Persia (Iran) in the XIXth century

Last modified: 2002-11-16 by ivan sache
Keywords: persia | lion (yellow) | sun (yellow) | herat | crescents: 9 (blue) | swrod (yellow) |
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• National flag
• Imperial standard
• Army flag
• Unidentified flag

See also:

• Iran
• Iran: Historical flags
• Persia in XVI-XVIIIth centuries

National flag

Before first World War flags showing the lion and sun on a plain background seem to have served as national flags. I have found no reference to the swallow-tailed flag mentioned below.

Harald Müller, 14 May 1996

An old atlas (printed in the term of Chester A. Arthur, so 1881-4) depicts the flag of Persia as swallow-tailed, but with the angles at the fly sort of curved. It has five equal horizontal stripes: blue, yellow, green, yellow, blue. The green stripe is also the "tongue" of the swallowtail. On the blue stripes are three stars, with "parentheses" around the middle star. The yellow stripes have two red "four leaf clovers" each, and the green stripe has a sword pointing towards the fly and another star in parentheses at the fly.

Josh Fruhlinger, 11 May 1996

Imperial standard

by Jaume Ollé

The flag shows a yellow lion holding a sword with a sunbehind it and surrounded by a green wreath on a white field with a red triangle at each corner.

Sources:

• Flags and Signals of All Nations, by Georg