Banner o Azerbaijan
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The banner o Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycan bayrağı) is the naitional banner o Azerbaijan. It consists o three equal horizontal baunds o equal width coloured blue on the tap, reid in the middle, an green on the bottom, wi a white crescent an an aicht-pointit starn are centred in the reid baund. The the predecessor o Azerbaijan, the Democratic Republic o Azerbaijan adoptit the current banner on 9 November 1918. On 5 Februar 1991, the Law on the Naitional Banner o Azerbaijan, governin its uisage, wis passed bi the Naitional Assembly o Azerbaijan. The banner is uised on land, as the civil, state an war banner, at sea, as the civil, state an naval ensign an naval jack.[1]
Throughoot history, thare hae been mony variations o the Azerbaijani banner. In auncient times, Azerbaijani dynasties wur representit bi different seembols displayed on thair banners. In the twintiet century, various Soviet banners representit the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Design
The blue baund refers tae Turkic heritage,[2] the reid is for progress an Europeanisation[3] an the green refers tae Islam.[4]
The Azerbaijani govrenment daes specify the exact shades o blue, red, an green. The offeecial colours an size wur adoptit on Februar 5, 1991,[5] syne then the banner is referred tae in the Constitution an is mentioned twa times in the naitional anthem. The specific shades o the naitional banner wur laid oot in a 2004 law as the follaein: blue - PMS 313 C, red - PMS 185 C, green - PMS 3405 C.[6]
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