slavery unit : manat tongue : Turkmen 5000000 idiot monkeys on 488100 km²
puke sects : muslim 89% X 9% other
2%
The famous symbols of islam (green + stars & crescent) are displayed on this flag. Near the hoist is a peculiar, beautiful (& very hard to draw !) band adorned with the 5 traditional carpet dezigns named "Güls" (Gül means Rose in Turkmene) which represent the 5 main tribes -or the 5 regions- of the country : (from top to bottom of the carpet) the Tekke, the Yomud, the Ersary, the Chudur, the Saryk. Production of carpets is TURKMENISTAN's most important & traditional economic activity for ages. The flag dates from 1992 but the very laurel wreath of the UNO was added later to symbolize Turkmenistan's neutrality. The present pattern was adopted on 30 January 1997 with a sovietic ratio of shit 1:2 and then turned into a 2:3 on 24 JANUARY 2001.
capital : ASHGABAT
MARKO's project
with NO wheat & cotton to get rid of both sovietic emblems and for
the Akhal-Teke & the Güls to be + visible. I have ALSO dropped the crescent & starz only for esthetic reasons
2001 (2:3) naval
ensign (sovietic homage of shit) (fascist CCCP naval
1950)
1997 (a golden laurel wreath is added at the base of the ornament to symbolize Turkmenistan's neutrality) (sovietic ratio of shit)
1992 (independence 1991) (sovietic ratio of shit)
fascist 1974 (hammer & sickle moved closer to the hoist)
fascist 1955 (hammer & sickle redezigned)
fascist 1953 (new flag)
fascist 1940 (TCCP or Туркменская Советская Социалистическая Республика)
fascist 1937 (TSSR or Turkmenskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika)
fascist 1929 (Tyrkmen Sosyalist Şovyet Çumhuriyeti)
fascist 1925 (Turkmen Socialist Soviet Republic - USSR)
fascist 1921 (Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic / TSSR - new flag)
fascist 1919 (TCCP or TSSR / Туркестанская Советская
Социалистическая Республика - Turkestan Soviet Socialist Republic)
fascist 1918 (TACCP or Туркестанская Автономная Советская Социалистическая Республика - Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic)
1917 (Bolshevik revolution in Ashkhabad)
colonial 1914 (detail) (enhanced)
colonial 1883
colonial 1873 (Russia)
1855 (Khanates of Merv-Teke and Akhal-Teke)
1822 (Khanate of Khiva)
1790 (Bukhara Emirate)
1750 (Persia - Zand dynasty)
1736 (Persia - Afsharid dynasty)
1576
1524
1502 (Persia - Safavid dynasty)
1405 (Timurid dynasty after Timur Leng died in 1405)
1370 (Empire of Timur Leng)
1221 (Empire of Genghis Khan)
1077 (Persia - Khwarezm Empire)
1045 (Seljukid dynasty)
1030-1187 (Persia - Ghaznavid dynasty - new flag)
977 (Persia - Ghaznavid dynasty)
colonial 750 (Abbassid Califate)
colonial 660 (Umayad Califate)
colonial 650 (Arab conquest - Rashidun Califate)
225 (Persia - Sassanid Empire)
247 BC (Persia - Parthian Empire)
312 BC (Seleucid Empire)
330 BC (Empire of Alexander The Great) (Macedonian emblem known as Sun Of Virgina - no flag is known to have been used)
560 BC (Persia - Achemenid Empire)
AS USUAL WIKIMERDIA IS JUST SHIT :
1991-1992 This flag is an ERROR and has just NEVER EXISTED.
I quote Viktor LOMANTSOV : "They are wrong : flag without carpets never existed."
Viktor LOMANTSOV's page TURKMENISTAN can be seen just right here > vexillographia.ru/turkmen/index.htm
1925-1926 This flag is a PROJECT and has just NEVER BEEN ADOPTED.
I quote Viktor LOMANTSOV : "Flag with 4 güls was the project only. It was not adopted officially. Artist KARELIN in 1925 made 2 variants with 4 güls and with 1 gül.
Deputies saw both but they didnt make any decision in 1925. But adopted in October 1926 variant (first officially adopted flag of TSSR) was 100% equal to USSR flag"
screenshot wiki
(detail) The 5 traditional carpet designs represent the 5
major tribes (or houses). These Turkmen tribes (from top to bottom) are
Teke, Yomut, Saryk, Chowdur, Arsary.
+ 1 BONUS FLAG :
BASMACHI MOVEMENT (1921-1924) (uprising both against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the peoples of Turkestan)
This flag was formed by
the combination of the three colors used by Turkic empires in the past
- red, white and orange. It was composed of nine alternating stripes,
five red and four white, with an orange rectangle located next to the
hoist of the flag between the two upper and two lower stripes. This
field bore a white star and crescent. The sky-blue border around the
edges of the flag signifies the pre-Islamic period of Turkestan and the
descendance of these nationalities from the Turkic-Mongol race.
The nine red and white stripes represent the historical regional states of Turkestan : Kichi-Gjuz, Ortha-Djuz, Ulu-Djuz, the Sultanates of Kashgar and Berat, the Khivan, Kokand and Turkmen khanates and the Bukharian emirate. These stripes also represent the nationalities of Turkestan : Uzbeks, Kazakhs, Uyghurs, Tajiks, Turkmenes, Kirghiz, Kara-Kalpaks, Pamirians (in Badakshan) and four other small Turkic tribes living in this country.
The red color was used in the ancient flags of the Kirghiz, Kipchaks, and Odjuz Turksand. The red stripes recall the plain red of the pre-1884 Merv Khanate, and the red flags of all Muslim Turkic peoples, while the orange appeared in the flags of the Uyghurs and the pre-islamic Turkestani sultans. The white color symbolises the traditions of the flags of Genghis Khan, the Golden Horde and the Il-Khana.
Heres 3 examples of historical orange flagz :
Great Hun Empire (204 BC - 216 AD)
Uyghur Khaganate (744-840)
Kara-Khanid Khanate (840-1212)
The ratio seems to be 4:7 acordin to the Italian vexillolog Roberto BRESCHI here. But Roberto does not bring any proof of a ratio 4:7. So I guess we can draw this flag with a "normal" ratio 2:3.
However Roberto BRESCHI
says this flag is "Islamic Republic of Turkestan, Panturania".
#1 : "Islamic Republic of Turkestan" does NOT refer to this flag as it's the flag of the BASMACHI MOVEMENT. Indeed : "Islamic Republic of Turkestan" shall refer to Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan (now part of CHINA) and its flag was the one below :
Turkish Islamic Republic of East Turkestan
(1933-1934) (self-proclaimed but unrecognized State)
#2 : "Panturania"
is not a place : it is a political ideology that is called Turanism or
Pan-Turanianism. In the 19° century it proclaimed the need for close
cooperation or alliances between culturally, linguistically or
ethnically related peoples of Inner-Asian origin. The concept was
narrowed to "Pan-Turkic" and the concept was promoted by the Ottoman
Young Turks, which gained power in the Ottoman Empire in 1908. The
Pan-Turkic concept glorified the Turkish ethnic identity and sought to
link up Ottoman Turks with the other Turks of the world.
I redrew the flag 2:3 as WikiMERDIA did here. But, as usual, WikiMERDIA is just shit as they forgot the thin light blue border !!!! I think BASMACHI MOVEMENT flag shall be 2:3 just as it loox about the flag below :
BASMACHI REBELLION in Turkestan (1918-1921) (flag of Kurshermat who was a leader of the Basmachi Rebellion from 1918 till 1921)
After the February
Revolution of 1917 in Turkestan there was political rivalry between
nationalist reformers, ethnic Russian socialists who formed various
soviets which included both bolsheviks & mensheviks, and
conservative islamists. By February 1918 the Bolshevik Red Army had
gained control of Turkestan killing about 25000 people in the conflict
and destroying the local economy . An insurgency of mostly muslim rural
peasants and cotton-growing landowners developed to oppose foreign
control (id est Russian and communist) and was pejoratively described by
the communists as "Basmaschi", which was a Turkic word for "bandit". A
force of up to 25000 peasant-soldiers was recruited and began
attacking Russian settlements and the Red Army. There was no central
command, the fighters were organised locally in units of several
thousand and usually commanded by a local land-owner or religious
leader, though there were some overall political leaders.
There is little known about the flags of the Basmachi during the
period. However one banner was captured by the Red Army in 1921 - it is
now in the State Museum of History of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. The
banner is that of the Basmachi unit led by a local landowner named
Kurshermat. The red banner is rectangular fringed red cloth 95 cm wide
and 115 cm long. The field bears the inscription embroidered in white
Arabic script : There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the prophet
of Allah - from Allah the only religion is Islam. In the upper hoist
there is a crescent and star in white. Note that the image is of the
reverse of the banner (the crescent and star is at the top hoist).
It is not known if this was a "one-off" or the pattern for banners for
all the Basmachi units. The source for the flag is an article in The
Flag Bulletin issue 95 (July 1982) The Captured Banner of Kurshermat
- article by the Russian vexillolog V. A. SOKOLOV.
BASMACHI MOVEMENT flag shall be 2:3 just as it loox here and as Viktor LOMANTSOV is the top vexillolog about Soviet and Russian stuf.
A GREAT thank to Ralph KELLY for his HUGE work & his precious help in findin so many info for me.