Azerbaijan, flag of

Azerbaijan, flag of

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      horizontally striped light blue, red, and green national flag with a central crescent and star. Its width-to-length proportion is 1 to 2.

      Prior to the Russian Revolution (Russian Revolution of 1917), when Azerbaijan was part of the tsar's domain, the leading Azerbaijani nationalist, ʿAlī bay Huseynzada, exhorted his followers to “Turkify, Islamicize, Europeanize” in order to emphasize ethnic pride, religious devotion, and modernization. The colours associated with those principles were light blue (a traditional Turkish flag colour), green (the colour of the Islamic faith in Turkey), and red (also a traditional Turkish and Islamic colour). A flag with the three colours in horizontal stripes was used from 1917 by his Musavat Party.

      The Russian Revolution allowed for the temporary independence of Azerbaijan between May 28, 1918, and April 27, 1920. The national flag of that era was the blue-red-green tricolour with a white crescent and white eight-pointed star in the centre. The star points were said to stand for eight traditional Turkic (Turkic peoples) peoples—the Azerbaijanis (Azeris), Ottomans, Jagatais, Tatars, Kazakhs, Kipchaks, Seljuqs (Seljuks), and Turkmen. The old Azerbaijan flag was revived in early 1989, when Azeris began to protest the failure of the Soviet (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) government to protect them from Armenian attacks on their territory. The flag was officially readopted on February 5, 1991, and it continued in use after independence was established on August 30, 1991. Both the first and second Azerbaijan republics also briefly used the Turkish national flag (Turkey, flag of).

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