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The Prussian national and merchant flag was originally a simple black-white-black flag issued on May 22, 1818, but this was replaced on March 12, 1823, with a new flag. The revised one (3:5) was parted black, white, and black (1:4:1), showing in the white stripe the eagle with a blue orb bound in gold and a scepter ending in another eagle.
Prussia, in European history, any of three historical areas of eastern and central Europe. It is most often associated with the kingdom ruled by the German Hohenzollern dynasty, which claimed much of northern Germany and western Poland in the 18th and 19th centuries and united Germany under its leadership in 1871.
Flaga Prus przedstawia na białym tle czarnego orła, uzbrojonego złoto, trzymającego w szponach złote (żółte) insygnia koronacyjne, pod złotą królewską koroną.
Zamknij. Kolory flagi nawiązują do srebrno-czarnego herbu Hohenzollernów, a także do barw zakonu krzyżackiego. Prawdopodobnie nawiązanie do barw Prus znalazło się w trójkolorowej fladze Cesarstwa Niemieckiego.
Soon the Prussian landscolors of "black and white" would replace the "red and white" on the flags of Poland. West Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773-1824 and 1878-1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia.
After the First Partition of Poland in 1772, the newly annexed Royal Prussia and Warmia became the Province of West Prussia, while the Duchy of Prussia (along with part of Warmia) became the Province of East Prussia.
The combination of the black and white colours with the white and red Hanseatic colours of the free cities Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck, as well as of Brandenburg, resulted in the black-white-red commercial flag of the North German Confederation, which became the flag of the German Empire in 1871.
