History of the Bolivian flag

Last modified: 2007-06-09 by antónio martins
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• Introduction
• Flags of 1825-1826
• Flags of 1826-1851
  • Peruvian-Bolivian Confederation (1838-1839)
• Flags of 1851-1854
• current flag
  • Santa Cruz de la Sierra Republic (1904)
• New flag in 2006?
• History of the Bolivian national coat of arms and emblems

• Two articles about the history of the bolivian national flag:
  • www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/detallenoticia468.asp
  • www.bolivia.com/noticias/autonoticias/detallenoticia469.asp
  both are in Spanish.
  reported by Mark Sensen, 09 Mar 2002
• History of the Bolivian coat-of-arms: Great site; a real treasure. The most comprehensive site about natioal coats of arms that I saw (and you know I saw plenty). Try all the links and don’t miss a visit to the Galería.
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 30 Dec 1998
• History of the Bolivian Flag

Introduction

Concerning books on Bolivian flag History, I got the impression that Alquizaleth [vzz83] Calderón & Cortéz [a2d01] conflict in several aspects, the later being perhaps more reliable.
António Martins, 13 May 2004

J. G. Fuentes [fue75] shows the variants of the Bolivian flag 1825-26, the Bolivian monochrome official flags 1854-55 and the arms of Bolivia 1888-c1900 and since c1900.
Dave Martucci, 19 Mar 2000

According to [mch85a], the flag with its present order of stripes was introduced in 1851 but a number of variations had been used since Bolivia gained independence in 1825.
Jarig Bakker, 02 Jan 2002

Changes in the coat of arms means, that the flag was a little bit different, too.
J. Patrick Fischer, 12 May 2004

However, it is not certain that each change on the coat of arms caused an equivalent change on the contemporary flag — either by law or use.
António Martins, 13 May 2004

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