What do the colors on the Croatian flag represent?

Answer 1

The red, white and blue colors are Slavic colors and are also used by a lot of other Slavic countries, such as Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Serbia etc.

There was a Croatian writer who saw something else in the colors of the Croatian flag. Red is representing the blood that many Croatians have lost when they fought for their country, white is representing the peace in the coutnry, and blue is representing the subjection to God (because we Croats are very religious, we're all Catholics)

The Coat of arms of Croatia consists of one main shield and five smaller shields which form a crown over the main shield. The main coat of arms is a checkerboard (chequy) that consists of 13 red and 12 silver (white) fields. It's commonly known as Å¡ahovnica ("chessboard", from Å¡ah, "chess" in Croatian.) The five smaller shields represent five different historical regions that comprise Croatia.

1. the oldest known Croatian coat of arms: a golden six-pointed star (representing the mornign star) over a silver moon on a blue shield. It is also representing the Croatian capital, Zagreb.
2. an older coat of arms of the Republic of Dubrovnik : two red stripes on a dark blue shield. The coat of arms on the flags and stone portals of Dubrovnik were painted black as a sign of grief by Dubrovnik' s citizens after the invasion by Napoleon.
3. the coat of arms of Dalmatia : three golden, crowned leopards , two over one, on a blue shield. This coat of arms originates from the Roman Emperor Diocletian who made his palace (the core of city of Split) the capital of the Western Roman Empire. His palace, to this day, still stands in Split.
4. the coat of arms of Istria: a golden goat with red hooves and horns, on a dark blue shield.
5. the coat of arms of Slavonia: two silver stripes on blue shield (representing the rivers Drava and Sava that mark the northern and the southern border of Slavonia), between them on a red field a black, running marten (kuna in Croatian - note national currency is related to the marten - Croatian kuna), above a six-pointed, golden star. This coat was to Slavonia was officially recognised by king Ladislaus Jagiello in 1496.

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1. belive it is Illyrian arms, since Illyrians are ancestors of the Croats.

EDIT

Illyrians weren't ancestors of the Croats, they had just lived there before.

Answer 2

The blue represents the European flag color, the yellow represents gold as is Kosova is golden, and finally the 6 stars represent the different nationalities that live in Kosova.