Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria consisting of two horizontal stripes: red and white. The colours of the new Galician flag, which remained in use until the dissolution of this kingdom in 1918, had resembled the white and red Polish flag adopted in 1831 by the Polish Parliament. Miller claims that the flag of Galicia consisted of the two stripes: amaranth and white, but the official Austro-Hungarian publication "Wappenrolle" (1898) clearly features the flag of Galicia in red and white. In "Wappenrolle" there is a picture of an amaranth and white flag, used unofficially, and described as "the national colours of the Poles" ("Nationalfarben der Polen)",
National colours of Ukraine usually coloured yellow. The "Gold" (Or) is nearly always represented by a shade of Yellow, as there is no distinct colour "Yellow" in heraldry; they both count as "Gold". Blue and gold are also national colours of Sweden, Palau and Kazakhstan. The colours in the Ukrainian flag represent golden fields of grain under a clear blue sky, appropriate for a country known as the "bread basket" of its area. The Ukrainian flag was light blue over yellow prior to the establishment of the Soviet Republic. Used sparingly, blue signifies blue skies or air. It can be used to denote good