Editing Flag of the Netherlands (section)

====Pan-Slavic colours====
{{See also|Pan-Slavic colours}}
The Russian flag in turn is believed to have influenced many flags of other Slavic countries, resulting in many red-white-blue styled tribands in other parts of Europe, and also the red-white-green flag of Bulgaria. [[Peter the Great]] of Russia was building a new Russian Navy mostly on Dutch standards; therefore the [[Merchant flag|merchant]] [[flag of Russia]] at sea would be the inverted colours of the [[Statenvlag|Dutch flag]].<ref name=":7" />

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File:Flag of Russia.svg|[[Flag of Russia]], as reference
File:Flag of Bulgaria.svg|[[Flag of Bulgaria]]
File:Flag of Croatia.svg|[[Flag of Croatia]]
File:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg|[[Flag of the Czech Republic]]
File:Flag of Slovakia.svg|[[Flag of Slovakia]]
File:Flag of Slovenia.svg|[[Flag of Slovenia]]
File:Flag of Serbia.svg|[[Flag of Serbia]]
File:Flag of Yugoslavia (1918–1941; 1992–2006) (3-5).svg|{{FIAV|historical}} [[Flag of Yugoslavia]] (1918–1941; 1992–2006)
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