Ottoman Empire: Sultan

Last modified: 2003-12-05 by ivan sache
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• Imperial standard, 1917
• A bad rendition of the Sultan's standard
• The tughra
• Naval flag of the Sultan

See also:

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Empire: Index of all related pages
• Ottoman Empire: Flags shown in National Geographic (1917)

Other site of interest:

• Reading the tughra (in Turkish)

Imperial standard, 1917

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag, shown as #1018 in National Georgraphic (1917) [gmc17], is a red flag with white imperial tughra within a rayed ornament.
The sultan at the time would be Mehmet V Reshat Gazi (ruling 1909-1918), whos tughra can be found on the tughra website and was used for the above image.

Zeljko Heimer, 20 April 2003

A bad rendition of the Sultan's standard

by Zeljko Heimer

The flag of the Ottoman Sultans was red with a white device called the tughra. The tughra was the imperial personal sign, a kind of monogramme, that consisted of delicately interlaced Arab letters. The background of the flag on the above image is pinky red, because it s