The national flag of Slovenia features three equal horizontal bands of white, blue, and red, with the Slovenian coat of arms located on the upper side of the flag centered in the white and blue bands. The coat of arms is a shield with the image of Mount Triglav, the highest peak in Slovenia, in white on a blue background in the center; below are two wavy blue lines representing the Adriatic Sea and local rivers, and above are three golden six-pointed stars arranged in an inverted triangle that are taken from the coat of arms of the counts of Celje, the great Slovenian dynastic house of late of the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries.  

The colors of the flag are considered to be pan-Slavic, but actually come from the medieval coat of arms of the Duchy of Carniola, which consists of a blue eagle on a white background with a red and gold crescent. The existing Slovenian tricolor was raised for the first time in history during the Revolution of 1848 by the Slovenian romantic nationalist activist and poet Lovro Toman on April 7, 1848, in Ljubljana, in response to a German flag being raised on top of the Ljubljana Castle.

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