Banner o Thailand

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The banner o the Kinrick o Thailand shows five horizontal stripes in the colours red, white, blue, white an red, wi the middle blue stripe being twice as wide as each o the ither fower. The three colours red-white-blue stand for naition-releegion-keeng, an unoffeecial motto o Thailand. The banner wis adoptit on 28 September 1917, accordin tae the ryal decree aboot the banner in that year. The Thai name for the banner is ธงไตรรงค์ (Thong Trairong), which simply means tricolour banner.

History

The banner o the Kinrick o Thailand is aften flown alang wi the twa Ryal banners o the Keeng an Queen.

The first flag uised for Siam wis probably a plain red ane, first uised unner Keeng Narai (1656–1688). Naval flags later uised different seembols on the red ground—a white chakra (the weapon o god Vishnu which uise as the seembol o the Hoose o Chakri), or a white elephant inside the chakra.

Offeecially the first flag wis creatit in 1855 bi Keeng Mongkut (Rama IV), showin a white elephant (a ryal seembol) on red grund, as the plain coloured flag wis no distinct enough for internaitional relations.

In 1916 the flag wis chynged tae show a white elephant in ryal regalia. In 1917, the current design, but wi the middle colour being the same red as the ooter stripe, wis defined as the civil ensign. The story goes that durin a flood Keeng Vajiravudh (Rama VI) saw the flag hangin upside-doun, an tae prevent this frae happenin again creatit a new flag which wis seemmetrical. Later in 1917 the middle colour wis chynged tae dark blue, which wis similar in tone tae indigo, which at the time wis regarded as the auspicious colour for Seturday, the day Keeng Vajiravudh wis born. Accordin tae ither sources, the blue colour wis an aa chosen tae show solidarity wi the Allies o Warld War I, which an aa haed the colours blue-red-white in their flags.

The banner resembles the banner o Costa Rica, which wis adoptit 11 years prior tae Thailand's. The main difference is that the blue an red colours are invertit; the flag o Costa Rica an aa haes a different proportion o 3:5.

In the "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica television series in 2004, the color an layoot o the flag o Caprica, ane o twal colonies in the series, is closed resemble tae Thailand's flag.

Timeline

Flag	Date	Use	Description
	c.1700–c.1790	Template:FIAV National ensign durin late Ayutthaya an Thonburi periods	A red plain rectangular flag.
	c.1790–1855	Template:FIAV Civil ensign prior to 1855
	c.1790–c.1820	Template:FIAV State an naval ensign decreed bi King Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke (Rama I)	Red flag wi a white chakra, presumably tae represent the Chakri Dynasty.
	c.1820–1855	Template:FIAV Change institutit bi Keeng Buddha Loetla Nabhalai (Rama II)	Red flag wi a white elephant inside the chakra.
	1855–1893	Template:FIAV Naitional ensign decreed bi Keeng Mongkut (Rama IV)	A white elephant, facing the hoist, centred on a red field. Cawed in Thai leid "Thong Chang Puak (in thai: ธงช้างเผือก)" (elephant flag).
	1893–1916	Template:FIAV Civil ensign until 1916
	1893–1898	Template:FIAV State an naval ensign, tae be displayed defaced wi the flyer's emblem on the upper hoist corner	A white elephant in regalia, facin the hoist, centred on a red field
	1898–1912	Template:FIAV State an naval ensign
	1912–1917	Template:FIAV State flag an ensign, decreed bi King Vajiravudh (Rama VI)
	1917	Template:FIAV Civil ensign	Red flag wi twa horizontal white stripes ane-saxt wide, ane-saxt frae the top an bottom
	1917–present	Template:FIAV Naitional flag, civil an state ensign	Flag wi horizontal blue stripe ane-third wide atween white stripes ane-saxt wide, atween red stripes ane-saxth wide, kent as the Trairanga

Maritime flags

The naval ensign o Ryal Thai Navy is similar tae the naitional banner but haes the red circle in the middle which reaches as far as the red stripes at the top an bottom. In the circle stands a white elephant, in full caparison, facin the flagpole. Thai Navy jack is the naitional banner wi an additional emblem o Ryal Thai Navy in the middle. The design o the regimental colours o RTN is as same as this banner. These twa ensigns are adoptit in 1917.

See an aa

• Leet o Thai banners
• Ryal Staundart o Thailand
• Ryal Banners o Thailand
• Leet o Military banners o Thailand

Sources

• Macharoen, Chawingam (2002). Thong Thai Laem 1.

Freemit airtins

• Template:FOTW
• Royal Flags (Thailand)
• Siam Flag museum (Thai only)
• Historical thai flag

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