Editing Flag of the Netherlands (section)

===Statenvlag===
[[File:Statenvlag.svg|thumb|[[File:FIAV historical.svg|23px]]The {{lang|nl|[[Statenvlag]]}} (1652–1795)|border]]
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Red as replacement for orange appeared as early as 1597, but more often after about 1630, as indicated by paintings of that time. Red gradually replaced orange (1630–60) as a sign of political change and growing dissociation of the Republic from the House of Orange.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=scHXHTkRmZcC&pg=PA23 |title=Flag, Nation and Symbolism in Europe and America |last1=Eriksen |first1=Thomas Hylland |last2=Jenkins |first2=Richard |date=18 October 2007 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781134066964 |pages=23 |language=en }}</ref> It appears that prior to 1664, the red-white-blue tricolour was commonly known as the "Flag of Holland" ({{lang|nl|Hollandsche Vlag}}); named after one of the revolting provinces. In 1664, the [[States of Zeeland]], one of the other revolting provinces, complained about this, and a resolution of the [[States General of the Netherlands|States-General]] introduced the name "States Flag" ({{lang|nl|Statenvlag}}), which the red, white and blue tricolour will be known hereafter.<ref>JC de Jonge, Geschiedenis van het Nederlandse zeewesen, deel 1. 's Gravenhage, 1833, p. 75.</ref> The Dutch navy between 1588 and 1630 had always displayed the Prince's Flag, and after 1663 always the States Flag, with both flag variants being in use during the period of 1630–1662.<ref>C. de Waard, "De Nederlandsche vlag" in: ''Het Vaderland'' (1900).</ref>

The red-white-blue triband flag as used in the 17th century is said to have influenced the designs of both the seminal [[Flag of Russia|Russian flag]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jt450XgGd1kC |title=The Flags of the World: Their History, Blazonry and Associations |last=Hulme |first=Frederick Edward |date=1 January 1897 |publisher=Library of Alexandria |isbn=9781465543110 |language=en}}
{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xWdOBAAAQBAJ&q=russian+flag+dutch+flag&pg=PA228 |title=Foreign Correspondent: A Memoir |last=Greenway |first=H. D. S. |date=19 August 2014 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=9781476761329 |pages=228 |language=en }}</ref> and the [[French flag]].<ref name=":4"/> In turn, these two flags would later influence many others.