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A depiction of a tugh appears in the Relation d'un voyage du Levant by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1718). [1] War flags came into use by the 16th century. During the 16th and 17th centuries, Ottoman war flags often depicted the bifurcated Zulfiqar sword, often misinterpreted in Western literature as showing a pair of scissors. [2]
The white star and crescent moon on red as the flag of the Ottoman Empire was introduced 1844. [2] After the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the new administrative regime maintained the last flag of the Ottoman Empire. Proportional standardizations were introduced in the Turkish Flag Law of 1936. [3] 1923–present
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... [1] 1902 [2] 1910 1911 1912 [3] 1914 1920 1926 1928 1934 1939 1943 ... List of sovereign states by date of current flag ...
The crescent and star are from the 19th-century Ottoman flag (1844–1923) which also forms the basis of the present-day Turkish flag. Following the abolition of the Sultanate on 1 November 1922, the Ottoman coat of arms was no longer used and the crescent and star became Turkey's de facto national emblem. In the national identity cards of the ...
The national flag of Turkey, officially the Turkish flag [2] (Turkish: Türk bayrağı), is a red flag featuring a white crescent and star on its emblem, It’s based on the 18th-century Ottoman Empire flag. [3] The flag is often called "the red flag" (al bayrak), and is referred to as "the red banner" (al sancak) in the Turkish national anthem ...
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English: Flag of the Ottoman Empire (c. 1750s). A variety of Ottoman naval flags with crescents are recorded in Western sources during the 18th century. Flaggen aller seefahrenden Nationen shows several Turkish naval flags with three crescents (heraldic decrescents, horns pointing away from the hoist as in the later Ottoman flag)
Flag of the Ottoman Empire: Red field with a green disc in the center and 3 golden crescent moons inside the disc. 1793–1837: Flag of the Ottoman Empire: A red field with a white crescent moon and a 8–pointed star. 1574–1705: Flag of the Ottoman Tunisia: A red field with 3 golden crescent moons off–centered towards the hoist. 1705–1827