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Flag of the Libyan Republic[TR]
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Adopted[TD]February 27, 2011[/TD]
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Design[TD]Horizontal tricolor of red, black and green with white crescent and star in the center[/TD]
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The
National Transitional Council, formed on 27 February 2011, adopted the flag previously used in Kingdom of Libya between 1951 and 1969[SUP]
[1][/SUP] as the "emblem of the Libyan Republic".[SUP]
[2][/SUP] The flag was officially defined in article 3 of the
Libyan interim Constitutional Declaration.
The flag was initially used by protestors during the
Libyan Civil War and is being flown at Libyan diplomatic missions supporting the National Transitional Council. On 10 March 2011,
France was the first country to recognize the council as the official government of Libya.[SUP]
[3][/SUP] On 21 March 2011, the flag was flown by the Permanent Mission of Libya to the
United Nations and appeared on their official website,[SUP]
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[5][/SUP] and thereafter in late August by the
Arab League[SUP]
[6][/SUP] and by Libya's own telecommunications authority,[SUP]
[7][/SUP] namely the
Libya Telecom & Technology, on its own website. Green in the flag chosen by founding fathers of the Kingdom of Libya represents Tripolitanian Republic from 1918 to 1923 or Islam, red represents Ottoman Caliphate rule and the prominent color on the flagships of Tripoli in the nineteenth century, and the black part is identical to the flag of the emirate of Cyrenaica. [SUP]
[8][/SUP]
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Flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya[TR]
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Use[TD]
National flag and
civil ensign 
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Proportion[TD]usually 1:2[/TD]
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Adopted[TD]November 11, 1977[/TD]
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Design[TD]A Green Field[/TD]
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[TD="colspan: 2"]Variant flag of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya[/TD]
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Use[TD]
Naval ensign 
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Design[TD]A field of Light blue, with the National Flag of Libya in the canton and a white anchor with rope in the fly[/TD]
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The flag of the Gaddafi-led
Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya was adopted on November 11, 1977 and consists of a
green field. It is the only
national flag in the world with just one color and no design, insignia, or other details.[SUP]
[10][/SUP] It was chosen by Libyan leader
Muammar al-Gaddafi[SUP]
[11][/SUP] and reflects the historical green banners of the
Fatimid Caliphate, a state that included Libya. Green, the national color of Libya, symbolizes the predominant religion of
Islam as well as Gaddafi's "
Third Universal Theory".
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