Sunday, May 1, 2016

Kyrgyzstan Flag History

By Mell Lindon


Kyrgyzstan, also known as the Kyrgyz Republic, is located in northern East Asia. Kyrgyz history can be traced at least to the 1st-century BCE. The probable abodes of the early Kyrgyz were in the upper Yenisey River valley of central Siberia, and the Tashtyk culture, an amalgam of Asiatic and European peoples, may have been theirs. Chinese and Muslim sources of the 7thâ€"12th centuries BCE describe the Kyrgyz as red-haired with fair complexion and green (blue) eyes.

The native Kyrgyz are a Turkic people who first settled in the Tien Shan mountains. They were traditionally pastoral nomads. Due to extensive Russian colonization in the 1900s, Russian settlers were given much of the best agricultural land. This led to an unsuccessful and disastrous revolt by the Kyrgyz people in 1916.

Kyrgyzstan became part of the Soviet Federated Socialist Republic in 1924 and was made an autonomous republic in 1926. It became a constituent republic of the USSR in 1936. Kyrgyzstan proclaimed its independence from the Soviet Union on Aug. 31, 1991.

The National flag of Kyrgyzstan was approved by Jogorku Kengesh on the 3rd of March, 1992 and represents a red cloth in the centre of which around the solar disk with forty uniformly diverging rays of golden colour are placed. Inside the solar disk, there is a red Tunduk of Kyrgyz yurt. The banner’s width is three-fifths of its length. The diameter of the radiant disk is three-fifths of the width of the flag. The ratio of the sun’s diameter to radiant disks is 3 to 5.The Tunduk’s diameter is half the diameter of the radiant disk.

The circle of the sun is formalized depiction of the tündük. The tündük is the wooden crown or pinnacle of a yurt. The yurt is a traditional movable dwelling of the nomadic clans who occupied the steppes of Central Asia. The tündük in the flag of Kyrgyzstan represents the family home or in another sense, the universe for the Kyrgyz people. The tündük is had various and prominent depictions and representations in the architecture of Kyrgyzstan.

Tunduk embodies a paternal house, which also to wider extent represents the world as the universe and cohesion of the peoples living in the republic. The Flag Company Inc specialized in flag designs offered a special edition of decals and flags to memorize the history of Kyrgyzstan Flag for the future.




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