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Flags hoisted Wednesday to celebrate National Flag Day

  • 2025-06-04
  • BNS/TBT Staff

TALLINN - Wednesday is National Flag Day in Estonia and to mark the occasion, all state and local government authorities and legal persons governed by public law are to hoist the Estonian flag, however, everyone else may also hoist the flag for the occasion.

Flags are hoisted at 8 a.m. at the latest and lowered at 10 p.m.

The first blue-black-and-white flag was sewn in spring 1884. It was blessed and consecrated at Otepää parsonage in southern Estonia on June 4, 1884. This year, Estonia celebrates the 141st anniversary of the consecration of the national flag of Estonia.

 

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