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The national flag of Burundi was adopted on March 28, 1967. Events 37 - Roman Emperor Caligula accepts the titles of the Principate, entitled to him by the Senate. Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. The green colour symbolizes hope, the white symbolises purity, and red the struggle for independence. Green is a Color, the perception of which is evoked by light having a spectrum dominated by energy with a Wavelength of roughly 520–570- nm. Hope is a Belief in a positive outcome related to events and Circumstances in one's life White is a Color, the perception which is evoked by Light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive Cone cells in the Human eye Red is any of a number of similar Colors evoked by light consisting predominantly of the longest wavelengths of Light discernible by the human eye in the wavelength The flag has a basic white saltire that divides the field into four areas, two green, and two red. St Andrew's Cross redirects here For the item of BDSM furniture see Saint Andrew's Cross (BDSM A saltire, Saint Andrew's Cross In the centre is a circle that contains three stars which stand for the three major ethnic groups of Burundi: the Hutu, the Twa and the Tutsi. Circles are simple Shapes of Euclidean geometry consisting of those points in a plane which are at a constant Distance, called the A star is a massive luminous ball of plasma. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun, which is the source of most of the Energy on Earth Burundi (buˈɾundi officially the Republic of Burundi, is a small country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda The The Twa, also known as Batwa, are a Pygmy people who were the oldest recorded inhabitants of the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa The Tutsi are one of three native Peoples of the nations of Rwanda and Burundi in central Africa, the other two being the Twa The three stars also stand for the three elements of the national motto: unity, work and progress. Wage labour is the socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer in which the worker sells their labour under a Contract ( Employment

Former Flags

Flag from July 1, 1962 to November 28, 1966

Flag used on November 28 and November 29 of 1966

Flag from November 29, 1966 to March 28, 1967

External links

Burundi at Flags of the World

For a list of flags see List of flags or Gallery of flags by design.

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