Flag of Tajikistan

The national flag of Tajikistan was adopted in November 1992, replacing the flag of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic of 1953. The flag of Tajikistan is an unequal horizontal tricolour of red, white, and green, defaced with a yellow crown surmounted by an arc of seven stars at the centre. It has a width ratio of 2:3:2.Embassy of Tajikistan to Belgium State Symbols "The crown and a star are entered in a rectangle, the sides of which on a vertical make 0,8 and across 1,0 width of a white stripe. Five-pointed stars are entered in a circle with diameter 0,15 and settle down on an arch radius of 0,5 width of a white stripe. There are three colours on a flag of the Republic of Tajikistan: green, red and white. A green stripe are valleys, they are not enough in republic - 7 % of territory. Because the rest of the territory is occupied by mountains. The white stripe is a colour of the main richness of republic - cotton and also the colour of snow and ice in high mountains. The red colour is a colour of unification of republic and brotherhood with other nations of the world." The tricolour preserves the choice of colours from the former Tajik Soviet flag, as well as the 1:2 proportions.

Flag Day is celebrated on 24 November, the date on which it was officially adopted.Alfred Znamierowski: Flagi świata: ilustrowany przewodnik. Warszawa: Horyzont, 2002, s. 45.

Design and symbolism The flag of Tajikistan is a tricolour of red, white, and green. The red represents the unity of the nation, as well as victory and sunrise. The red also serves as a symbol of the former Russian and Soviet eras, the workers, and the warriors who sacrificed their lives to protect the land. The white represents purity, morality, the snow and ice of the mountains, and cotton.cotton, traditionally the main export commodity of the economy of Tajikistan, accounted for 13% of Tajikistan's exports in 2012 (now the second most important export category, behind aluminium at 55%). The green represents the bountiful generosity of nature, fertile valleys, the religion of Islam, and the celebration of Novruz. Other interpretations of the colours state that the flag symbolically unifies the people of Tajik society: the red stripe represents the manual labour class, the white stripe represents the intellectual worker class, and the green represents the agricultural class living in Tajikistan's rural or mountainous regions.

The red and green stripes on the top and bottom are equal in size, while the central white stripe is one and a half times wider.

The crown and stars are set in a rectangle that takes up 80% of the white stripe's height. The crown represents the Samanid dynasty and the Tajik people, as the name Tajik is connected in popular etymology with the Persian word tâj ('crown').The actual etymology of the name is unknown; it derives from a medieval exonym applied to a people of the Transoxania region, used to refer to either 'Arabs' or 'Persians'; according to the Library of Congress's 1997 Country Study of Tajikistan, it is difficult to definitively state the origins of the word 'Tajik' because the term is 'embroiled in twentieth‑century political disputes about whether Turkic or Iranian peoples were the original inhabitants of Central Asia'. Library of Congress Call Number DK851 .K34 1997. The supposed connection of Tajik with tajvar ('crowned') can be traced to 1990 (Echo of Islam, Issues 183‑193, Ministry of Islamic Guidance, 2000, p. 54). The flag design being based on this etymology was reported in Alfred Znamierowski, The World Encyclopedia of Flags, Hermes House, 2002, p. 169. The flag of Tajikistan features seven stars because of the significance of the number seven in Persian mythology, where it represents perfection and happiness. According to traditional belief, the heavens feature seven mountains and seven orchard gardens, with a star shining above each mountain.

Presidential standard

The standard of the president of Tajikistan was introduced in 2006 on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony for the third term of Emomali Rahmon as head of state. It uses the Tajik tricolour charged with a depiction of the Derafsh Kāviān, the Sassanid royal standard. Inside the Derafsh Kāviān is a depiction of a winged lion against a blue sky, with a smaller representation of the crown and seven stars above it.Based on a Russian‑language description of the flag posted at president.tj in 2006 (archived version from 2007).

The centre of the standard features elements formerly used as symbols of Tajikistan in the Emblem of Tajikistan. The presidential standard also includes a star in each of the four corners, representing the four regions of Tajikistan.

Historical flags

Under Soviet rule, the Union Republic used a flag derived from the flag of the Soviet Union and representing Communism, which was approved in 1953. The flag is similar to the Soviet Union design but with the addition of a white and a green stripe. This flag also contains the red‑white‑green colour order, with the white stripe larger than the green, which is currently used in the national flag.

As a Soviet republic, the red symbolised the workers' revolution, the white symbolised cotton, and the green symbolised agriculture.

The Soviet‑era flag was two‑sided. Its reverse was a mirror of the obverse, without the hammer, sickle, and star. This design remained in use until the new Tajik flag was adopted, making Tajikistan the last former Soviet country to receive a new flag.

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