The list of flags of Libya
This is a List of Flags used in Libya . for more information about the national flag, see the Flag of Libya
Flag
Date
Use
Description
2011–present
National Flag of Libya
A horizontal triband of red, black (double width) and green; charged with a white crescent and five-pointed star centred on the black stripe.[ 1] </ref>[ 2] [ 3] [ 4]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
Current
2011–present
Naval Jack of Libya[ 5]
a light blue field with the libyan tricolour in the canton and defaced with a vertical White anchor.
2014 –present
Flag of the Libyan National Army [ 6]
a red field with the golden emblem in the center.
2011–present
Flag of the Libyan Army [ 7]
a red field with the emblem in the center.
2011–present
Flag of the Libyan Navy [ 8]
a blue field with the emblem in the center.
2011–present
Flag of the Libyan Air Force [ 9]
a cyan field with the emblem in the center.
Flag of the Libyan Air Defense Forces[ 10]
a diagonally divided field. the upper triangle is blue and the lower triangle is brown and with the emblem in the center.
2014 –present
Flag of the Libyan National Army (Variant)
a white field with the emblem in the center.
Former
1977–2011
Naval Jack of Libya
a light blue field with the libyan green banner in the canton and defaced with a vertical White anchor
Standards of the head of state [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
Former
1947–1951
Presidential standard of Vincent Auriol
A vertical tricolour of blue, white, and red (proportions 1:1) with the golden "VA".
1943–1951
The Royal Standard of the United Kingdom
A banner of the Queen's Arms, the Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom .
1927–1943
Standard of the Head of Government and Duce of Fascism
A blue flag with a yellow line and a yellow fasces in the middle.
1922–1934
Royal Flag of the Kingdom of Egypt
A green field with a white crescent containing three five-pointed white stars and with the royal crown added in the upper-left corner.
1911–1943
Royal Standard of the King of Italy
A blue flag with a eagle with crown and four crown at corners.
1890–1911
Imperial standard of the Ottoman sultan
A Red field with the sultan 's tughra in the center
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1949–1951
Flag of the Emirate of Cyrenaica
A black field with a white crescent moon and a 5 pointed star.
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1844–1911
Flag of the Ottoman Empire
A red field with a white crescent moon and a five-pointed star.
1793–1844
Flag of The Ottoman Empire
A red field with a white crescent moon and an eight-pointed star.
1517–1793
Flag of the Ottoman Empire
A red field with a green disc in the center with three golden crescent moons inside the disc.
Flags of Tripolitania
1864–1911
Flag of Ottoman Tripolitania
A green Field with 3 white crescent moons.
1800–1864
Flag of The Ottoman Tripolitania
A 7 horizontal striped flag. 3 red, 2 green and 2 white.
1771–1800
Flag of Ottoman Tripolitania
A 7 horizontal striped flag. 3 red, 2 green and 2 white (big).
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1530–1551
Flag of the Knights Hospitaller (Hospitaller Tripoli)
Red rectangular flag quartered by a white cross.
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1516–1530
Flag of Habsburg Spain (Spanish Tripoli)
A red saltire resembling two crossed, roughly-pruned (knotted) branches, on a white field.
1510–1516
Flag of Crown of Castile (Spanish Tripoli)
A Quartered Flag with The arms of Castile (the yellow castle) and the arms of León (the purple lion).
Flag
Date
Use
Description
1401–1510
Flag of the Hafsid Sultanate of Tunis
A yellow field with a white crescent moon and a five-pointed star.
1300–1327
Flag of the Hafsid Sultanate of Tunis
A Red Field with a White Crescent Moon and 3 sestiere on the fly.
Mamluk and Ayyubid rule [ edit ]
Flag
Date
Use
Description
Mamluk Era
1260–1517
Flag of the Mamluk Sultanate
A Golden Swallowtailed Field with a White Crescent Moon.
1260–1517
Flag of the Mamluk Sultanate
A Golden Field with a black disc containing a white lion in the center.
Ayyubid Era
1171–1260
Flag of the Ayyubid dynasty
A Simple Golden Field
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^ "Air Defence, Libya" . www.fotw.info . Retrieved 2022-03-11 .
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^ [English translation based on The Libyan Flag & The National Anthem, a booklet issued by the Ministry of Information and Guidance of the Kingdom of Libya, cited after Jos Poels at FOTW, 27 January 1997]
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