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The Latvian flag has existed as a Latvian symbol since the late 13th century, when it was carried by the Latvian home guard in Cesis.
The flag was revived towards the end of the 19th century and following the
1917 Russian Revolution, which provided Latvia its independence, was adopted as the national flag in 1921.
Independence lasted until 1940, when the Soviet Union occupied Latvia and outlawed the use of the flag. Germany briefly replaced the Soviet Union from 1941 until 1945.
After the Second World War the Soviet Union annexed Latvia as a Soviet state and it wasn’t until the
Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) began to collapse in the late 1980s
that the Latvian flag re-emerged.
On the 27th of February 1990, the Latvian Parliament restored the national flag and in 1991 Latvian independence was again confirmed. |
