Tuesday, January 26, 2016

The Flag Company Inc And Azerbaijanian Flag

By Barbara Jameson


The Azerbaijani flag has an ancient history. The Albanian historian, Musa Kalankatli in his work, History of Albania devoted a section to the images of flags. The bodies of these flags were shaped as dragons or birds and were made from silk. Their shafts were made from silver and depicted the heads of mythical animals. Similar flags were widespread in Europe and other Eastern countries in the Middle Age.

Stretching back nearly 700,000 years, the story of Azerbaijan is rooted deep in the origins of mankind and has been part of many milestones in history. Subjected to nomadic territorial disputes, religious conquest, imperial rule, and Soviet division, Azerbaijan has undergone many phases of change and emerged as a democratic nation.

The Azerbaijani people also had special flags. The flags were triangular, quadrangular, and pentagonal in shape, sewed from fine eastern fabric and decorated with various ornaments and inscriptions. They were fringed with silk thread of different colours as well as with gold and silver thread. The flagpoles were cylindrical and were made from light wood; they were painted, their tops were decorated with decorated metal caps and tassels made from the thread of gold, silver and other colours were attached.

On 9, November 1918, the three-shading banner of Azerbaijan was acknowledged as the State Flag. The Azerbaijani banner comprised of three stripes of equivalent width. The upper stripe was blue, the center stripe was red and the lower stripe was green. Amidst the red stripe on both sides of the banner were delineated a white sickle and eight-pointed stars. The blue reflected Turkism, the red implied innovation and the green remained for Islam.

The sickle has been the token of Turks from old times. In Azerbaijani mythology, the moon is a male image and the star is a female one. The moon was additionally the symbol of Caucasian Albania. The clerics of the Moon sanctuary were viewed as the holiest men in Albania after the ruler. There are a few clarifications for the blend of the sickle and the eight-pointed star. By ADR, it was an inference to the correspondence of rights for men and ladies. It was seen as an image of happiness.

There is another explanation, that the eight-pointed star reflects the writing of the word "Azerbaijan" in the old alphabet. According to another version, the eight-pointed star represented the "eight doors of Paradise". So the three-colour flag is waving today as a symbol of independence during the national liberation movement which began in 1988. The Flag Company Inc specialised in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize for the future.




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