capital : TASHKENT

                1991    (independence)    (sovietic ratio of shit)                   naval ensign      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            naval ensign homage of shit inspired directly from the former fascist CCCP naval 1950      
                                                                                                                                                                                                                            (naval ensign hoisted by the boats of the Uzbek River Force as theres no navy proper)

                fascist 1955   (hammer & sickle redezigned)

                fascist 1952   (new flag)

                fascist 1941   (both names written with Cyrilik letters)

                fascist 1939   (the name Ozbekistan is turned into Ozbekstan without the "i" to get closer to the Uzbek spelling of the name)

                fascist 1937   (full names written)

                fascist 1935   (new spelling of the word "republic" in Uzbek - "Ç" replaced by "R")

                fascist 1934   (new spelling of the word "socialist" in Uzbek - "b" replaced by "S")

                fascist 1931   (line #1 = Uz SSR in Uzbek with Latin letters, line #2 = Uz SSR in Russian, line #3 dropped as Tajikistan SSR created apart)

                fascist 1929   (line #1 = Uz SSR in Uzbek with Latin letters, line #2 = Uz SSR in Russian, line #3 = Uz SSR in Tajik with Latin letters)

                fascist 1927   (line #1 = Uz SSR in Uzbek with Arab letters, line #2 = Uz SSR in Russian, line #3 = Uz SSR in Tajik with Arab letters)

                fascist 1924   (Y3 CCP or Ўзбекистон Совет Социалистик Республикаси - Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic - USSR)   (flag changed only in 1925)

                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   (Autonomous Government of Kokand)

                colonial 1914                        (detail)                        (enhanced)

                colonial 1883

                colonial 1868    (Russia)

                1785    (Bukhara Emirate)

                1505    (Khanate of Bukhara - war flag)

            NOTE :

               Pierre C. Lux-Wurm wrote : "bordure jaune d'or". Maybe the orange was used to create the visual impression of a gold fringe. Who knows ????

            The border of that Bukhara Emirate from 1785 is usualy ORANGE. Yet I still have a doubt after readin "bordure jaune d'or". It reminds me the masturbation about AZAD KASHMIR, PAKISTAN. Just look here > markodehaeck.free.fr/PK.htm

               scan of the flag in Lux-Wurm that shows gold ink and orange border - The writing nearest the hoist is the name of the Emir, whilst in the fly it is the Shahada.

            The flag is said to be more accurately termed as a standard of the ruler, rather than a national flag.

            SOME ODD STUF :

            Notice the upper band is sometimes not light blue (even in RIO 2016) and the name of the country is written in Cyrilik in real.   Quite odd, aint it !???

            This is due to the country is goin thru a gradual process of change from Cyrilik to Latin alfabet and theres 2 versions of the coat of arms (though the Latin script now predominates).

            BUKHARA

                1925   (incorporated into UZBEKISTAN)

                1924   (BNSR turned into Bukharan Socialist Soviet Republic / BSSR)

                1923   (BNSR - new flag)

                1921   (BSNR turned into Bukharan People's Soviet Republic / BNSR)                                   (variant)

                1920   (BSNR - new flag)

                1919   (Bukharan Soviet People's Republic / BSNR)

                1917   (Bukhara Emirate - new flag)

                1785   (Bukhara Emirate)

                1505    (Khanate of Bukhara - war flag)

            NOTE :

               My drawing of the Bukhara Emirate new flag from 1917 is made after this photo taken in 2006 in the Bukhara History and Local Lore Museum. It says that the flag is green, in spite of it looking blue-black in the photo.

            The flag is partly folded and appears to have a partial swallow-tail indentation.

            The flag seems to be more likely termed as a royal standard rather than a national flag.... thou it's a lil bit odd this flag appears in the middle of Emir Alim Khan's reign, that existed from 1911 till 1920. So why a flag change in 1917 ????

            KHOREZM / KHIVA

                1925   (incorporated into UZBEKISTAN)

                1924   ("Proletarians of all countries, unite !" written in Cyrilik Russian alfabet - XCCP written completely Хорезмская Социалистическая Советская Республика)

                1923   ("Proletarians of all countries, unite !" written in Arabic alfabet - KPSR turned into Khorezm Socialist Soviet Republic, itself abridged XCCP in Russian)

                1922   (KPSR - new flag)    (Notice the stuf often drawn as a hoe is a stem of djugare & the stuf often drawn as a spear is a spade.)

                April 1920   (KPSR - new flag)

                January 1920   (Khorezm People's Soviet Republic - KPSR)

                1917   (Khanate of Khiva - new flag)     (idiot ratio 10:25 insted of a simple 1:2)

                1873   (Khanate of Khiva - new flag)

                1804   (Khanate of Khiva - gradualy known to foreigners and also localy as Khanate of Khiva but oficial name remains Khorezm)

                1770   (De facto ruled by tribal leaders whose title was "Inak")

                1750    (Zand dynasty - Persia)

                1736    (Afsharid dynasty / Nader Shah - Persia)

                1511    (Khanate of Khorezm)

            NOTE #1 : The oficial 1922 emblem on a 1922 stamp. I tried my best for the 1922 flag !!!!

            NOTE #2 : a foto from the museum of Khiva

                LINK HERE > imgur.com/1TU51Y3

            NOTE #3 : the spearhead before the flag, visible on the foto just above, loox 100% like a Persian Alam

            KOKAND

                1925    (incorporated into UZBEKISTAN)

                1921    (part of Turkestan)

                1919    (part of Turkestan)

               1918    (part of Turkestan)

                1917   (Autonomous Government of Kokand)

                colonial 1914                        (detail)                        (enhanced)

                colonial 1883

                colonial 1876   (Russia)

                1841   (anexed by Bukhara Emirate)

                1757   (under suzerainty of China - Qing dynasty)

                1700   (rule consolidated by Beks of Fergana - Khanate of Fergana / capital established at Kokand in 1732 gives name to state - Khanate of Kokand)

                1505    (Khanate of Bukhara - war flag)   (De facto ruled by tribal leaders whose title was "Bek" from 1626)

                                                                                                                                                                                     + 1 BONUS FLAG :

                                                                                                                                                   
                                                                                                                                                    KARAKALPAK    (autonomous republic)    (sovietic ratio of shit)

                right shades ????    -    Just exactly like UZBEKISTAN, for KARAKALPAKSTAN, I dont understand ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN about the shades of the colorz....

                right shades ????    -   

                IGOR SAVITSKY MUSEUM OF ARTS, NUKUS

               

                I have made 2 versions (the first with a flag ratio 3:5 and the second with a flag ratio 2:3) in order to get rid of the sovietic flag ratio 1:2 - Notice the same goluboy as the Kazak flag.

                              

            The Karakalpak People is ethnic / linguistic / cultural closer to the Kazak People than to the Uzbek People and maybe should join Kazakstan....

                                                                                                                                                                                  + 1 EXTRA 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 Kirgiz, 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.

             A GREAT thank to Ralph KELLY for his HUGE work & his precious help in findin so many info for me.

                                                                Spasibo takoye Viktor LOMANTSOV.