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

Last modified: 2002-10-19 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. They are shown below with their original caption and number.

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.