The flag of the province Vojvodina was adoped in the year 2004 and shows three horizontal stripes in the colours red, blue and white and in the middle of the widen blue stripe three golden five-point stars. The colours of the flag are the colours of Serbia. In this way is expressed the political affiliation. The three stars stand for the three landscapes of which the Vojvodina consists (Batchka, Banat and Sirmia), and they should give the flag an "european" look.
1918 · Sirmia, Banat and Batchka become as "Vojvodina" a Serbian province and in this way a part of the "Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes", which was renamed in 1929 into Yugoslavia
1941 · Yugoslavia gets dissolved during the Second World War, the Batchka is ceded to Hungary, Banat and Sirmia come as parts of Serbia under German military government
1941–1946 · Yugoslavia is during the Second World War location of a merciless partisan and civil war between communists (under J.B.Tito), republicans, monarchists and nationalists, the communists prevailed
29th of November in 1945 · the whole Vojvodina becomes as Serbian province a part of the by Tito proclaimed "Federative People's Republic of Yugoslavia"
17th of April in 1963 · new constitution, renamed into "Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", Vojvodina becomes an autonomous province
1990 · reform of constitution, the autonomy status of the Vojvodina is abolished
1991–1992 · Yugoslavia dissolves into its particular states
27th of April in 1992 · Serbia and Montenegro proclaim the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia"
2002 · Wojvodina's autonomy is being restored limitedly
The name Vojvodina goes back to the creation of the crown land "Serbian Vojvodina" of the Austrian Empire in 1849, when the Bačka and the Banat were separated from the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary to protect the rights of the non-Hungarian inhabitants. The crown land existed until 1860, when the territories were reunited with Hungary. The name contains the Serbian word "Vojvode", which means "army commander".
