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

Last modified: 2006-10-07 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

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 caption given below are those from Colton.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Ottoman Empire

#136. Ottoman Empire - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The flag is red with a green oval charged with three yellow crescents placed horizontally.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The Grand Seignior

#137. The Grand Seignior - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The flag is green with seven equally-spaced thin red stripes.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Grand Vizier

#138. Grand Vizier - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The flag is horizontally divided yellow-white-red, with three yellow crescents placed horizontally in the white stripe.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Turkish Man of War

#139. Turkish Man of War - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

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

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Turkish Merchant

#140. Turkish Merchant - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The flag is horizontally divided red-green-red.

Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

Ottoman Greek

#141. Ottoman Greek - Image by Ivan Sache, 10 March 2001

The flag is horizontally divided red-blue-red flag.

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