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Friday 9 March 2018

0121-122 Estonia Flag of country FOTW70

Sent: 22.01.2017
Received: 26.01.17
Travel time 4 days

Sender myself from Talinn :) 







Sent: 23.09.2016
Received: 27.09.2017
Travel time 4 days.

Sender Janne (a good friend from Estonia - Paide)



The national flag of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti lipp) is a tricolour featuring three equal horizontal bands of blue (top), black, and white. The normal size is 105 by 165 centimetres (41 in × 65 in). In Estonian it is colloquially called the "sinimustvalge" (literally "blue-black-white"), after the colours of the bands.
First adopted on 21 November 1918 after its independence, it was used as an national flag until 1940 when the Soviet Union and Germany occupied Estonia. After World War II, from 1944 to 1990, the Soviet Estonian flag consisted first of a generic red Soviet flag with the name of the republic, then changed to the red flag with a band of blue water waves near the bottom. The Estonian flag, which was also used by the Estonian government-in-exile, was officially re-adopted 7 August 1990 one year before its official restoration of independence.

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