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Tajikistan

Todhzikiston

by zeljko heimer 07-FEB-1996

Explanation of the flag
Presentation of Tajikistan
Tajikistan 1991-1992

See also:

Tajikian SSR in USSR
Gorno-Badakhstan Authonomous Area

Explanation of flag

The flag of the Tadzhik SSR was, unsurprisingly, red, with two horizontal stripes of white over green. The white symbolized cotton production, the basis of Tajikistani agriculture, and the green was for other agricultural produce. The Tajikistan flag continues this tradition, being a red over white over green tricolour. On the white stripe is a golden crown surmounted by seven stars. (I do not know the significance of this emblem).

stuart notholt25-NOV-1995

The colours are the same as the Iranian flag (albeit in reverse order), and the Tajiks are the only one of the former Soviet Central Asian nationalities who speak a Persian-related language than a Turkic one. Could this choice of colours be deliberate - and if so was the Tajik SSR flag similarly inspired? (I'd love to know how they got it past the Communists!)

roy stilling 26-NOV-1995

I have found images of two versions of Tajiky flag, differing only in small detail at the top of the crown. I have few pictures showing the top as oval, and few having the wings downwards. I am not shure which is right.

zeljko heimer 07-FEB-1996

Presentation of Tajikistan

Full name: Republic of Tajikistan
Location: Central Asia
Status: Internationally recognized independent state since 9 September 1991, a member of the UN and the CIS.
Notes: Tajikistan, formerly the Tadzhik SSR, was one of the last states to break with the collapsing USSR and also one of the last to hoist a post-Communist flag. Russian (and Communist) influence remains strong, largely due to the fact that the government needs Russian support in the sporadically continuing civil war against Islamic fundamentalists, who are mainly based in the south of the country.

stuart notholt 25-NOV-1995

Tajikistan 1991-1992

by Joan-Francés BLANC 13-NOV-1996

Before the design of the new flag, Tajikistan used the former soviet colours without the communist symbols.

joan-francés blanc, 13-NOV-1996

Also, I seem to recall that for a while after independence, Tajikistan was still using the old Tajik SSR flag, complete with hammer & sickle. I remember that that flag was used in a 1993 almananac for the country. Does anyone know if that was ever officially recognized by the Dushanbe govt. as the flag of independent Tajikistan, or was it sort of a "default" flag, the govt. being too busy fighting various civil wars to officially make a new one? Did the Tajik hammer-and-sickle-and-green-stripe ever fly over, a Tajik embassy in another country, or at the U.N.?

josh fruhlinger 13-NOV-1996