Flag of Kazakhstan

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Flag of Kazakhstan
Flag of Kazakhstan.svg
Vexillological symbol : National flag on land and commercial flag at sea?
Aspect ratio: 1: 2
Officially accepted: 4th June 1992

The flag of Kazakhstan was introduced on June 4, 1992. It shows various traditional elements and symbols.

Description and meaning

Waving flag

The national flag consists of a sky-blue cloth and shows a gold-colored pattern on its left edge. This weaving pattern is said to represent the folk art of the Kazak khanate or the Kazakh people. In the middle of the flag there is a golden sun with 32 rays and a steppe eagle below the sun . Due to its golden color, the eagle is sometimes incorrectly referred to in German as the “golden eagle”. But it is the steppe eagle ( Aquila nipalensis ). The design comes from Schaken Nijasbekow .

The eagle in the flag symbolizes the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan . According to legend, this led blue banners with an eagle symbol. Today's Kazakhstan was subjugated and incorporated by the Mongols between 1219 and 1222. With the symbol of the steppe eagle, today's predominantly Turkic population clearly recognizes their Mongolian past.

Colours

The sky-blue bunting is originally for today's Turkic people of the Kazakhs . But it is also a sign that the Kazak people mainly emerged from a merger of Central Asian Turkic peoples with the Mongols . For these peoples the color blue had a religious meaning - it stood for the high "sky god Gök-Tanry ", the "eternal wide blue sky". Today the blue color only symbolizes the wide sky - and thus the freedom - of Kazakhstan.

system blue gold
RGB 0-175-202 254-197-12
Hexadecimal color definition # 00AFCA # FEC50C

history

In 1456, the "Kazakh Khanate" emerged as a split from the Uzbeks Khanate , which formally existed until 1822. A Turkish postage stamp shows the khanate in a light blue flag with a white ornament and three white stars. The stars in particular appear to be very modern for this region and time. There are no confirmed sources. The Bökey Horde tried to renew the khanate between 1801 and 1845, but in 1854 the Kazakh khanate was finally dissolved.

Russia expanded its influence on the region from the 18th century and finally annexed it in 1868. After the collapse of Tsarist Russia in 1917, the Kazakh intelligentsia took the place of the Russian officials in the form of the " Alash Orda ". Russian Turkestan had now achieved modest autonomy. The flag of the “Alasch Orda State” was clearly Turkish : a red cloth with a gold-colored crescent moon and star. In 1918 the communists founded the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Turkestan in the Central Asian region of Russia , which carried flags in the Soviet style : red with the name of the republic in gold letters; the lettering was missing on the back. At the same time, the Union of Central Asian Islamic Resistance Organizations was founded in Samarkand in September 1921 . The so-called Basmachi designed a flag for Turkestan , which was used until January 1924, when the last territories of West Turkestan fell under the control of the Red Army . The flag consisted of five red and four white stripes and an orange rectangle on which a white crescent moon and a white star were depicted. This flag was based on the all-Turkestan flag presented by the "Union of Central Asian Islamic Resistance Organizations" in September 1921, which also had a thin blue border and which was also used until January 1924.

  • 1: 2 ? ASSR Turkestan, 1919 to 1921 Historic flag Flag is two-sided and looks different on the back

  • 1: 2 ? ASSR Turkestan, 1921 to 1923 Historic flag Flag is two-sided and looks different on the back

  • Historic flag? Basmachi Flag, 1921-1924

In 1920 the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was founded, which was renamed the Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1925 and finally became the Kazakh SSR on December 6, 1936 . On March 26, 1937, the SSR adopted its first own Soviet-style flag: a red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and the country's name in Kazakh and Russian : Qazaq SSR ( Kazak SSR ), later in Cyrillic Казак ССР , and Казахская ССР ( Kazakhstan SSR ). On January 24, 1953, Kazakhstan also received a Soviet standard pattern for the flag: the state flag of the Soviet Union , to distinguish it, a blue stripe (for the Turkic people of the Kazakhs) was inserted in the lower half. All of these flags lacked the golden elements on the back.

In the early 1990s, a light blue flag with two gold squares in the shape of the rub al-hizb in the center was used. This unofficial flag can be seen as the forerunner of today's national flag .

Kazakhstan adopted its current national flag on June 4, 1992. There are reports that the ornaments in the flag were initially said to have been red, but a month later they were also gold.

  • 1: 2 ? Kazakh SSR, 1937 to about 1940 Historic flag Flag is two-sided and looks different on the back

  • 1: 2 ? Kazakh SSR, around 1940 to 1953 Historic flag Flag is two-sided and looks different on the back

  • 1: 2 ? Kazakh SSR, 1953-1992 Historic flag Flag is two-sided and looks different on the back

  • 1: 2 ? Unofficial flag of Kazakhstan from the 1990s Historic flag

  • 1: 2 ? Variant of the unofficial flag of the 1990s Historic flagVariation of a flag based on the same basic pattern

  • 1: 2 ? National flag with red ornament, June to July 1992 (unsafe use) Historic flag

Flags at sea

Kazakhstan is a landlocked country, but lies on the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea . There is therefore a separate service flag and a naval war flag for state ships .

  • 1: 2 ? Service flag at sea Service flag at sea

  • 1: 2 ? Naval war flag War flag at sea

Community flags

The cities in Kazakhstan have their own flags. Here are some examples:

More flags of Kazakhstan

  • Customs authority

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kazembassy.org.uk/symbol_of_kazakhstan.html : "Gold and blue are colors of the national flag of the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is the symbol of new Kazakhstan, the main attribute of its newest history. There is pure blue sky in which the steppe eagle soars warmed by beams of the sun. "
  2. ↑ Flags of the World - Central Asian Khanates ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / flagspot.net

literature

  • Karl-Heinz Hesmer: flags, coats of arms, dates. The countries of the world from A - Z . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh et al. 1975, ISBN 3-570-01591-2 .
  • Karl-Heinz Hesmer: Flags and coats of arms of the world. History and symbolism of the flags and coats of arms of all states . Bertelsmann-Lexikon-Verlag, Gütersloh 1992, ISBN 3-570-01082-1 .
  • Alfred Znamierowski: Flag Encyclopedia. National flags, banners and standards . Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2000, ISBN 3-7688-1251-0 .

Web links

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