Armenia celebrates National Flag Day on June 15

Armenia annually celebrates National Flag Day on June 15. This holiday was established by the National Assembly of Armenia on June 15, 2006.

The national Armenian flag is called Yeraguyn (meaning tricolour). It consists of three horizontal equal stripes of red, blue and orange colours (the last one is often called as the colour of apricot). The current Armenian flag was adopted on August 24, 1990, and replaced the flag of Soviet Armenia.

There are many interpretations of flag colours, one of them says, that red stands for bloodshed by 1.5 million Armenians in the Armenian Genocide, blue is for pure sky and orange is for country’s courage.

The official version of the color definition is stated in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia. It says, that red represents the Armenian Highland and people’s struggle for survival, blue symbolizes the will of Armenian people to live under the peaceful sky and orange stands for creative talent and hard-working nature of Armenians.