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  2. Crescent and star (symbol) - Wikipedia

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    The star, or Sun, is often shown within the arc of the crescent (also called star in crescent, or star within crescent, for disambiguation of depictions of a star and a crescent side by side). [8] In numismatics in particular, the term crescent and pellet is used in cases where the star is simplified to a single dot.

  3. Symbols of Islam - Wikipedia

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    The crescent is usually associated with Islam and regarded as its symbol. The crescent and star had been used in the coinage of the Sassanid Persian Empire. The Umayyad Caliphate, after the Rashidun Caliphate's conquest of the region, continue to use similar coins with some modification but leaving the star and crescent intact.

  4. Crescent - Wikipedia

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    A crescent shape (/ ˈ k r ɛ s ən t /, UK also / ˈ k r ɛ z ən t /) [1] is a symbol or emblem used to represent the lunar phase (as it appears in the northern hemisphere) in the first quarter (the "sickle moon"), or by extension a symbol representing the Moon itself.

  5. Religious symbol - Wikipedia

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    Star and crescent: 1900s The star and crescent symbol was used as the flag of the Ottoman Empire from 1844. It was only gradually associated with Islam, in particular due to its ubiquitous use in the decorations of Ottoman mosques in the late 19th century.

  6. Astronomical symbols - Wikipedia

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    a fish with a star. This is the original symbol from the brief period when this asteroid was known and astronomers were still using iconic symbols. [60] [88] U+1F77A (dec 128890) 🝺 a lyre. This symbol only appears in later 19th-century reference works that appeared when iconic symbols for asteroids had already become obsolete. [45] 12 ...

  7. Islamic flag - Wikipedia

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    The star-and-crescent in the Flag of Pakistan is stated as symbolizing "progress and light" (while the green colour is stated as representing Islam). The star-and-crescent in these flags was not originally intended as religious symbolism, but an association of the symbol with Islam seems to have developed beginning in the 1950s or 1960s. [34]

  8. Flags of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    The crescent and star is found on the coinage of Byzantium since the 4th century BC [11] and was depicted on Byzantine Empire's coins and shields of Christian warrior saints till the 13th century. [12] Parsons (2007) notes that the star and crescent was not a widespread motive on the coinage of Byzantium at the time of the Ottoman conquest. [13]

  9. List of symbolic stars - Wikipedia

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    Star of Ishtar, an ancient symbol associated with the Mesopotamian goddess Ishtar; Star and crescent, an Islamic symbol; The Star (Tarot card), one of the Major Arcana; Druze star, a symbol of the Druze religion; Marian star, a six-pointed star used as a Roman Catholic symbol of celestial objects; Rub el Hizb, a common Islamic symbol