Why Do All Arab Countries Have Similar Flags?
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▶ In this video I talk about Arab flags and explain why they look so similar. First going through the historical context of the colours and how they relate / have their origin in the historical banners of islamic caliphates. Then learning about the first time the colours were used together in the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in 1916. Then being recovered in 1952 with the Arab Revolt in Egypt. With both of these revolutionary flags serving as the origin for many of the flags in the Middle-East and North-Africa today; such as those of Egypt, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Kuwait, Yemen, the UAE, Libya, Sudan and even unrecognized states such as Somaliland and El Sahrawi.
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>Be a British advisor
>Design a Pan-Arab flag
>Ultimately divide all Arab nations
>Refuses to elaborate further
We like it this way and they didnt design our flags
what are you saying?
@@Ahmadbeik99 True. It kind of saying that the French designed half of Europe's flags. There's inspiration, and then there's authorship. There's nothing wrong with the flags of Arabic nations, just like there's nothing wrong with the flags of countries in central Africa and their pan-African colours.
@@Ahmadbeik99 no we dont. its the reason our nations are unstable monarchies or war torn lands, or stolen artificial israel. United and borderless is stronger.
@@Happyfor96 that's just your opinion
Just a small correction: in the minute 10:47, that displayed flag is Kuwait's, not UAE's
Something did feel off
🇰🇼 Kuwait
🇦🇪 UAE
When that came up I thought, wait a minute, Kuwait is the only flag that looks like the inside of a box...
You're using Kuwait's flag for the UAE.
UAE had a red box on the left.
Glad someone else also noticed the error.
Another correction, it says Oman as an emirate while he meant Ajman
Interesting! But I was told a different story growing up: the colors are the seas dominating the geography of the Arabic speaking lands. The RED sea, the BLACK sea, and the WHITE sea (that is how we call the Mediterranean Sea). The GREEN is the hope for prosperity when the west leaves us alone at peace.
Interesting, we call Mediterranean "Akdeniz" which is basically "White Sea" in Turkish. But Black Sea is far from Arab lands, right?
technically at the time it was on ottomans so it makes sense for me.@@hamdicakr6061
These colors were used by other countries when 100% of Arab countries didn't exist yet and were ottoman vessel states!! Flags with Red white and green have nothing to do with Arabs and semetic history but ancient West Asian culture and religion!! Whoever made this video didn't do enough research
you know colors can have diffirent meanings in flags. please dont say no research when you havent done enough research. litteraly how do you know your correct@@Two-Timer
Red sea, black sea, white sea... 😂😂 So unlucky of them that they cannot claim the sea green...😂
I'm Egyptian and growing up, they used to tell us in school that red represented the blood of the martyrs of different periods, black represented the dark periods of colonialism, white represented peace, and the eagle represented our ability to fly through all of these periods and overcome all of those challenges.
So, in my opinion, I think since we - the arab countries - were mostly occupied by the same empires -french and English - we happen to have the same colors for the same story.
May I ask about the Ottoman Era? What do people mostly think about that times? Also colonialism or smthng different? Just curious😊
@@omerbaranbali9194 They had their pros and cons, but they contributed to our economy in different ways.
And you should still trust what you were taught in school, Look up king tut Cartouche and how it has inspiration on the current egyptian flag. Not everything can be attributed to a pattern.
@@omerbaranbali9194 Allow me to express my opinion regarding the Ottoman era. I am from Saudi Arabia and most of us agree that the Ottoman period was one of the worst periods, as they burned libraries and did not build at least one school. Finally, they stole several treasures belonging to the Arabs in Saudi Arabia, and among what was stolen was a sword. We respect its owner.
Eagle represents Muhammad tribe.
9:53 the flag is the flag of Kuwait not the flag of UAE
Yes I noticed this! I'm glad someone mentioned it, came to the comments to look for that haha
Kuwait it's not a country it's a province from Iraq the British cut it and make it a state
@@alitheeagle8508 So it is a country lol
@@giovanni_vaz_cardoso hahaha not funny fake state if something happened it's gonna vanish forever read the history especially the geopolitics side dummy
@@alitheeagle8508 You're the dummy, just go to sleep
That was actually really interesting. By the way, I'd love to see a video dealing with the pan-slavic flags. Well done on this video
I would like to see that video as well
We hindus will take all these arab and muslim land and make akhand bharat.
@@hindustan5878 in your dreams lil bro
I wonder if the pan-slavics will gang up on everyone in the comments and be racist as fuck towards them if they’re uneducated about their flags
Pan Slavic flags?
Is that a thing?
Cause all Slavic states seem to have very different flags, except for maybe Russia and Serbia.......and Slovenia
بيض صنائعنا سود وقائعنا
خضر مرابعنا حمر مواضينا
سل الرماح العوالي عن معالينا
This has been very informative. Now i understand more of all these conflicts
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the second best Portuguese channel on TH-cam! Love every video. Keep it up, ou como se diz em Portugal, quipirãpe! :)
There's a better Portuguese TH-camr? 🤔
@@rogink probably the football channel one
No doubt this is one of the channels on TH-cam :)
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
meanwhile the German Empire flag be like: but I'm not arab
lol
Reverse Yemeni flag
The german empire belonged to yemen all along!
This is a very underrated comment
You will be
This topic is something I only recently discovered and was curious about. Very informative video.
Very interesting & informative video which required a lot of research. Enjoyable! Thanks for your efforts!
This video is completely wrong about the colors.... Red white and green have nothing to do with semetic cultures but ancient West Asian traditions
That was actually a very interesting video. I've subconsciously always seen these patterns in the flags, but never really thought about it. It's fascinating to see how Pan-Arabism was symbolically expressed in the three colors (red, black, and white), and how they were the colors of the former empires. All those Pan-Arab colors of the Arab nation-states today originated in the flag used in the Arab Revolt of 1916. It's also interesting how some Arab Muslim monarchies today use green to demonstrate how they rule by divine will. Red, furthermore was used by Arab monarchies of the time of the Ottomans, showing their legitimacy by associating their states with the Ottoman monarchial color of red. Well-done video lessons. Thanks!
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This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5you know two these things can be right ?
@@EllisMcCollum-ww8tkThe dream is a unified Arab country with all capabilities, but the spoiled Western dog wanted to divide us
Since when the black fools from Sudan became Arabs? They are SICK after all the barbaric heinous crimes the Evil Arabs Iinflicted on their Forefathers they (North Sudanese), Somalia, Eritrea, some Ethiopian and North Nigerians and Sahels called themselves Arabs today. They should be ashamed of themselves and are even worse than their idiot Forefathers who fought alongside with the Arabs to kill their own non Muslim black families who refused to convert to Islam and to also helped the Arabs Nomads to take and settle in the whole of North Africa
A video on the Bolivar flags of South America would be great 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇻🇪
Why is the name of your country Granada?
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 Isn't white the color of mourning? I kinda remember that a lot of cultures used it as the color of ... eternity(?) prior to Black seeing widespread use.
Boliviar country poor lol
@@goransekulic3671no, in this case black is
Very well researched and presented.
Very informative. Good job.
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This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
very informative
We would like to learn more
Thank you ❤
Fascinating to see how easy to concur even design the flag
For the curious people out there, take a look at the flags of Andalucía and Extremadura, in Southern Spain, and you'll clearly see these color patterns as well. This is no coincidence, as these are the regions that were influenced the most by the presence of islam and the caliphate thru the first and half of the second millennium AD. I am unaware of whether this is also the case of Portugal's Southern most provinces, but I would expect something similar.
It's not.
Having green and white flag doesn't make the flag of pan arabism. Andalucia flag are different than arab flag.
@@vidarodinson5246 No one said Andalucia belongs or belonged to the pan arab movement. That would be ridiculous. But the fact that the arabs lived in the iberian peninsula DOES have a direct relation with the colors of both andalucia and extremadura's flags. The influence of that period can be seen not only in their flags, by the way, it's evident in the language (and the specific southern dialects), the culture and, obviously (for anyone who's visited granada, for instance), in the architecture.
@ I mean the colour of the flag are not affected by Arab colours.
Yes the language and architecure are affected by Arabs, but not the flag.
Cause andalucia was ruled by moors (moroccans) not arabs and morocco was not part of the ottoman empire
@General Knowledge: Could you please provide all the references to this information for further reading? You've got me intrigued, and I want to delve deeper into this.
That was cool. Thanks.
Qatar & Bahrain : And I took that personally
👁️👄👁️
@@papazataklaattiranimam qatar jumpscare
Oman also 😅
@@saifulalam017 the flag of oman is insanely unique tho
our flaq is old and arab
Awesome video. Have you done a video on the Pan-African Rastafari colours used on the flags on many central and west African countries?
Basically all came from the Ethiopian flag because how Ethiopia was only occupied for 5 years ,
@@mohamedkhder6258 There is also another Pan African flag that goes by Blue, Yellow and Green which was started by 'Sudan' then used by Rwanda except in Rwanda theirs had a sun on the top left and a slightly different shad of blue and finally used by 'Gabon' except it was Green, Yellow and Blue.
For Sudan it's original flag was never the Arab flag, before the Arab flag there was the Black African flag which then inspired Rwanda and Gabon flag. th-cam.com/video/bIt6XomyVZw/w-d-xo.html You should watch this link to learn more about the AU formally known as AOU (African Organization Unity) And how different countries banded together to create their own ideological groups. It's very scary how this cooperation and unity almost succeeded is lasted for a while, I mean look at modern Africa now 😂
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
That was awesome ❤
The most known kuwaiti flag prior to the current one is the one adopted in 1914 and its a blank red flag with a single word written in the middle in white spelling "Kuwait" in arabic
Nice video. Loved the arabic music in the background 🤗 I would really like to see a similar video on the pan-slavic coloured flags
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 I see, very interesting, but why are you saying this to me? I only left a comment. I didn't make the video...
I'd like a video on the tricolor flags so common that I have given up trying to remember them. I think of them mostly as European, but they are common elsewhere too. Is there any pattern to them? Are some the reverse of others, or reversed and on their side (rotated 90° instead of 180°). Some have the three color bars, but add a central drawing.
In a shortcut all tricolour flags in Europe have something to do with franch revolution and as for tricolour flags outside as in Africa they all have something to do with colonial powers
Some examples of tricolour flags that look like each other :-
Chad and Romania
Ivory Coast and Ireland
All originate from the Dutch tricolour, including the French one.
The old French blue white and red vertical tricoleur is the basis for many. Italy is similar but green white and red (Mexico's is the same with a coat of arms in the middle). In Belgium, the blue has turned black and the white yellow. Romania and Chad have the French one with yellow instead of white (the only difference is Chad's blue is darker), as do Andorra and Moldova but they have their coats of arms in the middle. Mali's is France with the blue turned green and the white turned yellow (the Pan-African red, gold and green) and another French colony Guinea has the same but flipped. Nigeria, Peru and Guatemala have only two colours on their vertical "tricoleurs" (green white green, red white red and sky blue white sky blue with a bird in the middle respectively). If you imagine the blue and red of France's turning green and orange for Catholics and Protestants (then squash it flatter), you have Ireland's flag. Ivory Coast's is like Ireland's reversed. I think the only other national flags which are vertical tricoleurs are Cameroon and Senegal (green red yellow with a yellow star in the middle and green yellow red with a green star in the middle). There's 17 to start with, then you can start on the horizontal tricoleurs...
and german Empire flag was also Red, white, black
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
The flags of the nations of the Malay archipelago too would have been almost similar. The red and white seem to be the preferred colour of those nations. Indonesia and Singapore have similar colours, red top and white bottom. The flag of Malaysia too would have been the same but in a political struggle the left wing lost to the monarchists and thus the red and white flag was dropped from Malaysia's colours in favour of a flag similar to the Star Spangled Banner. Brunei would have had a similar flag too had the left wing politics held sway. The Borneo states of Sabah & Sarawak too adopted the red and white with an added blue in the 1970s but were later changed. Overall the flags of all Southeast Asian nations are red, white and blue except for Brunei and Vietnam.
People are forgetting there are only so many colors to use anyways.
The UK, Australia, France, US, Cambodia, Nepal, Malaysia... so many use red, white, and blue beyond just pan-Slavic nations (many of whom like Bulgaria do not use these combos).
3 primary colors. 3 secondary. And then 2 shades, white and black. Not a single nation's flag uses brown or grey as a main color. Tertiary and intermediate colors are also basically never used. No national flag uses pink or purple as a main color. There's only like 10 nations that use orange as a main color. So yes, most flags are actually quite similar color-scheme wise since only so many colors are actually used.
There was history how star spangled banner originate.. all its back to south east asian Majapahit empire..
This is a very interesting knowledge about history. And may I suggest that the narration tone for the next video to be more... human, less machine like.
I am Iraqi and I've only heard of the second explanation, which is relating the colors to the poem of Safi al-Din al-Hilli. I've never heard of the explanation relating it to previous Caliphates. Also, the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire and the regimes that resulted from it are mostly nationalistic/secularist so it wouldn't make sense to relate their flags to a governance system they had chosen to abandon.
Yes I’m Syrian and I also only hear of Safi al-Din al-Hilli and have never heard of the first explanation
I'm Egyptian and I have only heard the second explanation of the colors of the Egyptian flag. So I think it's the most common explanation.
islam relies on mindless minion slaves bent on conformity 😅
@@sarmadkaIts not trolling, read their books. Its full of child rpe and sex slaves.
IM ALSO FROM IRAQ :DD
I'd love a video on the Slavic flags, but also Scandinavian and Gold Coast flags!
insightful 👍
GOOD JOB
9:51 it's the flag of Kuwait 🇰🇼 not UAE🇦🇪
Well done!! Yes!! I'd love to see the Slavic tricolor explanation!!
It is inspired by the Dutch flag 🇳🇱, which after their war for independence become a prosperous autonomous republic, not seen for a long time in a Europe dominated by powerful bishops, kings and emperors.
@@Judge_Magister so does it have something to do with being a republic or having some level of democracy? Loads of nations have this and we all are either republics, have a Congress, or a Parlement of some kind (at least to my knowledge). I think Russia's a republic in name only, but they might just be a totalitarian republic like Rome was.
@@YeshuaIsTheTruth No, it has no deeper meaning. If we go by the explanation the former commenter has provided it was first adopted by tsarist Russia, though the colors were just popular, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth has tried to adopt blue as it's third color long before Russia even had this flag or Pan-Slavism was a thing (The Commonwealth of Three Nations adopted it much later, in the January uprising). Then most slavs lost independence and pan-slavists became a thing. Realistically speaking Pan-Slavists have just taken the flag of Russia as most of them were russophiles at the time, with the notable exception of Poles and Czechs
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 yes and the white stands for my ass. Lets not take this world too seriously mate, its all a trick of the mind.
Great video, would love to see one about the Pan-Slavic colours in flags.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
Wao this is something I have always wondered.
بيضٌ صنائعنا، سودٌ وقائعنا،
خضرٌ مرابعنا، حمرٌ مواضينا.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state….
We really want to see the pan-slavic flags video! And also the Scandinavian flags would be interesting...
ابوه السلافية
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
You're an information sponge and a hard worker. Well-done, that was an exquisite presentation. Wow!
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 Of course they all have different meanings
There is just one confusion i realized about the first combining of these colors in a flag. It was actually in 1909 before ww1. And the first version of this flag was made up by arab nationalist clup called "literary club" in istanbul. And the sentences of safi al-din's poem was written on the flag. Than sherif Hussain's son "Abdallah " suggested using these colors on that flag and it was accepted. i was about to share your video if not realized that mistake. I hope u fix it.
This is really interesting
Why did you skip Sudan? It has a very rich story
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state.
we have a rich history yet our leader Nemiri choose for us this ugly arab flag
Super interesting, as always.
It would be nice to see a video about the different Slavic flags and how they developed. 😁
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 The colours as you describe them were explained in the video.
Thank you man you gave me knowledge for my social studies test😸
Bro the red actually stands for the myrtars blood in battle ❤ thanks for taking the time to try to learn about this
For me it stands for all the innocent slaughtered by Islamic conquest and occupation.
@@arizjones
Or the innocent Jews slaughtered by crusaders, or Greek Christians slaughtered by crusaders.
Or even en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Ayyadieh
@@arizjones crusaders are not innocent
@@soulsmouls Nothing compared to the Armenian genocide, Greek Genocide, Assyrian Genocide.
10:15 the displayed flag is for Kuwait 🇰🇼, you have to change it to 🇦🇪.In my opinion,Oman flag is considered as Pan Arabian flag 🇴🇲
Oman is the only Arab flag that has personality. The others are just boring.
@@gambigambigambi
You are boring
@@brianwashedhunter1150 Aw did I offend you? Oman. Flag. Has. Personalityyyyyy.
@@gambigambigambi Lebanon 🇱🇧? Morocco 🇲🇦?
@@gambigambigambi Pan-Arab flags has history and deeper meaning behind them.
Due to its history of resistance to colonialism and it's role in supporting the independence movements of many countries in Africa the tricolor of the Ethiopian Flag - red, yellow and green - was adopted by a variety of African countries after independence, and with the addition of black was adopted as the colors of the Pan-African flag. The tricolor also plays a major significance in the Rastafarian Movement and is widely used in clothing, home fúrnishings etc
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5
ok? got anything else
you’d like to share?
@@sufianS5 and what about palestine? what are the colors for? what is their history?
@@sufianS5first of all Egypt and Sudan are African countries (Black countries) that just happen to have arabs because of their invasion of Africa
@@sufianS5did you really have to repeat this comment a dozen times?
It's so great to see so many fellow 5s in one place.
What does this mean?
@@funkoxen it's a reference to enneagram 5
@jamessanders145 sounds right but a very obscure reference to splash out there without explantation.
Guess I investgated it though.
@@funkoxen I know it's obscure but I kind of wanted to see how many people would get it. What do you think about it?
@jamessanders145 I thought it was very interesting, I always like personality analysis I havent fully explored it yet but after a quick (free and superficial) test it seems I am indeed a 5. So maybe you are onto something.
Are enegrams a scientology thing? I feel like I hear them talk about it.
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Allahuakhbar ☝️☪️
red blue black and green are the first and easiest dyes to make and white can be made by bleaching
Thanks! Could you please do it for Slavics and also central American countries?
They have an old aryan symbol
@@user-cg2tw8pw7j”Aryan symbol.” Slavics had the symbol way before even H1tler came out of the womb. Germans aren’t Aryan either. Aryans are in north India and Iran is the land of the Aryans.
@@tlamatini4617 And the Scythians and Sarmatians were inhabiting this region for hundreds of Chinese. They took their symbols, but why did not make the dragon the symbol of the Slavs?
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state..
I want a video about the flags that use blue, red, and white next week!
Me too!
@@isaacbettinger5381 schizophrenia
When I see red white and black I think of Pan African colors , didn’t realize Arab nations used them too that’s cool
It would be neat to see one of these on red, white, and blue flags
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5
Yes also another thing to mention is that the levant countries and Egypt purposely made the same flags concepts to show their past connections
Fun fact : the 1 jordanian dinar bill that was shown in 3:46 has been since redesigned, and the soldiers have been replaced with
National bird (the Sinai rosefinch), while still keeping the picture of the sherief hussain bin ali (the leader of the arab revolt) on the other side of the 1 Dinar bill.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5as a Jordanian, what they said is true, and what your saying is completely irrelevant to the comment 💀
Good vid
Excellent
In another narration, the colors of the flags are taken from the poem of the poet Safi al-Din al-Hali (بيض صنائعنا، سود وقائعنا
خُضر مرابعنا حمر مواضينا) The poet is proud of his people (tribe) and their glories and mentions all the colors white, red, black and green
It's already mentioned in the video
@@itsame2271 At what time was it mentioned specifically?
@@itsame2271 no, it's not
@@user-fb9zv9uu4w Safi Al Din Al Hilli was born in 1276 in Hilla, Iraq and died in 1349 in Baghdad, Iraq so the poem must be from the 14th century
@@user-fb9zv9uu4w At exactly 02:00
One thing I find interesting about the Egyptian flag (whether it was intentional or not) is that historically Egypt was a union of two kingdoms, the Delta Egyptians of Lower Egypt who were hieroglyphed as red skinned, and the Nubians of Upper Egypt who were hieroglyphed as black skinned. The Egyptian tricolour shows the red band at the top (or north) of the flag where the "red skinned" Delta Egyptians were, and the black band at the bottom (or south) of the flag where the "black skinned" Nubians were, with a white band separating them which (at least by European standards) typically refers to peace or unity (similar to how in the Irish flag shows the Catholics (green) separated from the Protestants (orange) by a white stripe). Additionally, the crown of the two kingdoms was red and white, an amalgamation of the red crown of Lower (Northern) Egypt, and the white crown of Upper (Southern) Egypt. A third possible reasoning behind the order and choice of colours was that Egypt, particularly the Nile and Delta regions was regarded as "black land" due to its comparatively dark and fertile soil to the surrounding area, so you could have Red for the northern kingdom, which above white for the southern kingdom, which is above black for the ground. I have no idea if this much thought went into making it, but its absolutely fascinating how it so easily links into so much of Egypt's history using only three simply colours
I’m Egyptian. The upper ancient Egyptians weren’t depicted as black skinned. The red colour refers to the blood of the martyrs, and you are correct on your second point, the black refers to our fertile soil.
@@Rawan_unfilteredI’m Coptic Egyptian ppl in Aswan and Luxor are black Egyptians ppl in Cairo which my family is from is more middle eastern Arab looking facts
@@Rawan_unfiltered they are red and black skinned as per the hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphics for people showed Nubians (whom were of Upper Egypt) as black "On the other hand, black is associated with
chaos and enemies, so the men to the south of Egypt (Nubians) were depicted by
black skin."[1], Lower Egyptians as red and women as yellow (there are several archaeological finds regarding this as well as academic articles) the reasoning for why those colours were chosen is conjecture, but may stem from artistic representation of skin colours, or the other mentioned points of fertile soil and blood of martyrs.
[1] www.dirzon.com/file/telegram/Ancient_Egyptian_Language/GestosoSingerColorinAncientEgypt.pdf
I'm Egyptian and since childhood i knew what is the meaning of the colours Red is the blood of martyrs, white is the hearts of ancestors , black is the blood of enemies and Ages of tyranny, and the eagle is a symbol of strength and victory
@@Zaephraxppl in Aswan there still Egyptians smh Europeans Roman’s Greek always trying to change history think they know Egypt there just dark Egyptians who speak Arabic common sense ppl in Cairo like my fam we are more of the middle eastern side lifestyle culture but idc you can think what you want ppl always change history
The Egyptian 1952 flag had an eagle as its emblem
These colours also appear in many African flags. It would be interesting to learn the comparative stories behind the symbolism, why the colours became important.
you are using white man's flag. its tragic.
It's called there's only 3 primary colors, 3 secondaries, and none of the tertiary colors are used in any flag. That + 2 shades (white and black) mean most flags share the same colors. It's amazing how people don't understand this.
Brown, grey, pink, and purple are not used as main colors for any single flag. Orange is on only like 10 national flags, that's it.
So now you're down to how many colors to use? Usually blue means sky or water, depending on if it's a coastal nation or one with a lot of important rivers. Red means blood almost every time. Green means land. Over and over, regardless of national history. Ukraine is a relatively unique looking flag because it uses yellow for a similar reason to nations, except the yellow represents wheat and not just land or crops generically. And they have blue over it specifically to denote the sky over said wheat. A lot of countries have blue to mean sky but it's not the 1st color. Ecuador says their yellow is for their rich land and crops but their blue is for the oceans and sky, despite the yellow being above the blue. At least Colombia and Venezuela add some attempt to make this make sense by saying the yellow also stands for the sun. In reality, they took it for legitimacy purposes as they broke from Gran Colombia, who had the flag based off the banner of one of the men who fought for their independence (in hopes of setting up an empire that encompassed all of Latin America and part of modern US)
If you want something with more historic symbolism, you'll be better served looking at a nation's coat of arms than modern flags, which most are fairly plain, simple, and repeated quite often.
@@tkaraburk Look at you, using the white man's language.
@@CanadianEhHole غسل اسنانك
when the british and the french had colonized the countries, they had planned to let go of them but didn't want their to be one great strong nation united as it would be a threat to israel which was already in the works. though all arab countries are really unique and distinct, this color combo made them have a sense of similarity and unity in a new way. in 1945, the arab league was just for show. many of the countries were still protectorates and colonies of britain.
There’s a difference between colonisation and mandate, as the Ottoman Empire fell after losing WW1. Those countries were not “colonised”.
Ya.. the British and French cared about ensuring Israel’s survival 😂
same difference. administered by a foreign power either way. @@XxxX-wx3er
Why wouldn't they, its their precious project in a way and an exile for the jooz in another way after they got tired of burning them, like let them go cause chaos in another part of the world other than our land. @@dcohen1969
@@XxxX-wx3er“It was not a colony” and the millions of dead Arabs were from the French whom we Arabs taught about cleanliness, or the British pink pig. 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Very informative video yet completely neutral take. Thank you!
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
Funny thing is most coutries in Europe have way more similar flags, three colors in even stripes. Arab coutries chose the same colors, but the geometry and other elements is clearly more distinct. We just kind of learn that some elements are the good ones, make legit diferences in a flag, and become blind to all the rest. So wierd. One of my favorite flags is of Pernambuco, indeed an original flag, looks like something in between a contemporary piece and a sketch from a nine year old, hard to believe it's even a flag at all. But I apreciate a lot the element of post colonial fraternity represented by the same choice of colors. The brazilian flag, maybe because it was made in a decolonization process more than 100 years before most os the arabs, show the colors of the crown of the Habsburg, Orleans and Bragança. I find that so disrespectfull it is borderline mockery.
Simple answer why. Because Sykes one of the “Sykes-Picot Agreement” witch carved out the Middle East between Britain and France did it for the British intelligence.
Black
Green
White.
Flag facsimiles for a new Arab state, designed by Sykes in a letter to Wingate in February 1917. The suggested colors were symbolic of the Arab dynasties: Abbassid, black; Omayad, white; Alid, green and red for the sharif and "most of the trucial chiefs." Sykes suggested that the ensign should be flown "whenever the French flag is flown" in areas A and B.
In conclusion all these Arab countries have the occupiers flag.
you didn't mention a thing about the eagle in the Egyptian flag.. its Sinai's golden eagle and was the symbol in Salah el deen alauouby (Saladen) banners
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state.
@@sufianS5 كيف غير صحيح.. النسر الذهبي ده حيوان يعيش في سيناء وكان رمز لصلاح الدين على القلعة المسماة باسمه في القاهرة
I'd like to see a video about Slavic flags.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state..
That black crescent and star flag is bad ass.
9:02 and this flag looks like a "crazy eyes" emoji!
The short answer for the Pan-Slavic colors is that it were introduced by the Prague Slavic Congress of 1848, based the colors of Russia. Since the Russia flag starting appearing around Peter the Great's reign, most believe it is connected to his love of the Dutch and their shipbuilding, and the Netherlands flag has its own story.
There is a European country whose flag is similar to the flag of Russia
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state.
Fun Fact: Libyan, Tunisian and Algerian flags literally come from Ottoman flag :)
Das cool
Libyan flag is based on the sanusi movement in Libya.
What about Turkey:)
False !
The Algerian flag was made by Messali hadj for the North African Star movement in 1926 and is about Independence having no links with your trash ottoman empire
It is known that the modern Tunisian flag is actually older than the classical early 19th-century designed Ottoman flag and also have no links with it
Libyan flag comes from a recent regional constitutional concept that has relatively more in common with pan-Arab colors than anything else
Nop, it comes from bani hilal, the Arab tribe of north Africa, means sons of the cresent
U didn't give am explanation for sudan i was waiting for it patiently
The seven-pointed star in the flag of my country, Jordan, means Surat Al-Fatihah in the Qur’an, which has seven verses
I would really love to see a timeline of how the flags changed from movement to movement side by side, like the ones in Useful Charts.
A second would be making them myself.
All flags are from early 20th century. The Arab revolt against the ottomans.
Fun fact: The crescent is not a symbol of Islam. It has more ancient history than that. The reason with a lot of countries have that symbol might be explained with the ruling of Ottoman Empire.
Only because it wasn't founded as the symbol of Islam, doesn't mean it is not an Islamic symbol now.
Hundreds of millions of Muslims identify with that symbol.
No you're wrong. The crescent moon marks the beginning of Ramadan. The ottomans made it popular on flags, but it was always a islamic symbol.
The Ottomans weren't the first Muslims who put crescent on their flag, so no
The real symbol of islam is shahada or الله اكبر
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هناك رموز كثيرة ، عبقري ...
Nice vid
sheldon cooper, fun with flags
I’m Algerian and this is so freaking interesting
Personally I find the flag of the first syrian Republic is more accurate to the nation of Syria rather than the modern flag 🇸🇾 wich represents the United Arab Republic. Greeting from Syria 💚🤍❤️🤍🖤
syria is part of Israel
also syrians are arabized
look dna test of syrians the have
Assyrian,Turkmen,Persian,Greek,Aramaic Dna
حقيق يا اخي.
Current flag is the representation of oppression and subviercence, both during UAR period and after 1970.
تحيات من سوري ساكن في أوروبا
Arabs only in arabia , Syria are not arab don’t mix it
@Ευαγγελος Αγγελος
The two green stars represent Syria and Egypt (the United Arab Republic states) while the three red stars represents the United of three old states of Syria: state of damascus and aleppo, state of Alawites and state of Jabal al-Druze.
@@user-er8sp1el7c
You are one of those jealous Saudi nationalist who cry every day on twitter and TH-cam comments, get yourself a life dude.
A correction here, South Sudan here doesn't use pan-arab colours but Pan-African colours. It is literally the same colour arrangement as the Kenyan flag, just with the blue triangle and star.
I always thought Libya used those colours as Pan-African colours but I'm not sure anymore
Why would they, Libya is one of the most Arab nationalistic countries of the Arab World, it's no surprise they use Pan Arab colors in their flag.
As explained by a Libyan friend: in Libya black is for Cyrenaica, green for Tripolitania, and red for Fezzan, which are the traditional Lybian regions and were originally united upon independence as a federation, based on colours ¿a bit randomly? taken form preëxisting symbols of each one. Cyrenaica appears bigger as its king was the unifier and who became king of the united Lybia.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state…
Same Goes with algeria and morocco
10:06 bro this is kuwait 🇰🇼 flag not UAE 🇦🇪
I believe two pictures at 2:43 belong to the Ottoman forces with the legendary Fahreddin Pasha and the Ottoman Flags :)
The colors in the Egyptian flag refer to the country's history and national symbols. The red color represents the blood of the Egyptian people that was shed during their struggles for independence, while the white color symbolizes peace and neutrality. The black color represents the darkness that the country had to go through before achieving independence, and the eagle of Saladin, the symbol of the country, which is also represented in the flag.
Saladin was Kurdish not Arab
@@farinapanzerotti2683 Saladin was Muslim, Islam as religion never cared about people race. All people are equal.
@@farinapanzerotti2683
Saladin may have been Kurdish *ethnically*.
But that's as far as he has to do with Kurds.
Just like Napoleon is from Corsica (Italian) but he is considered French by everyone.
Correct
@@GORO911 Corsica is a French Island. Saladin is Kurdish a different Race than Arabs. Arabs are Semite just like the Jews you guys are more close relative to Ariel Sharon a Jewish Person than Saladin.
Pan-African colours influenced flags in African countries and origins would be a great watch too.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 bro stop spamming this comment
Interesting! Why no discussion of Lebanon?
Great explanation, however, UAE 🇦🇪 flag was misrepresented with the Kuwait 🇰🇼 flag. Thanks 😊
the fact you mention somaliland is good finally we getting sum international recognition thx
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state.
To all my people wherever you are...
From #Kuwait with Love ☀️🇰🇼🌷
إِنَّ الذي مَلَأَ اللُّغات مَحاسِناً …
جَعَلَ الجَمالَ وسِرّه في الضّادِ
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state…
@@sufianS5I know, that's why I specifically said my people - ARABS - Arabia is not a country its an identity unites us all like our beautiful language.
Back in monogols invaded Arabia there was a poem said stating colors, 100 years ago Sharif Hussian intaiated a flag based on those colours in the poem to opposed Ottoman Empire. Nothing to do with Caliphate
Let me guess. Can I have one question before I answer? Does it have anything to do with the southern end of a northbound camel?
Fun FACT: there are NO Arab majority nations in Africa. Genetically and ethnically Egypt is populated by Egyptians, a Hamitic North African Mediterranean ethnic group. Sudan populated by Nubians and Nilotic ethnic groups. Libya, Tunisia, Algeria & Morocco are populated by Amazigh, a Hamitic North African Mediterranean ethnic group.
I thought everyone knew that?
It's very difficult to say with confidence who are "Egyptians", Egyptians today are a mixture of descendants from Copts, Greeks, Nubians, Arabs, Cyrenians, Ottomans, Armenians, Romans, Canaanites, Central Asians, Hebrews, and West Europeans, to name a few. Now if you ask what are the percentages of each, I can confidently say that not a single person on the planet can give you a solid answer.
@@ezzwhitezombie666 Luckily, I can assure what I've said confidently because simply I'm a Genetic Anthropologist 😁😃 this is my pure core of specialisation and the Egyptian ethnic group aka Copts aka Pharaohs aka ancient Egyptians currently constitute 91% of the ethnic composition of Egypt's current population of 115 million people. The ethnic groups you mentioned are existent in Egypt nowadays as ethnic minorities constituting 9% of the entire country's population.
Indeed, this is not true. The so-called Egyptian race does not exist today, Egypt is inhabited by Arabs whose origins are from the Arabian Peninsula or who were originally in Egypt before the Islamic conquests, and Arabs make up 92% of the population of Egypt, and there are Copts, who make up 8٪ And in Sudan, 70% of the population is Arab who migrated from the Arabian Peninsula, while the rest is made up of Nubians and Copts. As for Algeria, Amazigh are a secondary ethnicity, as they make up 27% of the total population, most of them know how to speak Arabic, As for Morocco, they constitute a larger percentage, as 40% of the population in Morocco are Amazigh, As for Libya, they just make up 25% of the total,And Tunisia, the overwhelming majority of the population is Arab population. (Source: Wikipedia, Algerian educational system)
@@hassan-madjidi You're soooo unlucky with you Wikipedia "credible" reference 😆😄😆 because I'm a Genetic Anthropologist 😁😃 this is my pure core of specialisation and the Egyptian ethnic group aka Copts aka Pharaohs aka ancient Egyptians currently constitute 91% of the ethnic composition of Egypt's current population of 115 million people. You're sp3itt5ing no5ns4en7se. The ethnic groups you're referring to including Arabs are ethnic minorities constituting 9% of the entire country's population.
2:07 side note Arabic poetry is probably the prettiest type of poetry.
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 he didn’t talk about about country colours he was talking about poetry
Im From Iraq and I also wondered the same thing. But now that I found this video Im very impressed about how this person answer to this Because every Arab country I fly to. They have like the same colour as the other Arab country. And I also went to Greece
Flagsession folk would love to have a copy
The 1 Jordanian Dinar has recently been redesigned. It doesn't show the Arab revolt anymore, but the Sinai rosefinch, the Jordanian national bird.
The old one was better
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
@@sufianS5 you are soo confidently wrong its scary. The red means the Hashemites bro
@@sufianS5halt die Klappe jordan is a British invention
I'm impressed that you mentioned my home Somaliland flag (North Somalia Independent State )flag that's mean you did a deep search to know that Somaliland has a similar flag too
This is not true. Every flag of an Arab country has its own meanings, for example, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and the Emirates. The red color does not refer to the Hashemites, it refers to the blood of the martyrs, black to mourning, and white to goodness. As for Jordan, for example, red refers to revolution, black to the Abbasid state, and white to the Umayyad state. And green to the Fatimid state
Inshallah we will get our independence Somaliland ha nolaato
Inshallah we will get our independence Somaliland ha nolaato
Why was Lebanon missed out? It has green (albeit a cedar tree), red and white
great video and history knowledge just one point i think you using wrong flag that one of UAE i think you used Kuwait flag in 12:08 just this mistake, thanks for the video