Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria - created after 1772 when this previously Polish province had been annexed to Austria. Until 1849 Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria constituted one crownland with Bukovina and used the blue-red flag consisting of two horizontal stripes of equal width. Following the separation of Bukovina and Galicia in 1849, the old blue-red flag was adopted by Bukovina while Galicia received a new flag consisting of three horizontal stripes of equal width: blue, red and yellow. This flag had remained in use until 1890 when Galicia and Lodomeria received a new flag
Flag of Austria in the reign of Emperor Joseph II, the Austrian, later Austro-Hungarian Navy used a naval ensign ("Marineflagge") based on the red-white-red colours, and augmented with a shield of similar colours. Both of these flags became obsolete with Austria-Hungary's dissolution in 1918, and the newly formed rump state of German Austria adopted the red-white-red triband as its national flag. The Austrian flag has been the main motif of many collector coins. One of the most recent examples is the 20 euro Post War Period coin, issued by the Republic of Austria on 17 September 2003. The obverse of this coin shows