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![[Flag]](../images/a/az.gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath, 12 April 2024
Flag used between 1918 and 1920 (slightly
different) and readopted 5 February
1991, national emblem adopted 27 February 1993.
Description: Blue, red, green horizontal tricolour with a with
crescent and eight-pointed star in the middle of the red stripe.
Proportions: 1:2
Use: on land, as the civil, state and war flag, at sea, as the civil, state and naval ensign and naval jack.
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See also:
The construction sheet of the Azerbaijan flag appears on p. 33 of a document pointing to the Law of 5 February 1991 that created the national flag of Azerbaijan.
Zachary Harden, 23 February 2001
According to P. Lux-Wurm (Les drapeaux de l'Islam
[lux01]), the meaning of the colours of the flag was defined by the nationalist leader Ali Bey Hussein Zade as follows:
- Blue represents the aspiration to Turkization;
- Green represents the aspiration to Islamization;
- Red represents the aspiration to modernization and progress, following the European example.
Ivan Sache, 21 June 2003
According to Dorling-Kindersley Pocket Book
[rya97], the eight-pointed star
stands for the eight Turkic peoples of the world, classified as
Azeris, Ottomans, Jagatais, Tatars, Kipchaks, Seljuks and Turkomans (only seven!).
This classification dates from pre Soviet times. As can be
determined after some "Turanist" (pan-Turkic) and
ethno-linguistic sources, the correspondence is as follows:
- Azeris: Azeris (aka Azerbaidjanis);
- Ottomans: Turkish "proper" (aka Anatolians);
- Jagatais (aka Chagatai): Turkmens;
- Tatars: Tatars;
- Kipchaks: Kazakhs and Kirghiz;
- Seljuks (aka Salchuq): Azeris and kin living in
Iran;
- Turkomans: Turkmenians.
This clustering and classification are traditional (the
eight-pointed star was already shown on the Azeri flag in 1918 and was probably created much earlier) and do not follow any modern linguistical
or anthropological classification of Turkic peoples.
António Martins, 27 January 2000
There is new law on Azeri state flag issued on 02 November 2018 (https://e-qanun.az/framework/40675),
which defines the color shades in Pantone system: blue: Pantone 306C, Pantone
red 032C, and green Pantone 362C.
This page (https://meclis.gov.az/news-az.php?id=2&lang=az)
gives a correct flag image and a table of colors in many color systems (https://meclis.gov.az/main/bayraq-rengler.png).
The Album des Pavillons 2023 already specifies the colors of the flags in
three color
systems.
Blue Pantone 313c, CMYK 79-25-15-2, RGB 0-146-188
Blue Pantone 549c, CMYK 60-21-22-3, RGB 107-164-184 (for other maritime ensigns)
Red Pantone 185c, CMYK 0-100-81-0, RGB 228-0-43
Green Pantone 3405c, CMYK
77-0-75-0, RGB 0-175-102
Vexilla Mundi gives PMS 306C (blue),
PMS 362C (green), PMS 032C (red) and PMS White (official colors by new flag
law)
Wikipedia gives
the new colors and gives references.
Zoltan Horvath, 12 April 2024
![[Flag]](../images/a/az-95.gif)
image by Zachary Harden, after the official construction sheet, 23 February 2001
The Constitution of the Republic of Azerbaijan, adopted on 12 November 1995, says:
Article 23. Azerbaijan State Symbols.
1. The State symbols of the Azerbaijan Republic shall be: the Azerbaijan Republic Flag, the Azerbaijan Republic Emblem, the Azerbaijan Republic National Anthem.
2. The Flag of the Azerbaijan Republic shall consist of three wide stripes. The upper stripe shall be of blue colour, the middle stripe shall be red and the lower one shall be green. There shall be a white crescent and eight-pointed star in the middle of the red stripe on both sides of the Flag. The ratio of the width to the length shall be 1 by 2.
3. The design of the Azerbaijan Republic Flag and the Azerbaijan Republic State Emblem, the music and the text of the Azerbaijan Republic National Anthem shall be defined by the Constitutional Law.
Ivan Sache, 17 June 1999
The Parliament of the Republic of Azerbaijan has adopted during the first week of June, in third and last reading, a new Law "On the rules for using the state flag", announced the Parliament Press Office to the Interfax-Azerbaijan agency.
In the text of law are prescribed the places and institutions where the
state flag of Azerbaijan can be put. Moreover are detailed the objects
where can be drawn the picture of the state flag. The law prescribes the
use of the state flag and the procedure in case of violation or of
insult to the legislation of Azerbaijan.
[Interfax news agency, 7 June 2004]
Section 9.2. of the law obviously deals with colour specifications. Pantone blue 313c, red 185c and green 3405c are mentioned.
Pascal Vagnat, Jan Oskar Engene & Brian Ellis, 27 August 2008
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendations for national flag designs. Each NOC was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what the NOC believed the flag to be.
For Azerbaijan, PMS 313 blue, 185 red, 3405 green (as officialy prescribed). The vertical version is simply the flag turned through 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
Quoting Trend News, 26 May 2009:
The Decree signed by President to build Square of the National Flag
is very important. The fact that the president inspected construction
of the square recently is praiseworthy," MP Ali Masimli said at the
parliamentary meeting on May 26.
The foundation of the Square of the National Flag was laid near Naval
Forces base in Bayil settlement on December 30, 2007.
The text of the Presidential Decree on Building Square of the National
Flag at the Capital of Azerbaijan Republic dated to November 17, 2007
is depicted here.
Masimli offered to celebrate National Flag Day on November 9.
[Trend News, 26 May 2009]
Ivan Sache, 28 May 2009
Colour official specifications (Section 9.2 of the 2004 Flag Law):
Colour approximate specifications (Album des Pavillons [pay00]):
The CISM Flags Manual 2018 gives the same colors as Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12], PMS 313 (blue), PMS 185 (red) and PMS 3405 (green)
![[Flag]](../misc/az-2018a.gif)
![[Flag]](../misc/az-2018b.gif)
located by Victor Lomantsov, 25 April 2024
There is a state standard, similar to what we found for Armenia, for the
Azeri national flag. The information about the standard can be found at
https://www.azernews.az/nation/217071.html and the full title is "AZS
001-2023 “Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Bayrağı. Texniki şərtlər”" (State
Flag of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Specifications). The document is not
available online as of now, due the webshop of the Azerbaijan Standardization
Institute" (AZSTAND) is under construction.
Zachary Harden, 12 April
2024
![[Coat of arms]](../images/a/az).gif)
image by Zoltan Horvath & Zachary Harden, 12 April 2024,
12 May 2024
image based on
https://meclis.gov.az/news-az.php?id=2&lang=az
The star, also seen in the flag, has the same meaning, the eight
different branches of the Turkish people. This eight-pointed white
star fimbriated in gold, is superimposed on three circles: the inner
one is green, the middle one is red, and the outer one is blue. Those
colors match the flag colours.
Between each star point and over the blue circle, there is one
smaller eight-pointed white star, fimbriated in gold too.
Inside the main central star there is a fire. According to an
etymological dictionary by Guido Gómez Silva (published by the
Fondo de Cultura Económica), this fire recalls the name
of the country, "Land of Fire" or "Land of the Fire". The
fire also symbolizes freedom.
The shield stands on a oak leaves and wheat ears.
Pantone colors were assigned to the various elements by a Law promulgated in 2018 (text. The national flag elements (the ring around the flame) use 032 C for red, 306 C for blue, and 362 C for green). For the red flame, it is also 032 C; oak leaves and twigs are 7729C, the ears and stems of wheat are 7548C and the golden ring, the eight-pointed star outline, shield buttons, and acorns that are in the oak are 111C.
Juan Manuel Gabino Villascan & Zachary Harden, 17 December 2020
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!
You are the country of heroes!
We will die so that you might be alive!
We will shed our blood to defend you!
Long live your three-coloured banner!
Thousands of people sacrificed their lives
You're become the field of battles.
Every soldier fighting for you,
Has become a hero.
We pray for your prosperity,
We make sacrifice our lives to you
Our sincere love to you,
Comes from the bottom of our hearts.
To defend your honour,
To hoist your banner,
All the young people are ready.
Glorious motherland,
Azerbaijan, Azerbaijan!
Ivan Sache, 17 June 1999
