Syria

Suriyya, Syrian Arab Republic, Al-Jumhuriyya al-’Arabiyya as-Suriyya

Last modified: 2005-05-28 by santiago dotor
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2:3
by Željko Heimer
Flag adopted 1958-1961, readopted 1980

• Introduction
• Meaning of the Colours
• Hanging Flag
• Flag Variants
• Presidential Flag
• Provincial Flags:
  • Damascus Province (Muhafazah Dimashq)
  • Al Hasakah Province (Muhafazah Al Hasakah)
• Ba'ath Party
• Historical Flags up to 1932
• Historical Flags since 1932
• Druze People
• Syriac-Aramaic People
• Teshreen Sport Club (Latakia)

See also:

• Federation of Arab Republics
• Pan-Arab Colours
• Municipalities in Golan Heights Occupied Territories (Israel)
• Syriac Orthodox Church
• Syrian Social Nationalist Party (Lebanon)

Other sites:

• Subnational flags: Syria at Dirk Schönberger's Administrative Divisions of the World website

There are quite a lot of flags in Syria: not only on official buildings you always find the national flag and mostly the Ba'ath Party flag, but also on private buildings. In the Suqs there are lines with many little flags, often alternating the national flag and the Baath Party flag. However, there are certainly some regional differences: In Damascus you see a lot of flags, also in the Suq; in the second-largest city, Aleppo, there are no flags in the Suq, but there are islamic writings (for example the Shahada, as in the Saudi flag) hanging from the lines just as the little flags in the Damascus Suq; in Homs you can see the little triangular flags; in the parts along the Euphrates, for example near Der-ez-Zor, I saw some national flags without stars. However, there seem to be no regional flags or city flags.

Marcus Schmöger, 1 May 1997