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The Official Ceremonial Flag]] The Ornamental Flag]] The national Flag of Argentina dates from 1812 . It is a Triband , composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blue, white and light blue. In 1818 , a yellow Sun Of May was added to the center. The full flag featuring the sun is called the Official Ceremonial Flag ( terms, the Official Ceremony Flag is the civil, state and war flag and Ensign , while the Ornamental Flag is an alternate civil flag and ensign. OFFICIAL DESCRIPTION Shape and size From , the Incan god of the Sun. Flags with proportions of 1:2 and 2:3 are also in use. Colours The Colour s are subject to discussion, and there is no official position on colour usage. The Spanish word ''celeste'' (cerulean blue) is used to describe the colour of the blue stripes. Cerulean blue's is defined by Pantone as N21-01, which equals "155, 196, 226" in RGB notation. Sun of May The sun, called the Sun Of May , is a replica of an engraving on The First Argentine Coin , approved in 1813, whose value was eight ''escudos'' (one Spanish dollar). It has 16 straight and 16 waved sunbeams. In 1978 the sun colour was specified to be golden yellow (''amarillo oro''), to have an inner diameter of 10 cm, and an outer diameter of 25 cm (the diameter of the sun equals the height of the white stripe. The sun's face is of its height). It features 32 rays, 16 undulated and 16 straight, in alternation and from 1978 it must be embroidered in the "Official Flag Ceremony". HISTORY Creation ]] According to tradition, during the Argentine War Of Independence General Manuel Belgrano was commanding a battle near Rosario . He noticed that both The Crown 's forces and the independence forces were using the same colors ( Spain 's yellow and red). After realizing this, Belgrano created a new flag using the colors that were used by the '' Criollos '' during the May Revolution in 1810 . However, recent research and studies would indicate that the colors were chosen from the coat of arms of the House Of Bourbon the royal family of Spain, and that during the May Revolution the color used by the criollos was a red piece of cloth, as pointed by the popular historian Felipe Pigna . Also, apparently the original flag was quite different from the current one: it had two vertical stripes, one blue and the other one white. The flag was first flown, for the soldiers to swear allegiance to it, on 27 February 1812 , on the ''Batería Libertad'' (Liberty Battery), by the Paraná River . On that day, Belgrano said the following words Belgrano dispatched a letter addressed to the First Junta , informing them of the newly created flag. The Junta, fearing the Spanish Crown, sent a warning to Belgrano not to fight under the flag, but by the time the reply had arrived, Belgrano had moved on, and was flying the flag on the battlefield. The letter contained the following passage: The flag was hoisted for the first time in Buenos Aires atop the Saint Nicholas of Bari Church on August 23 , 1812 (where nowadays the '' Obelisco '' is located). After the Declaration Of Independence on July 9 , 1816 , the flag was adopted as a symbol by the Argentine National Congress . Changes On February 25 , 1818 , a sun was added to the battle flag. The sun was copied after the one that the first Argentine coin featured in 1813. It was subsequently decided to be part of the regular flag afterwards, and thus the sun no longer represents war. On June 8 , 1938 , president Roberto Ortiz sanctioned a law declaring June 20 " Flag Day ", a national holiday (the date was decided after the anniversary of Belgrano's death). In 1957 the National Flag Memorial (a 10,000 m&2 monumental complex) was inaugurated in Rosario to commemorate the creation of the flag, and the official Flag Day ceremonies have been customarily conducted in its vicinity since then. In 1978 it was specified, among other measurements, that the Official Ceremony Flag should be 1.4 meters in width and 0.9 meters in height, and that the sun must be embroidered. INFLUENCE OF THE ARGENTINE FLAG ON THE FLAGS OF OTHER COUNTRIES The Argentine commander Louis-Michel Aury (also spelled ''Luis Aury'') used the Argentine flag as a model for the blue-white-blue flag of the first independent state in central America, which was created 1818 in Isla De Providencia , an island off the east coast of Nicaragua . This state existed until approximately 1821, before Colombia took over control of these islands. Somewhat later (1823) this flag was again the model for the flag of the United Provinces Of Central America , a confederation of the current central American states of Guatemala , Honduras , El Salvador , Nicaragua and Costa Rica , which existed from 1823 to 1838. After the dissolution of the Union, the five countries became independent, but even today all of these states except Costa Rica use flags of blue-white-blue stripes. The Argentine flag also inspired the flags of Uruguay , Paraguay and Peru . ANTHEMS TO THE FLAG Aurora (Sunrise) By: H. C. Quesada, L. Illica, H. Panizza. Salve Argentina (Long live Argentina) By: Leopoldo Corretjer. Mi Bandera (My Flag) Lyrics: Juan Chassaing Music: Juan Imbroisi MYTHS ABOUT THE FLAG The popular interpretation of the flag is that it represents the Sky , Cloud s and Sun . However, there are several theories stories about the colors of the flag. One says that the blue symbolizes the clothing of the Virgin Mary and the white symbolizes Silver (the name "Argentina" comes from the Latin word for silver, ''argentum''). Another story states that the colors are based on those of the House Of Bourbon , and a third suggests that they are derived from the Río De La Plata (literally "River of Silver"). It is not known with certainty that Belgrano created the flag, but during the wars of independence against Spain, he was the first to use it, even though the ''criollo'' government didn't approve it. Another popular belief is that the version with the sun is a war flag while the sunless version is not, but while this was originally the case after the approval of Congress in 1818, it was changed afterwards. EXTERNAL LINKS
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