Syria Old Flag

الجمهورية العربية السورية romanized.

Syria old flag. The flag has come to represent the independence and freedom that the people of syria will get from the oppression. Traditionally the colors have a historical and religious significance as each color represents a certain dynasty or caliphate. Nowadays the red color is mainly interpreted as blood spill and heavy sacrificing during the freedom fight white is a symbol of freedom and light while black.

Sūriyā officially the syrian arab republic arabic. Al jumhūrīyah al ʻarabīyah as sūrīyah is a country in western asia bordering lebanon to the southwest the mediterranean sea to the west turkey to the north iraq to the east jordan to the south and israel to the southwest. In syria and libya the current flags were more marks of the regime than national symbols which is why they became targets said gilbert achcar a professor at london s school of oriental and.

The single white star on the triangle marked it as the first independent arab state after the hejaz. The flag went through a process of political and partisan exclusions that are neither patriotic nor constitutional that is until through the revolution the people decided. The green color of the stars represents the rashidun caliphate 632 661.

It was readopted in 1980. Since its first adoption variations of the red white black flag have been used in various arab unions of syria with egypt libya sudan yemen and iraq. The used colors in the flag are red green black white.

The flag of syria was adopted in 1980. The black by the abbasid caliphate 750 1258. In march 1918 the arab revolt flag was raised in damascus as independence was proclaimed for natural syria modern syria lebanon israel and jordan.

2020 09 14 syria files since the syrian independence the national flag has undergone many changes over the decades. The white is by the umayyad caliphate 661 750. Flag used by the syrian government the current flag was first adopted in 1958 to represent syria as part of the united arab republic and was used until 1961.