Persia (Iran) from XVI to XVIIIth century

Last modified: 2002-11-16 by ivan sache
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• King Qajar (late 1700's)
• Nader Shah (1736-1747)
• XVIth century

See also:

• Iran
• Iran: Historical flags
• Persia in XIXth century

King Qajar (late 1700's)

by Pedram Kian

This flag was used around the late 1700's by King Qajar, who was from a Turkmen tribe, and my evidence is the portrait of him beside the flag.

Pedram Kian, 6 October 1999

Nader Shah

Source: The Imperial Iranian Army from Cyrus to Pahlavi by Yahva Zoka (1971).

• "Hamway, an English merchant reports: Two large royal standards one with red, blue and white stripes and the other with red, blue, white and yellow stripes. Nader invented two other banners one with red and yellow stripes and one with a yellow background and red border."
  (Zoka suggests that the yellow banner carried the lion and sun motif of previous Iranian rulers).
  
• Each regiment had its own distinctive banner of red and white stripes.
  
• The naval ships had a white flag with curved red sword.

Note the illustrations show triangular flags with horizontal stripes. Whitney Smith did an article on Persian flags for one of the International Vexillogical