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Asia

Syria

Ratio: 2:3 Adopted: March 29, 1980 Usage: National and Civil

An earlier version Red, white, black,
of the flag had three and green are
stars, in anticipation pan-Arab colors
of a union
incorporating Syria, The two green stars
Egypt, and Iraq
originally represented
Syria and Egypt,
although they are
now said to represent
Syria and Iraq

Syria was created after the dissolution of French
392)!
)RAQ colonial rule in 1946. From 1958–1961 it merged
* *ORDAN
with Egypt to form the United Arab Republic.
In 1920, while still a French colony, of the United Arab Republic, but
Syria flew a green-white-green with three stars.
tribar with a French Tricolore in the On leaving the union in 1961, Syria
canton. At independence this was briefly reverted to its original flag,
changed to a green, white, and black before re-adopting the Arab
tricolor, with three red stars for its Liberation colors in 1963.
provinces across its center. Its current The arms of Syria depicts the
red, white, and black pan-Arabic flag, Hawk of Quraish. It is almost
was adopted when Syria became part identical with the arms of Libya.

ARMS OF SYRIA
The hawk was the
emblem of the Quraish
tribe to which the Prophet
The shield is
in the form of a Muhammad belonged
national flag

The inscription reads–
in Arabic—“Arab
Republic of Syria”

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