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![[League of Social-Democrats flag]](../images/y/yu}vojrm.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
The vertical blue-yellow-green flag dates from the year 1848, more
exactly from 11 May1848 when this flag was adopted as the flag of the
revolutionaries from Sajkaska [region of Vojvodina around Novi Sad],
i.e. by Sajkaska Batallion (with only difference in last
colour which was brownish). The League of Social-Democrats of
Vojvodina after its establishment on 14 July 1990, adopted this flag
(somewhat modified, namely in place of brown there is green), as its
party flag, with the proposal that this shall be the future flag of
the Republic of Vojvodina.
At that time this flag becomes one of the symbols of Vojvodina
resistance movement against current regime in Belgrade, and appears
in several countries of European Union and in USA, as the official
Flag of the Republic of Vojvodina.
At that time it was also accepted also by the citizens of Vojvodina
as a recognizable symbol of our party.
Communication by Zoran Petakov, history student, toZeljko Heimer, 25 March 1999
The flag colours represents blue sky, and yellow and green are corn and wheat crops, respectively, since Vojvodina is a rich agricultural area. The design was adopted as a the official design of the party flag.
Nikola, 5 January 2001
Yesterday night BBC World News illustrated its headline on the
anti-Milosevic demonstrations in Yugoslavia with an image of
demonstrators waving large vertically-divided
(dark)blue-yellow-(dark)green flags; there were at least about five
of them, apparently identical, so they did not seem to be
home-made.
I wonder whether the shot actually showed a demonstration in
Vojvodina. The flags were identical to that shown in above, but with
both the blue and the green a bit darker. The ratio appeared to be
2:3
Santiago Dotor, 22 September 1999
Actually, the League of Social-Democrats is called Authonomashy. They want more autonomy and to be a federated republic in Serbia/Yugosalvia, but they are in vast majority Serbs.
Kis Alekandar, 18 April 2002
The claims that the blue-yellow-green flag originates from 1848 is dubious. At that time, the Hungarians used their national flag that has just been designed, just as well as the Serbs used their tricolour, so there would hardly be space for a blue-yellow-green flag. The Serbs proclaimed Srpska Vojvodina (Serbian Vojvodina) on a session in Sremski Karlovci, 1-3 May 1848. The Serb ticolour was proclaimed the flag of that state/crownland. Srpska Vojvodina was disbanded on 1863, and the old counties were reintroduced. All other flags would have been of secondary importance at that time.
Tomislav Todorovic, 31 July 2002
Horizontally-divided variant
![[League of Social-Democrats of Vojvodina]](../images/y/yu}lsv.gif)
by Ivan Sarajcic
It has been reported that the flag of League of Social-Democrats
of Vojvodina and "Republic-to-be of Vojvodina" is vertically divided
blue-yellow-green flag. I have seen this flag on demonstrations,
car-stickers (together with letter "V" as an abbreviation of
so-called "Republic of Vojvodina"), but few weeks ago on united
opposition anti-Milosevic demonstrations in Belgrade (LSV took part
there), an horizontal blue-yellow-green tricolour could have been
seen, with ratio about 1:2.
Obviously, it was the flag of LSV led by Mr. Nenad Canak. It seems
that this flag is hoisted in front of party headquarters, like the
one that I have spotted in Vrsac, town in Vojvodina, near the
Romanian border.
Why horizontal division? Perhaps, because coalition of several
political parties with autonomist ambitions has been split, but
that's just a guess.
Ivan Sarajcic , 7 May 2000
![[Vojvodina Coalition]](../images/y/yu}kv.gif)
by Ivan Sache
During demonstrations in 1999, the Vojvodina Coalition (farmers' movement led by Dragan Veselinov) used an horizontally divided blue-yellow-green flag with the party name in white in upper hoist.
Source: M. Corbic, Franciae Vexilla [frv] #19/65, September 2000
![[Alliance of Vojvodina Hungarians]](../images/y/yu}vmsz.gif)
by Istvan Molnar
This party is the largest Hungarian party in Yugoslavia. The current mayor of Subotica is member of the party.
Istvan Molnar, 10 December 2000