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The flag of Jordan, officially adopted on 16 April 1928, is based on the 1916 flag of the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. [1] The flag consists of horizontal black, white, and green bands that are connected by a red chevron .
All-Palestine Protectorate: Flag of the Arab Revolt. 1948–1958: Flag of the Kingdom of Egypt and the Co-Official Flag of the Arab Republic of Egypt: Green flag with a white crescent containing three five-pointed white stars. 1948–1967: Jordanian-annexed West Bank: Flag of Jordan, used during occupation of West Bank. 1952–1958
Pan-Arab colors, used individually in the past, were first combined in 1916 in the flag of the Arab Revolt or Flag of Hejaz. [11] Many current flags are based on Arab Revolt colors, such as the flags of Jordan, Kuwait, Palestine, the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, and the United Arab Emirates. [12]
Flags of Arab countries, territories, and organisations usually include the color green, which is a symbol of Islam as well as an emblem of purity, fertility and peace. Common colors in Arab flags are Pan-Arab colors (red, black, white and green); common symbols include stars , crescents and the Shahada .
This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. State of Palestine Use National flag Proportion 1:2 Adopted 28 May 1964 ; 60 years ago (1964-05-28) (PLO) 15 November 1988 ; 36 years ago (1988-11-15) (State of Palestine) Design A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and green; with a red triangle based at the hoist. Use Presidential standard ...
Black flags were raised by Palestinians when Balfour visited Jerusalem and almost 250 Jews and Arabs were killed and many more wounded in August 1929 at the Wailing Wall in a tragedy that became ...
The Shrewsbury resident is Jewish, immigrated to the U.S. from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in the 1990s and preferred if both the Israel and Palestine flags flew together ...
The flag is similar to the flags of Jordan, the Kingdom of Iraq, and Western Sahara, all of which draw their inspiration from the Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule (1916–1918). The flag of the Arab Revolt had the same graphic form as the Flag of the Arab Federation and Palestine , but the colors were arranged differently (white on the bottom ...