Flag of Kazakhstan
The flag of Kazakhstan was established on 4 June 1992. It shows various traditional elements and symbols.
Description and significance
The national flag consists of a sky-blue cloth and displays its left edge of a gold-colored pattern. This weave pattern is the folk art of the Kazakh Khanate or the Kazakh people represent. In the middle of a golden sun flag is depicted with 32 rays and the sun beneath a steppe eagle. Due to the golden color of the eagle in German is sometimes wrongly called " Golden Eagle " (English: golden eagle ) called. It is the steppe eagle (Aquila nipalensis ). The design comes from Schaken Nijasbekow.
The eagle in the flag symbolizes the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan. This led, according to legend blue banner with an eagle symbol. Today Kazakhstan has been subjected to and incorporated 1219-1222 by the Mongols. With the symbol of the steppe eagle, the now predominantly Turkic population professes clearly their Mongolian embossed past.
Colors
The sky-blue ground cloth is original for today's Turkic people of the Kazakhs. It also stands as a sign that the people of the Kazakhs emerged mainly from a fusion of Central Asian Turkic people with the Mongols. In these nations, the color blue had a religious significance - it was for the high " sky God Gok - Tanry ", the " eternal wide blue sky ". Today, the blue color symbolizes only the vast sky - and hence the freedom - of Kazakhstan.
History
1456 went as a spin-off from the Uzbek Khanate of the " Kazakh Khanate " show, which formally existed until 1822. A Turkish stamp shows the Khanate of a light blue flag with a white ornament and three white stars. But it is precisely the stars appear as very modern for this region and time. Confirmed sources do not exist. The Bökey horde tried 1801-1845 to renew the Khanate, but the Kazakh Khanate 1854 finally solved on.
Russia expanded since the 18th century its influence in the region and eventually annexed it 1868. Following the collapse of czarist Russia in 1917, the Kazakh intelligentsia came in the form of " Alash Orda " the place of the Russian officials. Russian Turkestan had now reached a modest autonomy. The flag of the " Alash -Orda - state" was clearly embossed Turkish: A red flag with a golden crescent and star. The Communists founded in 1918 on the Central Asian region of Russia, the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, which led Flags Soviet-style: red with the name of the Republic in golden letters; on the back was missing the label. In parallel, the Union of Central Asian Islamic resistance organizations was established in September 1921 in Samarkand. The so-called Basmachi designed a flag for Turkestan, which was until January 1924, when the last areas Westturkestans fell under the control of the Red Army used. The flag consisted of five red and four white stripes and an orange rectangle on the front of a white crescent and a white star were depicted. This flag was based on the in September 1921 by the "Union of Central Asian Islamic resistance organizations " featured All- Turkestan flag, additionally wore a thin blue border and which was also used until January 1924.
1:2? Turkestan ASSR, 1921-1923
? Basmachi Flag, 1921-1924
1920, the Kyrgyz Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was founded, which in 1925 was renamed " Kazakh Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic " and eventually became the Kazakh SSR on December 6, 1936. On March 26, 1937, the SSR took her first flag of the Soviet model: a red flag with a golden hammer and sickle and in Kazakh and Russian the country's name: Qazaq SSR ( Kazak SSR), later in Cyrillic Казак ССР, and Казахская ССР ( Kazachskaja SSR). On January 24 in 1953, Kazakhstan became a Soviet unit pattern to the flag: the national flag of the Soviet Union, to distinguish them in the lower half of a blue stripe was added (for the Turkic people of the Kazakhs ). In all of these flags lacked the golden elements on the back.
From the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union is reported by several different flags from Kazakhstan: The Encyclopaedia Universalis shows Kazakhstan for 1992, a red-blue- golden horizontal striped flag that was apparently used at demonstrations. But striking is the similarity to the flag of Armenia, so that this information is probably due to an error. The Polish Geographishe leads Almanac 1993 for Kazakhstan, a horizontally striped green-white- blue flags on, and in the green stripes lay a white crescent. Whether here a confusion with the flag of Uzbekistan or whether the flag had an official status, is unclear. However, in early 1990 a light blue flag was already with two superimposed golden squares used in the form of the Rub al- hizb in the center. This unofficial flag can be regarded as the forerunner of today's national flag.
On 4 June 1992 Kazakhstan adopted its present national flag. There are reports that at first the ornaments in the flag should have been red, but already one month later they would also receive a golden hue.
1:2? Kazakh SSR, about 1940-1953
1:2? Kazakh SSR, 1953-1992
1:2? Unofficial Flag of Kazakhstan from the 1990s
1:2? Variant of the unofficial flag of the 1990
1:2? National flag with red ornament, June ( unsafe use ) until July 1992
Flags at sea
Kazakhstan is a landlocked country but located on the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. For government ships there is therefore a special service flag and a Seekriegsflagge.
1:2? Seekriegsflagge
Municipality flags
The cities in Kazakhstan have their own flags. Here are some examples:
Aksu
Almaty