Tunisia - Historical Flags

Last modified: 1999-12-30 by ivan sarajcic
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• Common historical flag of Tunis
• Bey of Tunis
• Other Historical Flags reported from Tunisia
  • Libro de conoscimiento (XIVth century)
  • Charles V Atlas (1375), "Gabes"
  • Charles V Atlas (1375), "Tunis"
  • Charles V Atlas (1375). "Tunis, variant"
  • Venetian portolan (Vesconte)
  • W.Dowmann (1685)
  • Lems (1700)
  • Laurie (1842)
  • Laurie (1842), -variants
  • Nouveau Larousse Illustre' (XIXth century)

See also:

• Tunisia
• Tunisia: index of all pages
• Tunisia under French Administration
• Tunisian Army in Sfax in 1881
• Tunisian Historical Ensigns
• Tunisian Historical Ensigns (Galleys and Galiote)
• Tunisian Historical Ensigns (Privateers)

Common historical flag of Tunis

by Mario Fabretto, 13 July 1997

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/Hobbs (1848), Rosenfeld (1883), Flaggen Almanack (ca. 1844). It doesn't appear on Le Gras (1858) 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 ships sailing from north Afric