NEDERLAND 1572 > NEDERLAND 1596
NEDERLAND 1572 > VRYBURGERVLAG 1899 > Af. VOLKSFRONT 1993-1996
NEDERLAND 1572 > ZUID AFRIKA 1928-1994 > AFRIKANERS 2007
NEDERLAND 1596 > NATAL REPUBLIEK or NATALIA 1839
NEDERLAND 1596 > ORANJE VRYSTAAT 1856
NEDERLAND 1596 > TRANSVAAL 1857
TRANSVAAL 1857 > GRIQUALAND 1862
TRANSVAAL 1857 > GOOSEN 1882 + NIEUWE REPUBLIEK / VRYHEID 1884
NEDERLAND 1596 > RUSSIA 1693 > RUSSIA 1705
NEDERLAND 1596 > LUXEMBURG 1848
FILIATION OF THE RUSSIAN FLAG BY ITS COLORS (that became the PAN-SLAV COLORS) :
SLOVAKIA 1848
SLOVENIA 1848
SERBIA
1835
MONTENEGRO 1910
YUGOSLAVIA 1918 (never adopted propozal)
SORAB People 1842
CROATIA 1848
STATE OF SLOVENES, CROATS AND SERBS 1918
YUGOSLAVIA 1918 (named Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes till 1929)
CZEKOSLOVAKIA 1920, then CZEKIA
1993
FILIATION OF THE RUSSIAN FLAG BY ITS PATTERN (the so typical russo-slavic pattern with the darkest color of the triband in the middle of the flag) :
Livländische
Ritterschaft 1700's
Estländische
Ritterschaft 1700's
Kurländische
Ritterschaft 1700's
BULGARIA 1878
ESTONIA 1881
LITUANIA 1918
ARMENIA 1918
BASHKIR GOVERNMENT 1917
MOUNTAIN GOVERNMENT
(Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus) 1917
OSSETIA 1991
TIUMEN 1995 (very slightly shifted in 2008)
EVENK People 2011
DAGHESTAN 1994
DONETSK REPUBLIC
2014
LUGANSK REPUBLIC 2014
AS USUAL WIKIMERDIA IS JUST SHIT :
so called Governorate of Estonia
within the Russian Empire 1721-1917 LINK HERE > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorate_of_Estonia
WikiMERDIA even turned the blak band into a violet one !!!!
so called Governorate of Livonia within the Russian Empire 1721-1918 LINK HERE > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governorate_of_Livonia
so called Governorate of Courland
within the Russian Empire 1795-1918 LINK HERE > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courland_Governorate
AND NOW THE REALITY :
Thoze 3 flagz were FIRST (from the 1600's) the colorz of the Baltic-German noble knightly corporations / knighthoods (die Ritterschaften) of the Estonian, Livonia and Courland provinces.
Thoze 3 flagz were SECOND (from the 1802) the colorz of the oficial uniforms of the University of Dorpat by a personal decree of Emperor Alexander 1. NOTHING TO DO / SEE with provincial flagz !!!!
LINK HERE (see part titled "Origin of estonian flag" - English version) > vexillographia.ru/estonia/index.htm
Useless to say that, between WikiMERDIA and Viktor LOMANTSOV, I DO TRUST 1000000000% MORE Viktor !!!!
SO THE REALITY WAS THAT :
This is THE SOLE, ONE & ONLY FLAG of the Russian Governorates of Estonia, Livonia, Courland.