22-586: Kök Bayraq means "blue flag" or "blue banner" in Crimean Tatar and Uyghur. It may refer to the: Flag of the Crimean People's Republic (1917–1918), now widely used to represent Crimean Tatars in general Flag of the First East Turkestan Republic (1933–1934), now widely used to represent East Turkestan or Uyghurs in general Topics referred to by
44-572: A new nation was quickly defeated by the Bolshevik and anarchist dominated Black Sea Fleet . Already on 16 December 1917, the Bolsheviks captured Sevastopol, where the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet was located, and dissolved the local council of deputies. Power in the city was transferred to the local revkom . The Bolsheviks were supported by some ships of the Black Sea Fleet. To defend itself,
66-521: A plain red flag. The short-lived Crimean Regional Government ( Russian : Крымское краевое правительство ), led by General Maciej (Suleyman) Sulkiewicz (a Lithuanian Tatar by origin), existed during the German occupation of Crimea (25 June–15 November 1918), in which the Crimean government proclaimed a self-rule. Sulkiewicz's government adopted a flag which seemed to be a compromise between Crimean Tatars and
88-535: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Flag of Crimea The flag of Crimea ( Russian : Флаг Крыма , romanized : Flag Kryma ; Ukrainian : Прапор Криму , romanized : Prapor Krymu ; Crimean Tatar : Къырым байрагъы , romanized: Qırım bayrağı ) is the flag of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Ukraine and
110-705: The Crimean Oblast ( region ) on 30 June 1945, its flag was abolished. A Crimean ASSR was re-established within the Ukrainian SSR in 1991 during the collapse of the Soviet Union . Crimean People%27s Republic The Crimean People's Republic ( Crimean Tatar : Qırım Halq Cumhuriyeti ; Ukrainian : Кримська народна республіка , romanized : Kryms'ka narodna respublika ; Russian : Крымская народная республика , romanized : Krymskaya narodnaya respublika ) or Crimean Democratic Republic
132-563: The Republic of Crimea controlled by Russia . The flag was officially adopted on 24 September 1992 as the flag of the Republic of Crimea , readopted on 21 April 1999, then readopted on 4 June 2014 as the flag of the Republic of Crimea, annexed by the Russian Federation. The flag is a triband , striped horizontally in blue–white–red. The blue stripe is located at the top edge and is 1/6 of
154-697: The Russians . It was a traditional Crimean Tatar blue-colored banner, but it had the coat of arms of the Russian Empire's Taurida Governorate instead of the Crimean Tatar damğa. When the Crimean ASSR was established as part of the Russian SFSR on 18 October 1921, it received its own flag. The flag was red, and spelled in golden letters were the initials of the name of the republic: in Cyrillic letters КрССР , and in
176-780: The Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic on Crimean territory in early 1918 before the area was overrun by forces of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the German Empire . Some officials of the national government, such as Seydamet Qırımer, who managed to escape the Bolsheviks' terror sought political asylum in Kyiv and petitioned for military help from the advancing Ukrainian Army as well as the Central Powers. On 28 December
198-527: The Verkhovna Rada of Crimea (Crimean Parliament): Proposal 5, designed by V. Trusov and A. Malgin, was selected to be the flag of Crimea. The coat of arms of G. Jefetov and V. Jagunov was recommended for display on the flag. The final design for the flag was submitted in the second session of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea on 24 September 1992. The flag was only officially adopted on 21 April 1999. During
220-483: The local Arabic alphabet ق س ش ج ( Q.S.Ş.C. ). The lettering on the flag was changed to include КрАССР , and QrMSŞÇ in the Uniform Turkic Alphabet in 1929 in order to indicate Crimea as an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . The flag was amended yet again in 1938 with the lettering Cyrillic РСФСР at the top (for Russian SFSR) and КрАССР at the bottom. After Crimea was transformed into
242-627: The Black Sea Fleet and the city of Sevastopol. Any Muslim supporting military formations on the way to Crimea was stopped. This in turn triggered a protest from the All-Russian Muslim military council. By the end of January 1918, the Ukrainian government itself was forced to declare war on the Russian SFSR due to the advancement of the Red Guard forces of Moscow and Petrograd into Ukraine without explicit notification. The Bolsheviks briefly established
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#1732855809050264-509: The Crimean government created a United Crimean Headquarters on 19 December 1917, which had at its disposal two cavalry and one infantry regiment of Crimean Tatars, as well as some Ukrainian and Russian formations that amounted to some thousand people. Several armed incidents took place during January 1918. On 14 January 1918, the Bolsheviks captured Simferopol , where they managed to arrest former President of Crimea (Head of Directorate) Noman Çelebicihan , who had just resigned on 4 January 1918. He
286-673: The Kurultai as well as the Council of National Representatives. The Red Terror engulfed the peninsula. With Çelebicihan in the Reds' custody, another leader of the Crimean Tatars, Cafer Seydamet Qırımer , managed to escape to the Caucasus across continental Ukraine. Many Crimean military formations retreated to the mountains. The government of Ukraine blockaded Crimea while trying to re-establish control over
308-462: The Tatar nationalist groups began using a sky-blue flag as their symbol (the color of freedom). At the same time, the tamga symbol became widely used on the blue background. This became the flag of the short-lived Crimean People's Republic proclaimed in late 1917. When the communist Taurida Soviet Socialist Republic took control of Crimea in the beginning of 1918, the Tatar flag was abolished in favour of
330-487: The flag's width. The white stripe is the largest of the three and is 2/3 of the flag's width, and the red stripe is located at the bottom edge and is 1/6 of the flag's width. When flown vertically, the flag's blue stripe should be at the left, the white field in the centre, and the red stripe on the right. The flag's length is twice its width. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union , many designs were used by separatists from Crimea. The most commonly used design in public
352-514: The formation of the short-lived Crimean People's Republic of the Crimean Tatars in 1917, the flag used was a sky-blue flag with a golden tamğa , known as the Kök Bayraq "Blue Banner". A green colored flag was used for religious purposes, and the red colored flag was used as the Tatar's military flag. In 1991 the light blue version is now used as ethnic flag of the Crimean Tatars. In 1917,
374-805: The peninsula; the largest proportion of people living in the Crimea at the time were Russian (then comprising 42% of the population of the Crimea) or Ukrainian (11%). However, Crimean Tatars were for a while the dominant political and cultural force on the peninsula. Noman Çelebicihan was chosen as the first President of the nascent Republic. The Qurultay consisted of 76 delegates, four of whom were female ( Şefiqa Gaspıralı , Anife Bоdaninskaya , Ilhan Tohtar , Hatice Avcı ). The delegates were chosen from five counties: Yalta (24), Akmescit (19), Kefe (16), Kezlev (11), and Orkapy (6). Asan Sabri Ayvazov , long-time Crimean independence leader, journalist, and educator,
396-417: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kök Bayraq . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kök_Bayraq&oldid=1256954481 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
418-585: Was a self-declared state that existed from December 1917 to January 1918 in the Crimean Peninsula . The Republic was one of many short-lived states that declared independence following the 1917 Russian Revolution caused the collapse of the Russian Empire . The Crimean People's Republic was declared by the initiative of the Kurultai of Crimean Tatars , which stipulated the equality of all ethnicities within
440-406: Was a white flag with a blue outline map of Crimea, reminiscent of the flag of Cyprus . However, many Supreme Council of Crimea members had supported the version of a white flag with seven rainbow colors at the top. Crimea proclaimed self-government on 5 May 1992, but no official flag was chosen. The first proposal resembles the flag of Israel . On 5 June 1992, five proposals were submitted to
462-502: Was elected Chairman of the Kurultai. The Kurultai, in opposition to the Bolsheviks , published a "Crimean Tatar Basic Law", which convened an All-Crimean Constitutional Assembly , established a board of directors as a provisional government , and erected a Council of National Representatives as a provisional parliament. The board of directors and the Central Council of Ukraine mutually recognized each other. This attempt to build
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#1732855809050484-431: Was transferred back to Sevastopol and interned until 23 February 1918, when he was executed without trial. The body of Çelebicihan was thrown into the sea. On the initiative of Çelebicihan on 10 January 1918, the Kurultai created a special commission that conducted talks with the Bolsheviks to stop the armed conflict in Crimea. By the end of January 1918, the Bolsheviks had captured the whole of Crimea and dissolved both
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