Bashkiria (Russia)

Bas^kortostan

Last modified: 2000-01-14 by antonio martins
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• Presentation of Bashkiria
• Description of the flag
• Rejected proposal
• Flag of 1990

• Bashkiria in Soviet Union, 1920-1992
• pre-Soviet Bashkirian flag, 1916-1917
• Independentist pan-turkish flag (Idel Ural)
• Russia
• Russian subdivisions
• Clickable map of russian subdivisions

• Bashkortostan — small encyclopedia (in Russian), with the description of the state flag, state coat of arms and historical coats of arms and symbols
  reported by Jorge Candeias
• Republic coat of arms, two images (image #1 and image #2)
  reported by Dov Gutterman, 17 Dec 1998

(Note: You need an appropriate font to correctely view the cyrillic text on this page. See here transliteration details).

Name
    (english): Bashkiria
    (russian, short form): Башкортостан | Bas^kortostan
    (russian, long form): Республика Башкортостан | Respublika Bas^kortostan
Local official language: Bashkir
Capital: Уфа | Ufa
Area: 143 600 km² (55 400 sq.mi.)
Population: 4 008 000 inhabitants in 1992
Status: Republic (Республика | Respublika) within the Russian Federation
Economic region: Ural
License plate code: 02
Ham radio code: BA
ISO 3166-2 code: BA
Flag adopted in 1992.02.25
Coat of arms adopted in 1993.10.12

On 25 February 1992 the local Soviet approved another flag [different from the 1990 proposal — ed.], with the same colors in a different order (skyblue - white - green) and a golden flower in a white circle. The flower is called kurai (Phragmites communis Trin.), the Bashkor rose, which grows only in that region and it is used to make musical instruments. It has seven petals for the seven tribes.
Giuseppe Bottasini, quoting Aldo Ziggioto

The green is dark green, close to the color of Adygeja, although the law only describes "green". The emblem is in gold lines and has complete measures given in the law.
Ralf Stelter, 25 Jul 1999 and 27 Jul 1999

This picture shows the proposal never adopted.
Ralf Stelter, 27 Jul 1999

A first flag appeared on 11 October 1990: it was the one of Bashkor Popular Party, with three horizontal strips: skyblue (for Turkish people), green (Islam) and white (purity).
Giuseppe Bottasini, quoting Aldo Ziggioto