Budapest arms & colours. Throughout the centuries (Budapest, 1998)

Gárdonyi, 1929 18 The banner of Budapest, as created in 1873, had the same colours — although not the same stripes — as the national colours of the royal state of Rumania, founded in 1881. After the Treaty of Trianon in 1920, when Transylvania was annexed to Rumania by the triumphant great powers, a movement of protest was launched against the treaty, one of its demands being to have the colours of the city changed. 19 Only the coat of arms has been preserved in the Budapest City Archives /see Plate IX/, we have no records of the banner, presumably there was no coloured imprint made. The Decree of the Minister of the Interior, * 172.222/1930-11., gives reference only of the attested arms imprint. 20 Hungary's form of state from 1949 to 1989 is People's Republic 21 1949:Art.XXVI. about the creation of Greater Budapest: the cities of Budafok, Csepel, Kispest, Pesterzsébet, Pestszentlőrinc, Rákospalota, Újpest, and the villages of Albertfalva, Békásmegyer, Budatétény, Cinkota, Mátyásföld, Nagytétény, Pesthidegkút, Pestszentimre, Pestújhely, Rákoscsaba, Rákoshegy, Rákoskeresztúr, Rákosliget, Rákosszentmihály, Sashalom and Soroksár. 2

~ The minutes of the Executive Committee Meeting of the City of Budapest, Feb.

5/ June 8.1964