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Egypt became a republic in 1953, the year after King Farouk was toppled in the revolution, and several proposals for a new national flag were made combining elements of the old flag of the kingdom with the 1952 Egyptian Revolution Flag.
The national flag of Egypt (عَلَمْ مِصر [ˈʕælæm mɑsˤɾ]) is a tricolour consisting of the three equal horizontal red, white, and black bands of the Egyptian revolutionary flag that dates back to the 1952 Egyptian Revolution.
The Kingdom of Egypt (Arabic: المملكة المصرية, romanized: Al-Mamlaka Al-Miṣreyya, lit. 'The Egyptian Kingdom') was the legal form of the Egyptian state during the latter period of the Muhammad Ali dynasty 's reign, from the United Kingdom's recognition of Egyptian independence in 1922 until the abolition of the monarchy of Egypt ...
flag of Egypt. horizontally striped red-white-black national flag with a central coat of arms in the form of a gold eagle. The flag has a width-to-length ratio of 2 to 3.
The National Flag of Egypt was officially adopted on October 4, 1984. The National Flag of Egypt is a horizontal tricolor featuring three equal horizontal bands of red (top), white, and black. The national emblem of Egypt (in gold and white) is centered in the white band.
Description of the flag and construction sheet. "Although the revolution was suppressed, continued agitation led to the termination of the British protectorate in 1922. Fuad I adopted a distinctive national flag (...) on 10 December 1923 (...) three white stars arranged within a single crescent standing for Muslims, Christians, and Jews living ...
Flag of the Kingdom of Egypt (1922–1953) and co-official flag of the Republic of Egypt (1953–1958) | Photo Credit: WikiCommons Kingdom of Egypt. By 1922, the United Kingdom withdrew from Egypt as well, formally recognizing it as an independent state on the sole clause that the monarchy refrain from using sultanate terminology.
In the middle of the flag, there is a bold eagle, which was taken as the emblem of the Republic. After Egypt became a Kingdom, the flag was changed again. In 1914, after World War I, Sultan Hussein Kamel ruled Egypt which was declared a British protectorate and Khedive Ismail’s flag was reused.
The current flag of the Arab Republic of Egypt consists of red, white and black horizontal stripes. Red represents the sacrifices and blood of Egyptian martyrs, white symbolizes peace, black stands for the dark period of occupation, and the eagle represents strength and power.
The first national flag of modern Egypt was established by a Royal Decree in 1923 when Egypt gained conditional independence from Great Britain in 1922. The color was green with a white crescent and three white stars in the middle.