Flag of Galicia and Lodomeria but under no circumstances as the flag of Galicia. It seems, therefore, that the colours featured in "Wappenrolle" (red and white) were the correct colours of the Galician flag from 1890 to 1918, and not those reported by Miller (amaranth and white). 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,
National colours of Italy the revolution begun in Bologna to oust the foreign occupying forces. This tricolore was considered a symbol of redemption that from its creation was "consecrated to immortality of the triumph of faith, virtue, and sacrifice" of those who created it. Napoleon Bonaparte, in a letter from Milan to an executive director on 11 October 1796, stated that the Legione Lombarda had chosen these colours as the national colours. In a solemn ceremony at the Piazza del Duomo on 16 November 1796, a military flag was presented to the Legione Lombarda, which would become a unit in the Cisalpine Republic (1797–1802)