History Of Sri Lanka National Flag
The sri lankan flag is a one coloured field with left two vertical stripes and right a lion on a rectangular panel.
History of sri lanka national flag. The civilian flag had a royal running lion with a sword on its right foreleg and boxwood on each of the four corners of a plain edge. Lion flag sinha flag. A defaced white ensign with the flag of sri lanka in the canton influenced by the british design.
The history of sri lanka is intertwined with the history of the broader indian subcontinent and the surrounding regions comprising the areas of south asia southeast asia and indian ocean. All country flags here. We need a new flag to represent the multi ethnic character of the country a flag for all communities they said.
The flag of sri lanka was adopted in 1972. The proportion of the sri lankan flag is 1 2. A defaced national flag of sri lanka with coat of arms of sri lanka.
Dk pocket book 1997 shows the flag of kandy a k a. The earliest human remains found on the island of sri lanka date to about 125 000 years ago balangoda man. It is the right part of the current sri lankan flag but there are no leaves in the corners but finials derived from the spire on top of a buddhist temple.
The lion flag is the sinhala flag not the national flag and other communities can t be asked to salute it. Civil and state flag civil ensign. They represent the country and its people within sri lanka and abroad as well as traditions culture history and geography.
The national flag of sri lanka is an adaptation of the civil flag of the last sri lankan king sri wickrama rajasingha. Since that time the lion flag has been the chief flag of the island s sinhalese majority except in those years when sri lanka was conquered by foreign invaders. 1972 naval ensign of sri lanka.
Britain established its control over the island in 1815 when it overcame the king of kandy forcing him to lower the lion flag on march 2 1815. The lion flag which was used as the national flag of ceylon prior to 1815 when it became a british colony. A yellow field with two panels.
Its four pipul leaves are buddhist symbols and the sword is said to represent authority. Several other symbols do not have official acknowledgment as national symbols but are considered national symbols at the local level. 1972 flag of the sri lanka army.
Prior to 1815 the gold lion was originally the national flag of ceylon. The army flag defaced with the insignia of the sri lanka army. When sri lanka gained independence from britain on 4 of february of.
Sri lanka flag history. The used colors in the flag are red green yellow orange. The smaller hoist side panel has only two vertical bands of green and saffron and the larger fly side panel is the maroon field depicting the golden lion holding the kastane sword in its right fore paw in the center and four bo tree.
On this modern version the green represents muslims while the orange represents hindus. The proto historical period begins roughly in the 3rd century based on prakrith chronicles. Others said that the lion flag was only the royal standard not the national flag.
The national symbols of sri lanka are the national anthem flag emblem flower tree bird butterfly gemstone and sport.
