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![[Flag of Egypt in XIXth century?]](../images/e/eg-19c.gif)
by Mario Fabretto
The knowledge of old Turkish flag isn't very clear even if we know that a lot of flags were used. This flag is quite common on flag books and charts from the middle of 18th century and until the middle of the 19th century. Among them I remember Norie and Hobbs (1848) [noh48], Rosenfeld (1883), Flaggen Almanack (ca. 1844). The flag didn't appear on Le Gras (1858) [leg58] so I think that its use ended in the first half of the 19th century. The only thing we can say is that flags with many stripes and irregular shape were quite common for the merchant ships sailing from north-african ports. From many captured flags we also know that similar flags were used on land also, but with different colors and arrangements. The particular use of them is obscure.
Mario Fabretto, 13 July 1997
I read that the green, yellow, green triband is the traditional flag of the Mameluks. The Mameluks were defeated by Bonaparte (1798), but came back after some years (1808) and were again defeated and masacred by Mehmed Ali (1 March 1811). The greater part of the Mameluks were ethnical Cherkess.
Jaume Ollé, 9 July 1997
I found in my old (1884) atlas:
Egypt: Horizontal tricolor with three equal stripes green, yellow,
green.
Josh Fruhlinger, 11 May1996
The "Egyptian" flag, from a copy of People's Atlas of the World published in April 1899 (almost exactly 100 years ago) by Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick of Springfield, Ohio. The very first page is a color chart of "Flags of Various Nations".
Chris Young, 26 March 1999
![[Flag of Egypt in 1899?]](../images/e/eg-1899.gif)
by Chris Young
by Zeljko
Heimer
"The Ottoman flag in the XIXth century normally bore a white star and crescent on its red field. "
Quoted from Whitney Smith