List of Dominican Republic flags

This is a lists of flags used in the Dominican Republic. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of the Dominican Republic.

National flags

Flag Date Use Description
1844–present National Flag with coat of arms, State flag, State ensign, and War ensign A crossed two-colored flag with the country's coat of arms in the center. The white cross at the center is taken from the flag of La Trinitaria which led the struggle for independence.[1]
1849–present Civil flag and ensign

Standards

Flag Date Use Description
?–present Presidential Standard of the Dominican Republic (at Sea)
1930s–1961 Personal flag of Rafael Trujillo

Military

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Dominican Armed Forces
Flag of the Dominican Civil Defence

Land Force

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Dominican Army
Standard of the Dominican Army Military Academy
Flag Date Use Description
Naval Ensign
Naval jack of the Dominican Navy
Flag of the Naval Academy

Air Force

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Dominican Air Force

Police

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Dominican National Police

Institutional flags

Flag Date Use Description
Flag of the Supreme Court of the Dominican Republic and the Dominican Judiciary System
Flag of the Central Electoral Board
Flag of the Dominican Port Authority
Flag of the General Prosecutor of the Republic

Political flags

Flag Date Party Description
1973–present Dominican Liberation Party
2011–present Country Alliance
2009–present Civic Renovation Party
1959-1968 Revolutionary Movement on June 14es

Historical flags

Flag Date Use Description
1492–1500 Royal Flag of The Crown of Castile quartered banner of arms of Castile, represented by a castle, and León, represented by a lion.
1500–1516 Royal Flag of The Crown of Castile the same design of the previous flag in a slightly different shape.
1516–1785 Flag of the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo The Cross of Burgundy flag represents the Spanish Empire.
1785–1795, 1810–1821, 1861–1865 Flag of Santo Domingo A Tricolour of Red, Yellow and Red with the coat of arms off-centred toward the hoist. In 1861, general Pedro Santana asked queen Isabella II of Spain to retake control of the Dominican Republic, after a period of only 17 years of independence. Spain, which had not come to terms with the loss of its American colonies 30 years earlier, accepted his proposal and made the country a colony again.
1795–1809 Flag of the Saint-Domingue The tricolour flag of the French First Republic. France came to own the whole island by the Treaty of Basel, as Spain ceded Santo Domingo as a consequence of the French Revolutionary Wars.
1804–1809 Colonial Flag of Saint Domingue a red field with the French Tricolor in the canton and defaced with the arms of Saint Domingue.
1809–1813 Flag of Spain under Joseph Bonaparte A White Banner with the coat of arms off-centred toward the hoist.
1821–1822 Flag of Spanish Haiti On 9 February 1822 Jean-Pierre Boyer annexed the Spanish out of the colony of Santo Domingo, which a few months before had proclaimed its independence from Spain (30 November 1821) under the name The Republica del Haiti Español. An attempt to declare its alliance to Gran Colombia, the flag was raised in the early weeks of 1822, but it was short-lived when nine weeks later Boyer had ended the republic.
1822–1844 Flag of the Unification of Hispaniola
1822–1844 Civil Flag of the Unification of Hispaniola
1838–1844 Early flag of the Trinitaria It was developed from the flag of Haiti and was added a white cross in the center. In early version, 17 white stars placed vertically along the hoist, two white stars placed above and below the cross, respectively, and 9 white stars placed vertically along the hoist.
1838–1844 Early flag of the Trinitaria, version 2
1838–1844 Early flag of the Trinitaria, version 3
1844–1849 Flag of the Dominican War of Independence It was developed from the flag of Haiti and was added a white symmetric cross.
1849–1861 Flag of the First Dominican Republic A crossed two-colored flag with the country's coat of arms in the center
1905–1908 Flag of The United States Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 45 white stars on a blue field.
1908–1912 Flag of The United States Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 46 white stars on a blue field.
1912–1924 Flag of The United States Thirteen horizontal stripes alternating red and white; in the canton, 48 white stars on a blue field.

See also

References

  1. ^ Complete Flags of the World (5th ed.). DK. 2009. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7566-4115-3.