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 Germany immediacy. The colours black, red, and gold were supposedly used at the election of Frederick Barbarossa as King of the Romans on 4 March 1152 in Frankfurt. According to contemporary sources, the new king's way from Frankfurt Cathedral to the Römer square was covered with a coloured carpet, which was afterwards cut into numerous small parts and distributed to the crowds. A red-clawed, -beaked and -tongued imperial eagle was used from the 14th century onwards, as depicted in the Codex Manesse about 1304. The Habsburg Monarchy used the colours black and gold as its dynastic flag from about 1700; when