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image by Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
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In 1963, a flag was adopted for local use. It was green with a white
crescent placed in canton and four white stars placed in an ascending diagonal.
The flag was designed by the herald Suzanne Gauthier (who also designed the
coat of arms of the TAAF), and was in proportions of
5:7 (Source: Hervé
Calvarin (2002) in
Comores: un nouveau drapeau pour la réintégration d’Anjouan
[clv02]).
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
According to an article in The Flag Bulletin
[tfb] 174,
the flag of Comoros between 1963 until 1975 was green with a
white crescent in the top hoist, facing the fly.
Four white stars were placed diagonally across the
flag, from bottom left to top right.
Stuart Notholt, 22 May 1997
A proposal for independent Comoros as described in Flags through the Ages
and Arms across the World by Whitney Smith
[smi75b] as follows: Green field. White
crescent at upper hoist. Four white 5-pointed stars in diagonal from lower hoist
to upper fly, pointing to upper fly. Smith gives no more information about the
actual use of this flag.
Ivan Sache, 27 Mar 1998
This flag was adopted on 13 July 1963 and continued to be used after independence
on 06 July 1975.
Jaume Ollé, 30 Mar 1997
This flag was adopted in 1963 while the Comoros were still a
French overseas territory. The crescent represents Islam while
the four stars represent the four principal islands in the archipelago.
Unusually for Pedersen in
Alverdens flag i farver [ped70]
the ratio is not specified but that shown in the illustration is 2:3.
Vincent Morley, 29 Mar 1997
France imposed a referendum on independence on each island
which was held
on 22 December 1974. Mayotte rejected independence
(63.82%), which was later unilaterally proclaimed by the three other islands on
06 July 1975 and recognised by France on 13 December 1975. Pierre Charles Lux-Wurm
in
Les drapeaux de l’Islam de Mahomet à nos jours [lux01] says that independence
was proclaimed on 07 July 1975 and that Gauthier’s flag proposal became the
official flag.
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
It is interesting to note that the main charge on Comorian flags (half moon, four stars)
has been kept unchanged since independence.
António Martins, 30 Jan 2002
image by Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002
Another proposal by a Comorian student, also dated 1963, was reported to Hervé
Calvarin and which he mentions in
Comores: un nouveau drapeau pour la réintégration d’Anjouan [clv02]. The flag was
green with a white crescent placed along the hoist and four white stars
representing the geographical pattern of the
archipelago, from NW to SE: Grande Comore,
Moheli, Anjouan,
Mayotte. It seems that such a flag never actually existed.
Ivan Sache, 20 Apr 2002