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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  • @nenenindonu
    @nenenindonu Жыл бұрын

    >Be a British advisor >Design a Pan-Arab flag >Ultimately divide all Arab nations >Refuses to elaborate further

  • @Ahmadbeik99

    @Ahmadbeik99

    Жыл бұрын

    We like it this way and they didnt design our flags

  • @Akinwalesegun

    @Akinwalesegun

    Жыл бұрын

    what are you saying?

  • @morenauer

    @morenauer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Happyfor96

    @Happyfor96

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @Ahmadbeik99

    @Ahmadbeik99

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Happyfor96 that's just your opinion

  • @joaopedrooliveiradasilva6938
    @joaopedrooliveiradasilva6938 Жыл бұрын

    Just a small correction: in the minute 10:47, that displayed flag is Kuwait's, not UAE's

  • @Liggliluff

    @Liggliluff

    Жыл бұрын

    Something did feel off 🇰🇼 Kuwait 🇦🇪 UAE

  • @Gmackematix

    @Gmackematix

    Жыл бұрын

    When that came up I thought, wait a minute, Kuwait is the only flag that looks like the inside of a box...

  • @AshleyBaker75

    @AshleyBaker75

    Жыл бұрын

    You're using Kuwait's flag for the UAE. UAE had a red box on the left.

  • @JohnnySabu

    @JohnnySabu

    Жыл бұрын

    Glad someone else also noticed the error.

  • @hamdanzarei5885

    @hamdanzarei5885

    Жыл бұрын

    Another correction, it says Oman as an emirate while he meant Ajman

  • @youseffarawila8125
    @youseffarawila81254 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @hamdicakr6061

    @hamdicakr6061

    3 ай бұрын

    Interesting, we call Mediterranean "Akdeniz" which is basically "White Sea" in Turkish. But Black Sea is far from Arab lands, right?

  • @sibeluysal8370

    @sibeluysal8370

    3 ай бұрын

    technically at the time it was on ottomans so it makes sense for me.@@hamdicakr6061

  • @Two-Timer

    @Two-Timer

    3 ай бұрын

    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

  • @sibeluysal8370

    @sibeluysal8370

    3 ай бұрын

    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

  • @user-gp9pj6cj1c

    @user-gp9pj6cj1c

    3 ай бұрын

    Red sea, black sea, white sea... 😂😂 So unlucky of them that they cannot claim the sea green...😂

  • @maozella7291
    @maozella72915 ай бұрын

    Very interesting & informative video which required a lot of research. Enjoyable! Thanks for your efforts!

  • @Two-Timer

    @Two-Timer

    3 ай бұрын

    This video is completely wrong about the colors.... Red white and green have nothing to do with semetic cultures but ancient West Asian traditions

  • @daveanderson3805
    @daveanderson3805 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @cfoc

    @cfoc

    Жыл бұрын

    I would like to see that video as well

  • @hindustan5878

    @hindustan5878

    Жыл бұрын

    We hindus will take all these arab and muslim land and make akhand bharat.

  • @Kratto0s

    @Kratto0s

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hindustan5878 in your dreams lil bro

  • @thestarseeker8196

    @thestarseeker8196

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TheStickman419

    @TheStickman419

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @cfoc
    @cfoc Жыл бұрын

    This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the second best Portuguese channel on KZread! Love every video. Keep it up, ou como se diz em Portugal, quipirãpe! :)

  • @rogink

    @rogink

    Жыл бұрын

    There's a better Portuguese KZreadr? 🤔

  • @massey81

    @massey81

    Жыл бұрын

    @@rogink probably the football channel one

  • @yeoseotidle2290

    @yeoseotidle2290

    Жыл бұрын

    No doubt this is one of the channels on KZread :)

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @aintthatmoee
    @aintthatmoee5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @omerbaranbali9194

    @omerbaranbali9194

    5 ай бұрын

    May I ask about the Ottoman Era? What do people mostly think about that times? Also colonialism or smthng different? Just curious😊

  • @aintthatmoee

    @aintthatmoee

    5 ай бұрын

    @@omerbaranbali9194 They had their pros and cons, but they contributed to our economy in different ways.

  • @MohamedELBatch-MOODesign

    @MohamedELBatch-MOODesign

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @Eyad_A

    @Eyad_A

    5 ай бұрын

    @@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.

  • @angryralphs2516

    @angryralphs2516

    5 ай бұрын

    Eagle represents Muhammad tribe.

  • @pritsie
    @pritsie5 ай бұрын

    This has been very informative. Now i understand more of all these conflicts

  • @Jamming_Jimmy
    @Jamming_Jimmy Жыл бұрын

    meanwhile the German Empire flag be like: but I'm not arab

  • @joahua122

    @joahua122

    Жыл бұрын

    lol

  • @southarabia0

    @southarabia0

    Жыл бұрын

    Reverse Yemeni flag

  • @someone_7233

    @someone_7233

    Жыл бұрын

    The german empire belonged to yemen all along!

  • @BesnikHawk

    @BesnikHawk

    Жыл бұрын

    This is a very underrated comment

  • @mustafarahi8670

    @mustafarahi8670

    Жыл бұрын

    You will be

  • @Lol_Pig
    @Lol_Pig5 ай бұрын

    This topic is something I only recently discovered and was curious about. Very informative video.

  • @almapisha5561
    @almapisha55615 ай бұрын

    very informative We would like to learn more Thank you ❤

  • @mangalamasthana6439
    @mangalamasthana6439 Жыл бұрын

    9:53 the flag is the flag of Kuwait not the flag of UAE

  • @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes I noticed this! I'm glad someone mentioned it, came to the comments to look for that haha

  • @alitheeagle8508

    @alitheeagle8508

    Жыл бұрын

    Kuwait it's not a country it's a province from Iraq the British cut it and make it a state

  • @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alitheeagle8508 So it is a country lol

  • @alitheeagle8508

    @alitheeagle8508

    Жыл бұрын

    @@giovanni_vaz_cardoso hahaha not funny fake state if something happened it's gonna vanish forever read the history especially the geopolitics side dummy

  • @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    Жыл бұрын

    @@alitheeagle8508 You're the dummy, just go to sleep

  • @Brew311
    @Brew3115 ай бұрын

    Very informative. Good job.

  • @abuomar4995
    @abuomar49953 ай бұрын

    Very well researched and presented.

  • @tomstieve
    @tomstieve Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @aviadk

    @aviadk

    Жыл бұрын

    Bot

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @EllisMcCollum-ww8tk

    @EllisMcCollum-ww8tk

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@sufianS5you know two these things can be right ?

  • @71q

    @71q

    5 ай бұрын

    @@EllisMcCollum-ww8tkThe dream is a unified Arab country with all capabilities, but the spoiled Western dog wanted to divide us

  • @kofiarthur3749

    @kofiarthur3749

    5 ай бұрын

    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

  • @neroziozama4902
    @neroziozama4902 Жыл бұрын

    Nice video. Loved the arabic music in the background 🤗 I would really like to see a similar video on the pan-slavic coloured flags

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @neroziozama4902

    @neroziozama4902

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 I see, very interesting, but why are you saying this to me? I only left a comment. I didn't make the video...

  • @graspingoil
    @graspingoil5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @youtubeexpert2441
    @youtubeexpert2441 Жыл бұрын

    بيض صنائعنا سود وقائعنا خضر مرابعنا حمر مواضينا

  • @bander-Coolb

    @bander-Coolb

    11 ай бұрын

    سل الرماح العوالي عن معالينا

  • @FactStorm
    @FactStorm Жыл бұрын

    You're an information sponge and a hard worker. Well-done, that was an exquisite presentation. Wow!

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @FactStorm

    @FactStorm

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 Of course they all have different meanings

  • @Terra-YT
    @Terra-YT Жыл бұрын

    Wow General Knowledge this might be my favourite video of yours yet. You're a total inspiration and actually because of seeing your success I've decided to start making videos too! Keep grinding, your hard work clearly pays off!

  • @therightshow5928

    @therightshow5928

    Жыл бұрын

    w

  • @FilthyBritain

    @FilthyBritain

    Жыл бұрын

    Grand lad

  • @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    Жыл бұрын

    Your thumbnails Follow a "Real life lore" Format tho.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @hettfield
    @hettfield Жыл бұрын

    A video on the Bolivar flags of South America would be great 🇨🇴🇪🇨🇻🇪

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    Why is the name of your country Granada?

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @goransekulic3671

    @goransekulic3671

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @user-yi8gp3mq4x

    @user-yi8gp3mq4x

    11 ай бұрын

    Boliviar country poor lol

  • @AhmedEx1.

    @AhmedEx1.

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@goransekulic3671no, in this case black is

  • @crzysurf
    @crzysurf5 ай бұрын

    That was cool. Thanks.

  • @elnurmehdizade
    @elnurmehdizade7 ай бұрын

    insightful 👍

  • Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    @giovanni_vaz_cardoso

    Жыл бұрын

    It's not.

  • @vidarodinson5246

    @vidarodinson5246

    Жыл бұрын

    Having green and white flag doesn't make the flag of pan arabism. Andalucia flag are different than arab flag.

  • Жыл бұрын

    ​@@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.

  • @vidarodinson5246

    @vidarodinson5246

    Жыл бұрын

    @ 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.

  • @adilnourddine9747

    @adilnourddine9747

    Жыл бұрын

    Cause andalucia was ruled by moors (moroccans) not arabs and morocco was not part of the ottoman empire

  • @OdysseyTag
    @OdysseyTag Жыл бұрын

    Awesome video. Have you done a video on the Pan-African Rastafari colours used on the flags on many central and west African countries?

  • @mohamedkhder6258

    @mohamedkhder6258

    Жыл бұрын

    Basically all came from the Ethiopian flag because how Ethiopia was only occupied for 5 years ,

  • @woozyz2769

    @woozyz2769

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lH2omLqondy8ito.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 😂

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @tugbabulut2106
    @tugbabulut21065 ай бұрын

    Fascinating to see how easy to concur even design the flag

  • @dbms1340
    @dbms1340 Жыл бұрын

    That was awesome ❤

  • @nenenindonu
    @nenenindonu Жыл бұрын

    Qatar & Bahrain : And I took that personally

  • @papazataklaattiranimam

    @papazataklaattiranimam

    Жыл бұрын

    👁️👄👁️

  • @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    Жыл бұрын

    @@papazataklaattiranimam qatar jumpscare

  • @saifulalam017

    @saifulalam017

    Жыл бұрын

    Oman also 😅

  • @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    @YoureRatharStewpidMate

    Жыл бұрын

    @@saifulalam017 the flag of oman is insanely unique tho

  • @Azoz-bu7ck

    @Azoz-bu7ck

    Жыл бұрын

    our flaq is old and arab

  • @coppermike5550
    @coppermike5550 Жыл бұрын

    Well done!! Yes!! I'd love to see the Slavic tricolor explanation!!

  • @Judge_Magister

    @Judge_Magister

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @YeshuaIsTheTruth

    @YeshuaIsTheTruth

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @dehydrateddarkness3565

    @dehydrateddarkness3565

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Judge_Magister

    @Judge_Magister

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 yes and the white stands for my ass. Lets not take this world too seriously mate, its all a trick of the mind.

  • @lovrosmrekar4922
    @lovrosmrekar4922 Жыл бұрын

    Great video, would love to see one about the Pan-Slavic colours in flags.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @bukky2003
    @bukky20033 ай бұрын

    Thank you man you gave me knowledge for my social studies test😸

  • @hariottappalam8912
    @hariottappalam89124 ай бұрын

    GOOD JOB

  • @sarmadka
    @sarmadka Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @realxotic9943

    @realxotic9943

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes I’m Syrian and I also only hear of Safi al-Din al-Hilli and have never heard of the first explanation

  • @H3MAESSAM

    @H3MAESSAM

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @JakkWagon

    @JakkWagon

    5 ай бұрын

    islam relies on mindless minion slaves bent on conformity 😅

  • @User_5tjk42gj9

    @User_5tjk42gj9

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@sarmadkaIts not trolling, read their books. Its full of child rpe and sex slaves.

  • @xxlunarxdxx1062

    @xxlunarxdxx1062

    5 ай бұрын

    IM ALSO FROM IRAQ :DD

  • @grizwoldphantasia5005
    @grizwoldphantasia5005 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mohamedkhder6258

    @mohamedkhder6258

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @mikaelbohman6694

    @mikaelbohman6694

    Жыл бұрын

    All originate from the Dutch tricolour, including the French one.

  • @Gmackematix

    @Gmackematix

    Жыл бұрын

    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...

  • @alainszyller615

    @alainszyller615

    Жыл бұрын

    and german Empire flag was also Red, white, black

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @TheLandOfThePain
    @TheLandOfThePain4 ай бұрын

    @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.

  • @asterismos5451
    @asterismos5451 Жыл бұрын

    I'd love a video on the Slavic flags, but also Scandinavian and Gold Coast flags!

  • @StuTun
    @StuTun Жыл бұрын

    Super interesting, as always. It would be nice to see a video about the different Slavic flags and how they developed. 😁

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @StuTun

    @StuTun

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 The colours as you describe them were explained in the video.

  • @farouqomaro598
    @farouqomaro598 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @CanadianEhHole

    @CanadianEhHole

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @faizanzamberi9208

    @faizanzamberi9208

    4 ай бұрын

    There was history how star spangled banner originate.. all its back to south east asian Majapahit empire..

  • @funkoxen
    @funkoxen5 ай бұрын

    This is really interesting

  • @chanelahti
    @chanelahti Жыл бұрын

    We really want to see the pan-slavic flags video! And also the Scandinavian flags would be interesting...

  • @Ghhhjghggyiiu

    @Ghhhjghggyiiu

    Жыл бұрын

    ‏ابوه السلافية

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @eyasal-khalidi6577
    @eyasal-khalidi6577 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @nanahey-jz4lz

    @nanahey-jz4lz

    5 ай бұрын

    ​@@sufianS5as a Jordanian, what they said is true, and what your saying is completely irrelevant to the comment 💀

  • @isaacbettinger5381
    @isaacbettinger53813 ай бұрын

    I want a video about the flags that use blue, red, and white next week!

  • @isaacbettinger5381

    @isaacbettinger5381

    3 ай бұрын

    Me too!

  • @Arda_Tz

    @Arda_Tz

    3 ай бұрын

    @@isaacbettinger5381 schizophrenia

  • @learnurduwithsara1068
    @learnurduwithsara10684 ай бұрын

    Wao this is something I have always wondered.

  • @johnsmith99997
    @johnsmith99997 Жыл бұрын

    red blue black and green are the first and easiest dyes to make and white can be made by bleaching

  • @bonumirbinsaif9013
    @bonumirbinsaif9013 Жыл бұрын

    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 🇴🇲

  • @gambigambigambi

    @gambigambigambi

    Жыл бұрын

    Oman is the only Arab flag that has personality. The others are just boring.

  • @brianwashedhunter1150

    @brianwashedhunter1150

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gambigambigambi You are boring

  • @gambigambigambi

    @gambigambigambi

    Жыл бұрын

    @@brianwashedhunter1150 Aw did I offend you? Oman. Flag. Has. Personalityyyyyy.

  • @generalofwar6

    @generalofwar6

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gambigambigambi Lebanon 🇱🇧? Morocco 🇲🇦?

  • @viii151

    @viii151

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gambigambigambi Pan-Arab flags has history and deeper meaning behind them.

  • @sulaiman1630
    @sulaiman163011 ай бұрын

    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

  • @malakilikemokaaa1385
    @malakilikemokaaa13859 ай бұрын

    The seven-pointed star in the flag of my country, Jordan, means Surat Al-Fatihah in the Qur’an, which has seven verses

  • @user-xr2jt7ss4o
    @user-xr2jt7ss4o Жыл бұрын

    9:51 it's the flag of Kuwait 🇰🇼 not UAE🇦🇪

  • @Raphiti69
    @Raphiti69 Жыл бұрын

    Thanks! Could you please do it for Slavics and also central American countries?

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    They have an old aryan symbol

  • @tlamatini4617

    @tlamatini4617

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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?

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @elsayedwaleed2029
    @elsayedwaleed20295 ай бұрын

    Bro the red actually stands for the myrtars blood in battle ❤ thanks for taking the time to try to learn about this

  • @SayWhut276

    @SayWhut276

    5 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this. I have a question, it was referred to as "The Arab Revolt" in the video, is this a name given by the colonizers or is this how the Arab wold describes the conflict with the Ottoman Empire?

  • @arizjones

    @arizjones

    5 ай бұрын

    For me it stands for all the innocent slaughtered by Islamic conquest and occupation.

  • @Randomthoughtguys
    @Randomthoughtguys7 ай бұрын

    Great explanation, however, UAE 🇦🇪 flag was misrepresented with the Kuwait 🇰🇼 flag. Thanks 😊

  • @Qode123
    @Qode123 Жыл бұрын

    بيضٌ صنائعنا، سودٌ وقائعنا، خضرٌ مرابعنا، حمرٌ مواضينا.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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….

  • @YeshuaIsTheTruth
    @YeshuaIsTheTruth Жыл бұрын

    It would be neat to see one of these on red, white, and blue flags

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @lana_354

    @lana_354

    4 ай бұрын

    ​@@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

  • @amosculbreth5308
    @amosculbreth53083 ай бұрын

    When I see red white and black I think of Pan African colors , didn’t realize Arab nations used them too that’s cool

  • @jamessanders145
    @jamessanders145 Жыл бұрын

    It's so great to see so many fellow 5s in one place.

  • @funkoxen

    @funkoxen

    5 ай бұрын

    What does this mean?

  • @jamessanders145

    @jamessanders145

    5 ай бұрын

    @@funkoxen it's a reference to enneagram 5

  • @funkoxen

    @funkoxen

    5 ай бұрын

    @jamessanders145 sounds right but a very obscure reference to splash out there without explantation. Guess I investgated it though.

  • @jamessanders145

    @jamessanders145

    5 ай бұрын

    @@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?

  • @funkoxen

    @funkoxen

    5 ай бұрын

    @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.

  • @luismariogonzalez2603
    @luismariogonzalez2603 Жыл бұрын

    We need a fun with flags episode

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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…

  • @5cats267
    @5cats267 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @5cats267

    @5cats267

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 كيف غير صحيح.. النسر الذهبي ده حيوان يعيش في سيناء وكان رمز لصلاح الدين على القلعة المسماة باسمه في القاهرة

  • @HughJass-jv2lt
    @HughJass-jv2lt5 ай бұрын

    Good vid

  • @hannibal2barca
    @hannibal2barca10 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @randomsandwichian
    @randomsandwichian Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @radroud5452

    @radroud5452

    5 ай бұрын

    All flags are from early 20th century. The Arab revolt against the ottomans.

  • @curtisthomas2670
    @curtisthomas2670 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @noorbohamad5796

    @noorbohamad5796

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 ok? got anything else you’d like to share?

  • @desertbloom9634

    @desertbloom9634

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 and what about palestine? what are the colors for? what is their history?

  • @joshbonds0073

    @joshbonds0073

    5 ай бұрын

    @@sufianS5first of all Egypt and Sudan are African countries (Black countries) that just happen to have arabs because of their invasion of Africa

  • @beanapprentice1687

    @beanapprentice1687

    5 ай бұрын

    @@sufianS5did you really have to repeat this comment a dozen times?

  • @Rysef
    @Rysef Жыл бұрын

    U didn't give am explanation for sudan i was waiting for it patiently

  • @NIH601
    @NIH6014 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @baddbeliever
    @baddbeliever Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @XxxX-wx3er

    @XxxX-wx3er

    6 ай бұрын

    There’s a difference between colonisation and mandate, as the Ottoman Empire fell after losing WW1. Those countries were not “colonised”.

  • @dcohen1969

    @dcohen1969

    5 ай бұрын

    Ya.. the British and French cared about ensuring Israel’s survival 😂

  • @baddbeliever

    @baddbeliever

    5 ай бұрын

    same difference. administered by a foreign power either way. @@XxxX-wx3er

  • @MoAd-mo6ov

    @MoAd-mo6ov

    5 ай бұрын

    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

  • @71q

    @71q

    5 ай бұрын

    @@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. 😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ASMM1981EGY
    @ASMM1981EGY Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @mohamedkhder6258

    @mohamedkhder6258

    Жыл бұрын

    I thought everyone knew that?

  • @ezzwhitezombie666

    @ezzwhitezombie666

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @ASMM1981EGY

    @ASMM1981EGY

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @hassan-madjidi

    @hassan-madjidi

    Жыл бұрын

    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)

  • @ASMM1981EGY

    @ASMM1981EGY

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @humanbeing5553
    @humanbeing55534 ай бұрын

    10:06 bro this is kuwait 🇰🇼 flag not UAE 🇦🇪

  • @MYInteriorArchitect
    @MYInteriorArchitect4 ай бұрын

    اللَّهُمَّ أَنْتَ الْأوََّلُ فَلَيْسَ قَبْلَكَ شَيْءٌ، وَأَنْتَ الْآخِرُ فَلَيْسَ بَعْدَكَ شَيْءٌ، وَأَنْتَ الظَّاهِرُ فَلَيْسَ فَوْقَكَ شَيْءٌ، وَأَنْتَ الْبَاطِنُ فَلَيْسَ دُونَكَ شَيْءٌ، اقْضِ عَنَّا الدَّيْنَ وَأَغْنِنَا مِنَ الْفَقْرِ

  • @JustCat_3209

    @JustCat_3209

    4 ай бұрын

    Allahuakhbar ☝️☪️

  • @shahriarchowdhury7871
    @shahriarchowdhury7871 Жыл бұрын

    Very informative video yet completely neutral take. Thank you!

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Zaephrax
    @Zaephrax Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Rawan_unfiltered

    @Rawan_unfiltered

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @anthonymatthews7440

    @anthonymatthews7440

    5 ай бұрын

    @@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

  • @Zaephrax

    @Zaephrax

    5 ай бұрын

    @@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

  • @farahzeiada5084

    @farahzeiada5084

    4 ай бұрын

    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

  • @anthonymatthews7440

    @anthonymatthews7440

    4 ай бұрын

    @@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

  • @anassulaiman888
    @anassulaiman8885 ай бұрын

    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

  • @philipanthonyclark3225
    @philipanthonyclark32255 ай бұрын

    Excellent

  • @aejjy8shaieizi13
    @aejjy8shaieizi1311 ай бұрын

    Nice vid

  • @bussin3877
    @bussin3877 Жыл бұрын

    Why did you skip Sudan? It has a very rich story

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @user-wx2vq4qd1q

    @user-wx2vq4qd1q

    Жыл бұрын

    we have a rich history yet our leader Nemiri choose for us this ugly arab flag

  • @roch.el_
    @roch.el_ Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @DoctorAdamSaab

    @DoctorAdamSaab

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @asherl5902

    @asherl5902

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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…

  • @781yya

    @781yya

    3 ай бұрын

    Same Goes with algeria and morocco

  • @ywgh4387
    @ywgh43874 ай бұрын

    9:02 and this flag looks like a "crazy eyes" emoji!

  • @DanoFSmith-yc9tg
    @DanoFSmith-yc9tg5 ай бұрын

    That black crescent and star flag is bad ass.

  • @cliffsider
    @cliffsider Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see a video about Slavic flags.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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..

  • @aname5078
    @aname5078 Жыл бұрын

    2:07 side note Arabic poetry is probably the prettiest type of poetry.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Luna83644

    @Luna83644

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 he didn’t talk about about country colours he was talking about poetry

  • @typh0n33
    @typh0n333 ай бұрын

    The Egyptian 1952 flag had an eagle as its emblem

  • @CommanderBunbun-fx5xu
    @CommanderBunbun-fx5xu5 ай бұрын

    Germany: those are interesting colours. Tchoos *sweating profusely*

  • @user-fb9zv9uu4w
    @user-fb9zv9uu4w Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @itsame2271

    @itsame2271

    Жыл бұрын

    It's already mentioned in the video

  • @user-fb9zv9uu4w

    @user-fb9zv9uu4w

    Жыл бұрын

    @@itsame2271 At what time was it mentioned specifically?

  • @Omer1996E.C

    @Omer1996E.C

    Жыл бұрын

    @@itsame2271 no, it's not

  • @ahmedmuayad2013

    @ahmedmuayad2013

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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

  • @MRMOH-st6pr

    @MRMOH-st6pr

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-fb9zv9uu4w At exactly 02:00

  • @emranal-qawasmi2775
    @emranal-qawasmi2775 Жыл бұрын

    The 1 Jordanian Dinar has recently been redesigned. It doesn't show the Arab revolt anymore, but the Sinai rosefinch, the Jordanian national bird.

  • @thongbong

    @thongbong

    Жыл бұрын

    The old one was better

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @thongbong

    @thongbong

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sufianS5 you are soo confidently wrong its scary. The red means the Hashemites bro

  • @justabeardedguythatisahero9848

    @justabeardedguythatisahero9848

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sufianS5halt die Klappe jordan is a British invention

  • @yildiz12321
    @yildiz123216 ай бұрын

    I believe two pictures at 2:43 belong to the Ottoman forces with the legendary Fahreddin Pasha and the Ottoman Flags :)

  • @glorianyambok7405
    @glorianyambok74055 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @tkaraburk

    @tkaraburk

    5 ай бұрын

    you are using white man's flag. its tragic.

  • @CanadianEhHole

    @CanadianEhHole

    5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @CanadianEhHole

    @CanadianEhHole

    5 ай бұрын

    @@tkaraburk Look at you, using the white man's language.

  • @GreoGreo

    @GreoGreo

    3 ай бұрын

    @@CanadianEhHole غسل اسنانك

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam Жыл бұрын

    Fun Fact: Libyan, Tunisian and Algerian flags literally come from Ottoman flag :)

  • @Adriatic1290

    @Adriatic1290

    Жыл бұрын

    Das cool

  • @alomaralsulaiman6501

    @alomaralsulaiman6501

    Жыл бұрын

    Libyan flag is based on the sanusi movement in Libya.

  • @xd....225

    @xd....225

    Жыл бұрын

    What about Turkey:)

  • @Skikdii

    @Skikdii

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @Ahmadbeik99

    @Ahmadbeik99

    Жыл бұрын

    Nop, it comes from bani hilal, the Arab tribe of north Africa, means sons of the cresent

  • @lucinae8510
    @lucinae8510 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    @user-cg2tw8pw7j

    Жыл бұрын

    There is a European country whose flag is similar to the flag of Russia

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @yararitaa2002
    @yararitaa20024 ай бұрын

    Interesting! Why no discussion of Lebanon?

  • @MrKey656
    @MrKey6565 ай бұрын

    sheldon cooper, fun with flags

  • @rapiran101
    @rapiran101 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @user-nn8cw6nv6g

    @user-nn8cw6nv6g

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @derunfassbarebielecki

    @derunfassbarebielecki

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @hashira9223

    @hashira9223

    Жыл бұрын

    The Ottomans weren't the first Muslims who put crescent on their flag, so no

  • @scarymonster5541

    @scarymonster5541

    Жыл бұрын

    The real symbol of islam is shahada or الله اكبر

  • @user-nn8cw6nv6g

    @user-nn8cw6nv6g

    Жыл бұрын

    @@scarymonster5541 هناك رموز كثيرة ، عبقري ...

  • @certifieddinar3648
    @certifieddinar3648 Жыл бұрын

    the fact you mention somaliland is good finally we getting sum international recognition thx

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @MirnaHola
    @MirnaHola4 ай бұрын

    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

  • @user-vv8ws9bn8b
    @user-vv8ws9bn8b4 ай бұрын

    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

  • @mustafa7941
    @mustafa7941 Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @mojo4569

    @mojo4569

    Жыл бұрын

    Inshallah we will get our independence Somaliland ha nolaato

  • @mojo4569

    @mojo4569

    Жыл бұрын

    Inshallah we will get our independence Somaliland ha nolaato

  • @F.Khalid
    @F.Khalid Жыл бұрын

    Can you do a video about the "Arab league", like the one you did about the "United states of Europe".

  • @eggnog_egg

    @eggnog_egg

    Жыл бұрын

    ay another saudi!!

  • @mikidias

    @mikidias

    Жыл бұрын

    Ohhhhh 😯 😮 Antha Saudi 🇸🇦!!???? MashAllah! 🤩 Ahlan 🤗

  • @Fai9albinKhalid3

    @Fai9albinKhalid3

    Жыл бұрын

    Alsalamu Alaykum 🙃

  • @Lydia.LaMar0
    @Lydia.LaMar05 ай бұрын

    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?

  • @fernando-loula
    @fernando-loula5 ай бұрын

    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.

  • @R.A.A.
    @R.A.A. Жыл бұрын

    To all my people wherever you are... From #Kuwait with Love ☀️🇰🇼🌷 إِنَّ الذي مَلَأَ اللُّغات مَحاسِناً … جَعَلَ الجَمالَ وسِرّه في الضّادِ

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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…

  • @R.A.A.

    @R.A.A.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@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.

  • @t0n0k0
    @t0n0k0 Жыл бұрын

    Pan-African colours influenced flags in African countries and origins would be a great watch too.

  • @sufianS5

    @sufianS5

    Жыл бұрын

    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

  • @ItzTankzz

    @ItzTankzz

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@sufianS5 bro stop spamming this comment

  • @iheartm4ri
    @iheartm4ri5 ай бұрын

    I’m Algerian and this is so freaking interesting

  • @amremad-ie4dd
    @amremad-ie4dd11 ай бұрын

    as you said 3:08 all of these was designed by the same person Mark Sykes