Historical Flags (Palestine)

Last modified: 2002-11-02 by santiago dotor
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• Before 1916
• Palestine and Transjordan 1916-1923
• British Mandate of Palestine 1923-1948
• Unidentified 1941 Palestinian Flag
• Jerusalem Civil Ensign 1333-1921

See also:

• State Flag in the French Echelles du Levant
• British Colonies
• Palestine

by António Martins

Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire and used the Ottoman flag.

Santiago Dotor, 18 October 2000

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by Graham Bartram

The British took Jerusalem in December 1916. The allied supreme council created a British mandate on 25 April 1920 and the League of Nations approved it 24 July 1922. The Balfour Declaration of 1917, providing for a Jewish national home, applied to Palestine, but not Transjordan. Transjordan was separated from Palestine as an autonomous state on 26 May 1923.

T.F. Mills, 16 December 1997

I recently bought an atlas from 1932 when I was in Frankfurt, Germany. Inside there was a loose map, entitled "Der Nahe Osten" (The Near East). The map was from the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper and printed in 1941. Along the side of the map are short political histories and pictures of flags from the following nations: Egypt, Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Iraq, Iran, Yugoslavia, Palestine, Romania, Saudi Arabia, the Soviet Union, Syria, Transjordan and Turkey.

The flag for Palestine is a simple blue over white, which is similar to that on the Israel pages with the Star of David. Maybe the German paper used that flag and omitted the Jewish symbol?

Roger Moyer, 9 November 1996

It is very possible that the Palestinian adapted that as their flag, however we have no record of such a flag.

Al Bitar (Palestinian Embassy at Bucharest), 13 February 1999