The flag of Friuli Venezia Giulia is a single-coloured light blue flag and shows in the middle a flying up golden eagle perching on a rock. The eagle goes back to the Patriarchate of Aquileia, an ecclesiastical state that existed in this region between 1000 and 1420. The flag image is simplified, by placing a golden stripe in the middle of a blue flag.
8000 B.C. · from Illyrians, Iberians and Ligurians as well as later immigrated Celts and Etruscians evolves the people of the Raetians
ca. 5 A.D. · Roman conquest, Friuli (Friaul) comes to the Province of Italia
ca. 400 · conquest by the Eastern Goth
476 · dismissal of the last Roman emperor Romulus Augustulus, end of the (West)Roman Empire, Friuli (Friaul) belongs until 493 to the Empire of the Odoaker
535 · conquest by Byzanz (East Rome)
568 · conquest by the Langobardes, Friuli (Friaul) becomes a Langobardian duchy
774 · conquest by the Franks, Friuli (Friaul) becomes a margraviate of the Frankish Empire
843 · at the division of the Frankish Empire comes Friuli (Friaul) to the Kingdom of Italy
961 · Otto I. brings Friuli (Friaul) to the German Kingdom, the Margraviate of Friuli (Friaul) gets later incorporated into the Margraviate of Verona of the Roman-German Kingdom
1077 · Friuli (Friaul) gets subordinated under the Patriarch of Aquileia and becomes a clerical principality (Patriarchate of Aquileia)
1420 · Venice conquers Western Friuli (80% of the area of the Patriarchate of Aquileia)
1500 · Eastern Friuli (County of Goerz) comes as heritage to the House of Habsburg
1797 · Napolèon invades Northern Italy and incorporates the territories of the Republic of Venice into various satellite states
