] The bicolor white-red banners were therefore carried into battle by the armies of the Bohemian kings and in the 19th century the colors were adopted by the Czech national movement.

Since 1993, the flag of Bohemia has had no legal status and is only rarely seen today in the Czech Republic.