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The FAME is a site devoted to the systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Bosnia and Herzegovina - Political Flags

• Bosnian-Herzegovinian Petriotic Party, BPS
• Democratic NationalAlliance, DNS
• Democratic People's Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, DNZ
• Civic Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, GDS
• Croatian Democratic League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HDU
• Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HDZ BiH
• Croatian Democratic Union 1990, HDZ 1990
• Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HSP BiH
• Croatian Peasant's Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HSS BiH
• Liberal Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, LDS
• People's Party Work for Progress, NSRzB
• Party of Democratic Progress of the Republic of Srpska, PDP
• Movement for Changes, PZP
• Worker's Communist Party of Bosnia nad Herzegovina, RKP
• Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBiH
• Party of Democratic Action, SDA
  • Party of Democratic Action, 1997 – ca. 2000
• Serb Democratic Party, SDS
• Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH
  • Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH, 1996 – 1998
• Social-Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDU BiH
• League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SK BiH, 1963 – 1990
• Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats, SNSD
  • Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats, SNSD, variant
• Socialist Party, SP
• Serb Radical Party of the Republic of Srpska, SRS

• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bosnian-Herzegovinian Petriotic Party, BPS

Bosanskohercegovačka patriotska stranka

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The flag of BPS is dark red with the emblem to the left and initials and full name inscribed in yellow to its right. The emblem consists of three rotated squares, upper red, central green and lower blue. The three colours denote the three nations of B&H, while the fleur-de-lis stands for the B&H statehood. Sometimes the flags are also defaced with the name of the party leader Sefer Halilović.

Democratic NationalAlliance, DNS

Demokratiski nacionalni savez

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The DNS flag is white with the party symbol in the middle. The symbol is a Serb tricolour arch above blue initials and the full name below it. The flag is said to stand for democratic commitment, openness and unity within the party.

Democratic People's Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, DNZ

Demokratska narodna zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine

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The DNZ flag is light blue with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem is a yellow disk with blue striped initials DNZ in its upper half and with three red stripes below it.

Civic Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, GDS

Građanska demokratska stranka Bosne i Hercegovine

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The Civic Democratic Party flag is white with the emblem to the left and the full name to the right. The GDS emblem is a scalene triangle symbolizing the B&H, defaced with yellow initials GDS.

Croatian Democratic League of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HDU

Hrvatska demokratska unija Bosne i Hercegovine

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The flag of the HDU is light blue with the party emblem in the middle below which is inscribed full name in two rows in blue letters. The emblem is composed of gold (in use, de facto, blue) printed initials HDU in front of which are three squares set diagonally one above the other, red, white and blue.

Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HDZ BiH

Hrvatska demokratska zajednica Bosne i Hercegovine

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The HDZ BiH flag is light blue with the emblem under which initials are inscribed (as the flag of counterpart party in Croatia). It is formally adopted with the establishment of the party on 18 August 1990. Beside the official flag it is often used a stylized tricolour with thin red and blue stripes and the emblem in the middle.

Croatian Democratic Union 1990, HDZ 1990

Hrvatska demokratska zajednica 1990

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The HDZ1990 was established fractioning from HDZ BiH, retaining identical symbols with addition of numeral 1990. The flag of HDZ 1990 is vertical, light bolue with HDZ emblem in the middle and the logo below it. The emblem, equal to the HDZ emblem in Croatia, is the letter H composed of red and blue squares and a white triple wattle stylizing letters D and Z. The logo is composed of italic letters HDZ with a red rotated square and silver numerals 1990.

Croatian Party of Rights of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HSP BiH

Hrvatska stranka prava Bosne i Hercegovine

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The flag of the HSP BiH is the Croatian tricolour with the party emblem in the middle. The emblem consists of a shield divided by a bend sinister argent inscribed black HSP, the chief is chequy gules and argent and the base azure inscribed BiH. The shield is topped with a triple wattle. It is based on the flag of the mother party in Croatia. The flag was adopted with the new party Statutes of 2006.

Croatian Peasant's Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, HSS BiH

Hrvatska seljačka stranka Bosne i Hercegovine

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The HSS BiH flag is white with the party emblem in the middle above the blue initials. Sometimes the full name of the party is added below in green. The emblem consists of red squares stylized as a cross including a golden fleur-de-lis, symbolizing the Christianity and the B&H statehood. The flag of the mother party from Croatia is also in use frequently.

Liberal Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, LDS

Liberalno demokratska stranka Bosne i Hercegovine

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The LDS flag is very light yellow or white with the party logo in the middle composed of a blue outlined yellow apple with initials LDS above the full name of the party and with the LDS-Youth logo (blue-yellow stylized butterfly), as an important part of the party.

People's Party Work for Progress, NSRzB

Narodna stranka Radom za boljitak

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The flag of the NSRzB is light-blue with the party emblem in the middle and the white full name of the party inscribed below it. The emblem is composed of three parts shaped as arrowheads pointing towards the centre conjoined, coloured red pointing from the left, green from the right and blue from below. These parts are outlined in white.

Party of Democratic Progress of the Republic of Srpska, PDP

Partija demokratskog progresa Republike Srpske

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The PDP flag is blue with the party emblem in the middle and the full white Cyrillic inscription in two rows below it. The emblem is red oak leaf behind Cyrillic dark blue initials PDP, outlined white.

Movement for Changes, PZP

Pokret za promjene

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The PZP flag of the is light blue with doubled emblem of the party. The emblem is composed of a blue square with a yellow arrow pointing toward up and right and with a series of white five-pointed stars parallel with the other diagonal. Above the square are the initials PZP, and below it is the full name in two rows; on the left emblem inscriptions are in Latin and on the right in Cyrillic script.

Worker's Communist Party of Bosnia nad Herzegovina, RKP

Radničko-komunistička partija Bosne i Hercegovine

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The RKP flag is light blue with the party emblem in the canton and the full name of the party inscribed in red letters in two rows. The emblem composes red sickle, hammer and five-pointed star above stylized green olive branch. The flag was adopted in 2004 when the party was established.

Party for Bosnia and Herzegovina, SBiH

Stranka za Bosnu i Hercegovinu

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The flag of the Party for B&H is white with emblem consisting of blue contours of a triangle, over which is inscribed in yellow stylized ZA (=for, affirmative preposition) and three yellow stars to the right. Below the emblem is blue inscription “Stranka [za] Bosnu i Hercegovinu”.

Party of Democratic Action, SDA

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The flag in use is green-white-green triband with a silver crescent and a fleur-de-lis and tricolour green-blue-red initials SDA. The 2001 statutes do not include description of the flag any more (as previous statutes had) but give the power to the party leadership to prescribe the emblems.

Party of Democratic Action, 1997 – ca. 2000

Stranka demokratske akcije

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The flag is green-white-green with wider white stripe in which is a thing grey crescent and green acronym SDA with grey shadow.

Serb Democratic Party, SDS

Srpska demokratska stranka

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The flag is Serb tricolour with golden initials SDS in Cyrillic.

Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH

Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine

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The flag of SDP BiH is white with a red vertical stripe along the hoist 1/7 of the flag length wide, and with an emblem on the white field. The emblem is a red rose, the petals of which are forming (using some imagination) the initials SDP, and with a single green leaf; and to its left the blue striped initials in italic above the three lines inscription of the full name of the party.

Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDP BiH, 1996 – 1998

Socijaldemokratska partija Bosne i Hercegovine

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The flag used in mid-1990's is turquoise with party emblem slightly different, but still very close to the current pattern.

Social-Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SDU BiH

Socijaldemokratska unija Bosne i Hercegovine

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The SDU BiH flag is white with the emblem in the fly and the red party name at hoist. The emblem is a red rose next to a green triangle in which is inscribed in white SDU.

League of Communists of Bosnia and Herzegovina, SK BiH, 1963 – 1990

Savez komunista Bosne i Hercegovine

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The leading (and only) party of the socialist Bosnia and Herzegovina within Yugoslavia was member of Yugoslav League of Communists, and the pattern of the flag followed - the only difference being the small initials below the star. In theory the flag with inscriptions in any language of the peoples living in Bosnia and Herzegovina could be used, though in practice only two were used - in "Serbo-Croatian", either in the Latin or in the Cyrillic script.

Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats, SNSD

Savez nezavisnih socijaldemokrata

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The SNSD flag is red with the party symbol above initials and the full name of the party. It is used in two versions – with the Latin and with the Cyrillic inscription. The symbol is white bordered stylized red four-petaled rose. Prior to the adoption of the 2003 Statutes, identical flag was used, differing only in the background being blue.

Alliance of Independent Social-Democrats, SNSD, variant

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A variant of the flag uses only initials under the rose emblem.

Socialist Party, SP

Socijalistička partija

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The SP flag is white with Cyrillic or Latin inscription "SP / Socijalistička partija" and the emblem to the left. The emblem consists of two petaled red rose leaning to a blue triangle. The party used similar flag since 1996, initially with inscription "SPRS / Socijalistička partija Republike Srpske", until the name was shortened recently.

Serb Radical Party of the Republic of Srpska, SRS

Srpska radikalna stranka Republike Srpske

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The SRS flag is blue defaced in the middle a two-headed eagle with the Serbian shield holding two swords in saltire, below in an arch the Cyrillic name of the party. The flag is equal to the flag of the mother party from Serbia, adopted in B&H in 1996 on establishment of the subsidiary party.

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