CZECH REPUBLIC
Red and white are the traditional colours of Bohemia and feature on coats of arms dating from 1192 (a white lion against a red background)
The first Czech red-and-white flag appeared during the First World War and became the first national flag of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
Since it featured the colours of Bohemia alone, the blue of Moravia and Slovakia was added in 1920.
The same flag was officially adopted as the national emblem of the Czech Republic in 1992.