Mordovia (Russia)

Mordoviâ

Last modified: 2006-07-29 by antonio martins
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Мордовия

• Presentation of Mordovia
• Description of the flag
• Coat of arms
• Erzian ethnic flag

• Previous flags (1990’ies)
• Mordovia in the Soviet Union, 1920-1992
• Russia
• Russian subnational flags (overview of the subdivisions, list of federation “subjects” and clickable map)

• Mordvian flag and arms
  reported by István Molnár, 04 Dec 2001
• Mordvian flag
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 18 Dec 1998

Presentation of Mordovia

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• Name (english): Mordovia • (russian, short form): Мордовия | Mordoviâ • (russian, long form): Республика Мордовия | Respublika Mordoviâ
• Local official languages: Erzian and Mokshian
  
• Capital: Саранск | Saransk
• Area: 26 200 km² (≅10 100 sq.mi.) • Population: 920 300 inhabitants in 2000
• Status: Republic (Республика | Respublika) within the Russian Federation
• Federal District: Central Region • Economic region: Volga-Vyatka
• License plate code: 13 • Ham radio code: MD • ISO 3166-2 code: MO
• Flag adopted on 1995.03.30 • Coat of arms adopted on 1995.03.30

Not to be confused with the Moldavians, the Mordovians are, like the Mari, a Finno-Ugric people. A Mordovian ASSR was created in 1934.
Stuart Notholt, 05 Oct 1995

Description of the flag

Constitutional act No. 98/I about flag of Republic of Mordovia was accepted 30.3.1995 in Saransk:

Flag of republic has three horizontal stripes of brown-red, white and dark blue (1:2:1). In the centre is brown-red sun symbol. Proportions of flag being 1:2.

[See also the construction sheet from this law, sent by Petr Exner, 30 Jan 1996]

This flag, in medium blue, is listed under number 87 at the chart Flags of Aspirant Peoples [eba94] as: «Mordovia (Mordovians) [Moksha] - Central Russia.».
Ivan Sache, 15 Sep 1999

According to Jiri Tenora [jtn02], the sun symbol on the flag of Mordovia is divided into four parts symbolizing the four Mordovian tribes.
Ivan Sache, 18 Apr 2002

Coat of arms

Constitutional act No. 92-I about coat of arms of Republic of Mordovia was accepted 30.3.1995 in Saransk:

In the centre of coat of arms is shield (brown-red, white, dark blue) with little shield of Saransk in its centre.

Erzian ethnic flag

In the number 2/2001 of Alkukoti I found an interesting map chart [alk01] with the living areas and flags of the different Finno-Ugric peoples. It shows a simple white-red-black triband for the Erza Mordvins (one of the two related Mordvin tribes; the other one is Moksha).
Marco Pribilla, 02 Feb 2002

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