Banner o Qatar

Dimensions: 11:28

The banner o Qatar (Arabic: علم قطر‎) has a proportion of 11:28. It is maroon color with a broad white serrated band (nine white points) on the hoist side.

The meanin o Qatar’s banner is:

The white color reflects the internaitionally recognized seembol o peace
The maroon color seembolizes the blood shed durin the several wars Qatar haed unnergane, particularly in the seicont hauf o the 19t century.
The nine-point serratit line indicates that Qatar is the 9t member o the "reconciled Emirates" o the Persian Gulf in the wake o concludin the Qatari-Breetish treaty in 1916.

It is vera similar tae the banner o the neighbourin kintra o Bahrain, which haes fewer points, a 3:5 proportion, an a red colour instead o purple. A common explanation o the differences between the twa, is simply tae distinguish them.^[1] A popular but fanciful tale referrin tae the maroon color an the similarity tae the red Bahrain banner, is that purple is wha becomes o red fading in the Gulf sun.^[2]. The legend goes that Qatar's banner uised tae be red, an that a new type o dye wis uised for the oreeginal banners. Housomeivver efter being left in the sun, the colour chynged tae maroon, which wis then regardit tae be a mair bonnie colour (bi coincidence). That is an aa why this specific shade o maroon is cawed "Qatar Red".

Qatar's emir, like Kuwait's, is no kent tae hae a personal staundart, nor does any other member o the ryal family.

[edit] History

It is assumed that, in 1855, Shaikh jasim ibn Muhammad Al Thani awready uised a banner wi similar pattern an the colour red an white. The banner wis offeecially adoptit on Julie 9, 1971, although a nearly identical banner (ae differin in proportion) haed been uised since 1949.