Flags of the Turkish Empires (Part 2)

Last modified: 2002-07-20 by ivan sache
Keywords: stars: 5 (white) | crescent (white) | star: 8 points (white) | mask | disks: 3 (white) | bow | wolf (green) | khazar | uyghur |
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• Empire of the Blue Turks(Gokturk Imparatorlugu)
• Khwarizm Shah (Harzemsahlar)
• Khazar Empire (Hazar Imparatorlugu)
• Black Khanate (Karakhanlilar)
• Grand Seljuk Empire (Buyuk Selçuk Imparatorlugu)
• Tamerlane the Great's Empire (Buyuk Timur Imparatorlugu)
• Uyghur State (Uygur Devleti)
• Ottoman Empire (Osmanli Imparatorlugu)

See also:

• Turkey

Empire of the Blue Turks (Gokturk Imparatorlugu)

by Ivan Sache

Blue field with a green wolf's head.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

The Blue Turks overthrew the Juan-Juan masters of Mongolia in the 6th century AD and established a vast Empire spreading across both eastern and western steppelands to the Volga and beyond. Almost immediately this state split into western and eastern Khanates. They were finally defeated by the Uighurs in 745.
This is the first documented Turk state. The Buddhist monk Xuan Zang met its ruler galopping in the steppes in the vicinity of Tashkent in 685.

Jarig Bakker, 23 April 2001

Khwarizm Shah (Harzemsahlar)

by Ivan Sache

Plain black field.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

Khwarizm Shah was the region around Khiva, near Lake Aral. This area is related to the Anushtiginid dynasty, which ruled nearly all of Central Asia till India from 1097-1231, when they were crushed by Dsjingis Khan.

Jarig Bakker, 23 April 2001

Khazar Empire (Hazar Imparatorlugu)

by Ivan Sache

Blue field with an unidentified white device in canton and five white stars in a > pattern.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

The Khazar Empire, a nomadic people who set up an extensive state in the steppelands east and west of the lower Volga in the 6th century AD. They were converted to Judaism around 800 (i.e., they chose this religion in preference to Islam and Christianity). In the later 10th century the rulers of Kiev broke their power.

Jarig Bakker, 23 April 2001

Black Khanate (Karakhanlilar)

by Ivan Sache

Yellow-orange field with an unindentified white device.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

An Empire north of the Ghaznevid Empire, founded by a family of Karluk Turkish descent, which ruled in the 10/12th centuries AD, with capitals in Bukhara and Kashgar (Balasaghun).

Jarig Bakker, 23 April 2001

Grand Seljuk Empire (Buyuk Selçuk Imparatorlugu)

by Ivan Sache

Blue field with a white winged and double-headed silhouette and a black bow and arrow.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

This refers to the Seljuk Turks, a Muslim dynasty established in what is now eastern Turkey after about 1065 AD.

Thomas Robinson, 23 April 2001

Tamerlane the Great's Empire (Buyuk Timur Imparatorlugu)

by Ivan Sache

Blue field with three white disks placed 1 + 2 in the middle of the flag.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

Empire of Timur the Great, sometimes known in English as Tamerlane, which was a brief Empire established by Turkic or maybe Mongol) peoples in modern Iran, Turkmenistan, and neighbouring areas.

Thomas Robinson, 23 April 2001

Recent studies have shown that this Empire was a Mongol state but official Turkish sources still consider it as Turk.

Onur Özgün, 14 August 2001

Uyghur State (Uygur Devleti)

by Ivan Sache

Yellow-orange field with two yellow masks (?)..

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001

State related to the Uyghurs/Uighurs, the Turkic people over near where the Turks originated, in the 8th/9th century in Sinkiang, Western China.

Jarig Bakker & Thoams Robinson, 23 April 2001

Ottoman Empire (Osmanli Imparatorlugu)

by Zeljko Heimer

Red flag with white crescent and eight-pointed star.

Ivan Sache, 28 April 2001