See soorce fer Banner o Sirie

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The current '''banner o [[Sirie]]''' ({{lang-ar|'''علم سوريا'''}}) wis re-adoptit in 1980. It is an aa the banner o the umwhile [[Unitit Arab Republic]].

== History ==

The first banner tae be uised bi the Sirians, in 1920, wis the current [[banner o Jordan]] wi the green an white colors reversed. The colors an design wur taken frae the Pan-Arab banner an inspired bi the [[banner o the Arab Revolt]]. The starns staund for the fact that Sirie wis the first kintra tae uise the Pan-Arab colors.

The French chyngit the banner o Sirie unner thair mandate intae a blue banner wi a white crescent in the centre an a French banner in the canton.  Efter a month the banner wis chyngit intae a horizontally striped green-white-green banner wi a French tricolor in the canton. This banner wis in uise frae 1925 till 1936 (alang wi banners o several cantons intae which Sirie wis dividit unner French colonial rule).  Then the banner wis chyngit intae a horizontally striped green-white-black [[tricolour]] banner wi three reid [[five-pointit star]]s in the centre o the white stripe.  This follaed the signin o the Franco-Sirian treaty which gae Sirie pairtial unthirldom.  The first naitional banner o Sirie efter unthirldom in 1946 wis this green-white-black banner wi three reid stars.

In 1958, Sirie an [[Egyp]] merged tae form the [[Unitit Arab Republic]] an adoptit the reid-white-black design wi twa green starns that is Sirie's current banner.  When Sirie left the UAR in 1961 it briefly revertit tae its auld green-white-black banner.

Housomeivver, the [[Ba'ath Pairty|Ba'athist]] coup in 1963 led tae a reid-white-black banner wi three green starns in the white baund (the same banner uised bi [[Iraq]] at the time — rumors o a union atween the twa naitions aboondit).

In 1971, a reid-white-black banner wi a gowden hawk in the white stripe wis uised as a banner for the [[Federation o Arab Republics]] which consistit o Sirie, Egyp an Libie. The starns wur remuivit frae the banner an replaced bi a gowden hawk (the "Hawk o [[Quraysh (tribe)|Qureish]]"), hauldin a scroll wi the Arabic name o the Federation.

In 1980, the current reid-white-black banner wi twa green starns in the white stripe wis re-adoptit.  The chynge restored the tap reid stripe tae the same reid uised in the Unitit Arab Republic banner.  The banner o 1972 haed lichtened the reid colour slichtly.

Sicweys Sirie haes haed sax naitional banners (o fower distinct designs) syne unthirldom in 1946.

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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Kingdom of Syria (1920-03-08 to 1920-07-24).svg|Caption=1920, Kinrick o Sirie}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of the French Mandate of Syria (1920).svg|Caption=1920-1922, Mandate o Sirie}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Syria French mandate.svg|Caption=1922-1932, Sirie Federation an State o Sirie}}
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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg|Caption=1932-1958, Sirian Republic}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Syria.svg|Caption=1958-1961, Unitit Arab Republic}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Syria-flag 1932-58 1961-63.svg|Caption=1961-1963, Sirian Arab Republic}}
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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Iraq (1963-1991).svg|Caption=1963-1972, Sirian Arab Republic}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag_of_Egypt_(1972-1984).svg|Caption=1972-1980, Sirian Arab Republic in the Federation o Arab Republics}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Syria.svg|Caption=1980-Present, Sirian Arab Republic}}
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== Mandate o Sirie ==
Each o the states in the French Mandate o Sirie haed thair an banner. The [[Sanjak o Alexandretta]], which wis a pairt o Aleppo frae 1920 tae 1923 an then a pairt o the [[Alawite]] State frae 1923 tae 1938, did no hae its awn banner till it became independent as the [[Hatay State|State o Hatay]].

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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of the State of Aleppo.svg|Caption=1920-1925, State o [[Aleppo]]}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of the State of Damascus.svg|Caption=1920-1925, State o [[Damascus]]}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Latakiya-sanjak-Alawite-state-French-colonial-flag.svg|Caption=1920-1936, Alawite Territory, Alawite State, an Sanjak o [[Latakia]]}}
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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of the State of Souaida (state).svg|Caption=1921-1924, State o [[Souaida]]}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Flag of Jabal ad-Druze (state).svg|Caption=1924-1936, State o Souaida an Jebel Druze State}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Civil Ensign of Jabal ad-Druze (1921-1936).svg|Caption=1921-1936, Ceevil banner o Souaida an [[Jebel Druze]]}}
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{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Lebanese French flag.svg|Caption=1920-1943, State o Greater [[Lebanon]] an Lebanese Republic}}
{{Flag entry|Width=200|Image=Hatay flag.svg|Caption=1938-1939, State o Hatay}}
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== Seembolism ==
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The colors o the banner are traditional [[Pan-Arab colors]], an aa seen on the banners o [[Banner o Yemen|Yemen]], [[Banner o Egyp|Egyp]], [[Banner o Sudan|Sudan]], an [[Banner o Iraq|Iraq]]. The twa starns represent Egyp an Sirie, the twa participatin naitions in the Unitit Arab Republic. The green is thocht tae be the colour o the [[Rashidun]] or [[Fatimid]]s, white the colour o the [[Umayyads]], black the colour o [[Abbasids]] an reid the colour o the bluid o martyrs, awtho it is thocht that reid wis the colour o the Hashemite dynasty an it wis addit efter [[Sharif Hussayn]] o [[Hijaz]] agreed tae jyne the Arab revolt o 1916.

== See an aa ==
* [[Coat o airms o Sirie]]
 
== Freemit airtins ==
* [http://www.damascus-online.com/history/flags.htm  History of the Sirian Banner] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061006232104/http://www.damascus-online.com/history/flags.htm |date=2006-10-06 }}
* {{FOTW|id=sy|title=Syria}}

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