Why are the colors of the flags of many European countries red, white and blue?

The tricolor flag of European countries, people naturally think of the red, white and blue flag of France, which may be related to the influence of French culture. As we all know, the red, white and blue tricolor represents liberty, equality and fraternity, and is the flag of the bourgeois revolution. 1789 July 14, the French Revolutionary period, the National Army commander Rapha?ltte in the city of Paris between the representative colors --- blue and red, plus a symbol of the French royal family of the white. As the cap badge of the National Army, the famous tricolor flag was born. The flag has a rectangular vertical strip of blue, white and red colors in order from the side near the flagpole, with a width of 30%, 33% and 37% respectively. In Western Europe, the red, white and blue tricolor flag is also used in the Netherlands and Luxembourg. On the flags of the two countries, both are composed of three parallel red, white and blue rectangles from top to bottom, the only difference being the different shades of blue.In 1568, the Dutch waved the orange, white and blue tricolor flag in revolt against Spanish colonial rule, and later replaced the orange with red in order to be easily recognizable in battles and on sea voyages. Historically, Luxembourg and the Netherlands had **** formed a federation. After Luxembourg's independence, the flag was officially changed to red, white and light blue to show the difference with the Dutch flag.

In terms of geography, on the European continent, the flag adopts the most red, white and blue colors, to belong to the Central and Eastern European countries. This is because, red, white and blue are the colors of the Slavic peoples, so the main national belongs to the Pan-Slavic countries, such as Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia **** and the country, Croatia, Slovenia and other countries of the national flag are to red, white and blue, the difference between them is only the color block arranged in a different way, and some are just the same three-color flag on the bottom of the child to add a different The national emblem is added to the base of the same three-color flag. Historically, these nation-states have been united and divided several times, and their national flags have changed accordingly. The Russian flag is rectangular, consisting of three equal parallel rectangles, white, blue and red from top to bottom. The flag of the Czech **** and State is the same as that of Russia, but is arranged so that the triangle on one side of the flagpole is blue, with white in the upper right of the flag field and red below. The Czechs and Slovaks belong to the same Slavic ethnic group, and the home of the Czechs is the ancient kingdom of Bohemia, a kingdom whose colors were red and white, while the blue color came from the colors of the original Moravian and Slovakian provincial coat of arms. After the dramatic changes in Eastern Europe, in 1993, the Czech Republic and Slovakia were officially separated and each was established as an independent and sovereign entity. The Czech Republic continues to use the original tricolor flag as its national flag. Slovakia adopted a rectangular flag with white, blue and red colors divided from top to bottom, with the Slovak coat of arms painted in the left center of the flag field. The tricolor flag was also the flag of the Yugoslav people's resistance to colonial rule. 1804, the Yugoslavs in the Serbian region launched an uprising against the Turks by hoisting the tricolor flag, and in December 1918, when the Kingdom of Serbo-Croatia-Slovenia was established, the tricolor flag was officially adopted as the national flag. "In 1991, after the dissolution of the former Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro*** established the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia***, which adopted the 1918 tricolor flag, with blue, white and red colors evenly spaced from top to bottom, each occupying 1/3 of the flag's surface.The Slovenian flag is a rectangle of white, blue and red from top to bottom, while the Croatian flag is a rectangle of white, blue and red from top to bottom. Croatia's flag is red, white and blue from top to bottom, both flags are painted with their respective coats of arms.