Flag of Uzbekistan

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Flag of Uzbekistan
Flag of Uzbekistan.svg

Vexillological symbol : National flag at sea, civil flag and service flag on land?
Aspect ratio: 1: 2
Officially accepted: November 18, 1991
Uzbek flag at a soccer game
Armed Forces flag

The flag of Uzbekistan was officially introduced on November 18, 1991.

meaning

The colors of the national flag are interpreted as follows:

  • Blue represents the sky. Another interpretation is that the blue goes back to Tamerlan's banner and some Turkic peoples .
  • White symbolizes justice as well as the country's extensive cotton monocultures
  • Green stands for the hospitality of the Uzbek people
  • The thin red stripes symbolize the passion of the people

The crescent refers to the Islam of the predominantly Muslim population and represents the rebirth of the country. The twelve stars are interpreted in two ways: in one, they stand for the twelve provinces ( viloy altar ), in the other interpretation for twelve months of an ancient calendar.

Historical flags

After the Uzbek SSR was founded in 1925, various red flags with the name of the political entity in gold were in use until 1952. The first variant, in use from July 22, 1925, was inscribed in Arabic and Cyrillic script. The label was an abbreviation of Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic in Uzbek and Russian.

From January 9, 1926, there was a Latin inscription above the Cyrillic-Russian in place of the Arabic characters, after the Arabic script had been abolished. Under the Russian inscription there was also the inscription in Tajik language in Latin letters, especially since at that time the Tajik ASSR was subordinate to the Uzbek SSR.

After the Tajik ASSR was detached from the Uzbek SSR in 1931 and became its own SSR, the Tajik-language inscription was removed from the flag. After a change in the Uzbek Latin alphabet was made in 1935, the flag was also adjusted.

From 1937 the name of the political entity was written out on the flag. After the Uzbek language was written in Cyrillic letters from 1940, a flag was in use from January 16, 1941, which showed both the Uzbek and Russian names in Cyrillic script.

On August 29, 1952, the flag was changed for the last time in Soviet times. This flag consisted of five horizontal stripes (ratio of the stripe widths 20: 1: 8: 1: 20) in the colors red, white, blue, white, red with hammer and sickle and a star in gold color in the left part of the upper red stripe . The symbols were not shown on the back.

Karakalpakstan

Today's flag of Karakalpakstan

The Autonomous Republic of Karakalpakstan has had its own flags since the Soviet era .

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