{"id":630,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/horizontal-tricolour\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:32","slug":"horizontal-tricolour","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/sl\/glossary\/horizontal-tricolour\/","title":{"rendered":"Horizontal tricolour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **horizontal tricolour** is a flag divided into three bands of equal width running parallel to the fly. The horizontal tricolour was popularised in the nineteenth century as a republican and national form, often inspired directly by the Dutch *Prinsenvlag* of the seventeenth century, the earliest known national tricolour. Many modern flags follow the pattern, varying only in colour and in the addition of a charge.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The flags of Germany (black-red-gold), the Netherlands (red-white-blue) and the Russian Federation (white-blue-red) are all horizontal tricolours.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [vertical-tricolour](\/glossary\/vertical-tricolour\/), [tricolour](\/glossary\/tricolour\/), [bicolour](\/glossary\/bicolour\/), [pan-slavic-colors](\/glossary\/pan-slavic-colors\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-630","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/sl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}