Ottoman Empire: Flags depicted on Colton's chart (1862)

Last modified: 2003-12-05 by ivan sache
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• Presentation of the chart
• Ottoman Empire
• The Grand Seignior
• Grand Vizier
• Turkish Man of War
• Turkish Merchant
• Ottoman Greek

See also:

• Ottoman Empire
• Ottoman Empire: Index of all related pages

Presentation of the chart

Znamierowski [zna99] shows on p. 6 a colour plate from Colton's Delineation of Flags of All Nations (1862). Six Ottoman naval flags are depicted on the plate, numbered #136 to #141. The names given below are those from Colton.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Ottoman Empire

by Ivan Sache

#136. Red field with a green oval charged with three yellow crescents placed horizontally.

The Grand Seignior

by Ivan Sache

#137. Green field with seven equally-spaced thin red stripes.

Grand Vizier

by Ivan Sache

#138. Horizontally divided yellow-white-red flag, with three yellow crescents placed horizontally in the white stripe.

Turkish Man of War

by Ivan Sache

#139. Red field with a white crescent and star at hoist. The star is eight-pointed Above it a long narrow red pennant with two long tails, looking like a modern masthead pennant.

Turkish Merchant

by Ivan Sache

#140. Horizontally divided red-green-red flag.

Ottoman Greek

by Ivan Sache

#141. Horizontally divided red-blue-red flag.