Flag of Morocco

Morocco

Use	National flag and state ensign
Proportion	2:3
Adopted	17 November 1915
Design	A red field with the green pentagram, a five-pointed linear star.
Designed by	Mulay Yusef
Use	Civil ensign
Proportion	2:3
Design	With a yellow one-starred crown in the canton.
Use	Naval ensign
Proportion	2:3
Design	With a yellow one-starred crown in each corner.

The flag of Morocco (Arabic: علم المغرب; Template:Lang-ber) is made of a red field with a black-bordered green pentagram.

Red has considerable historic significance in Morocco, proclaiming the descent from royal Alaouite dynasty. This ruling house was associated with the Islamic prophet Muhammad via Fatimah, the wife of Ali, the fourth Muslim Caliph. Red is also the color that was used by the sharifs of Mecca and the imams of Yemen. From the 17th century on, when Morocco was ruled by the Alaouite dynasty, the flags of the country were plain red. In 1915, during the reign of Mulay Yusef, the green interlaced pentangle was added to the national flag, and it stands for Love, Truth, Peace, Freedom, and Justice. While Morocco was under French and Spanish control, the red flag with the seal in the center remained in use, but only inland. Its use at sea was prohibited. When independence was restored in 1956, it once again became the national flag.

The red background on the Moroccan flag represents hardiness, bravery, strength and valour, while the green represents love, joy, wisdom, peace and hope, it also represents the color of Islam and the pentagram the seal of Solomon.The 5 branches also represents the pillars of Islam.

Colours

The colors approximation is listed below:

Scheme	Red	Green
RGB	193-39-95	0-98-51
Hexadecimal	#c1272dff	#006233ff
CMYK	0, 80, 77, 24	100, 0, 48, 62

History

To be known from this book, may God uphold its value and to be around the centre of grace and joy its orbit, that due to the promotion of our Cherifian kingdom affairs, the spread of its glory and its pride, the need to assign a flag that distinct it from the rest of the kingdoms as that our sacred ancestors flag use to be very similar to some other flags especially the ones used in the marine signs, our noble vision decided to distinct our joyful flag by making the five pointed seal of Solomon in the middle in green, asking the almighty god to keep it waving with the winds of fortune and ambition for this time and the becoming, Amen and peace.

— Yusef of Morocco, [1], 17 November 1915

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In accordance with the seventh article of the constitution, the emblem of the Kingdom shall be a red flag with a five-pointed green star in the center.

The flag shall be made with fabric of canna red, opaque and rectangular in shape. The star shall be open, green like the leaf of palm trees, made of five continuous branches and woven in the same fabric where it must be visible on both sides of the flag. One of its points must point upwards. The hoist of the flag equals two thirds (2⁄3) of its fly. The star is inscribed in an invisible circle whose radius equals one sixth (1⁄6) of the fly's length and whose centre is the intersection point of the invisible diagonal lines of the flag's rectangular.

The width of each one of the branches of the star shall be 1⁄20 of its length.

— Mohammed VI of Morocco, About the characteristics of the Kingdom's emblem and national anthem (BO-5378-ar page 5) - bo-5378-fr page 6, 23 November 2005

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Wide and vertical presentations

On May 8, 2010, a Moroccan flag with a size of 60,409.78 square metres (650,245.5 sq ft), weighing 20 tonnes (22 short tons), was set in Dakhla, a city in the disputed territory of Western Sahara. It was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest flag ever draped.

Historical national flags

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  Flag of Morocco (Idrisid dynasty), 780–974
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  Flag of Morocco (Almoravid dynasty), 1070–1147
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  Flag of Morocco (Almohad dynasty), 1147–1248
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  Flag of Morocco, used along with a white banner (Marinid, Wattasid and Saadi dynasties), 1248–1659
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  Flag of Morocco (Alaouite dynasty), 1666–1915
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  Flag of Morocco, 1915–present

Other historical flags

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  Flag used in the 19th century
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  Flag of Republic of the Rif (1921–1926)
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  Flag of the Tangier International Zone (1923–1956)
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  Merchant flag of French protectorate in Morocco (1912–1955)
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  Merchant flag of Spanish protectorate in Morocco (1912–1956)

Other national flags

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  Civil Ensign
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  Naval Ensign
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  Naval Jack
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  Royal Standard
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  Royal Flag

See also

• Coat of arms of Morocco
• List of Moroccan flags

References

http://www.moroccotomorrow.org/the-moroccan-flag-moorish-americans-an-historical-perspective-frost/

External links

• Morocco at Flags of the World
• Morocco Historical Flags, FOTW