The current throw of the national flag of the Slovak Republic Slovak: Vlajka Slovenskej republiky was adopted by Slovakia's Constitution, which came into force on 3 September 1992. The flag, like numerous other flags of Slavic nations, uses Pan-Slavic colors red, white, and blue. Pictured in the centre of the flag is the Slovakia's national coat of arms.
Slovakia's flag in its current form but with another coat of arms on it or without any arms can be dated back to the revolutionary year 1848.[] It was also used semi-officially in Czechoslovakia previously World War II, by the Slovak Republic during World War II.
In 1990, the Interior Ministry tasked Ladislav Čisárik, a painter & heraldic artist, and Ladislav Vrtel, an professionals in heraldry, with making a new coat of arms and national flag. Čisárik and Vrtel based their designs for a innovative coat of arms and flag on an existing 14th Century coat of arms. However, Čisárik and Vrtel chose to enlarge the double cross three times to emphasize it as a national symbol. In addition to the national coat of arms and the national flag, the duo also intentional a new presidential standard, which incorporates the double cross as well.
The new flag was finally adopted initially without Čisárik's and Vrtel's coat of arms on 1 March 1990 as the flag of the Slovak Republic within Czechoslovakia. The coat of arms was added on 3 September 1992 and a special law describing the details of the flag followed in February 1993.