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Mahra Sultanate of Qishn and Socotra (Protectorate of South Arabia, Yemen)

Mahra State

by Ivan Sache

Description of the flag
Flag of the Banu Afrar dynasty
Earlier (undated) flag of Socotra island

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Description of the flag

The flag shown on the postage stamps issued by the State is 1:2, horizontally divided green-white-red with a black crescent and star in the white stripe, slightly shifted to the hoist.Ivan Sache, after a scan of a stamp by Mike Oettle, 5 January 2002

According to Carr's Flags of the World([car61]), "The flag of the Mahri Sultanate ... does duty as the Sultan's Standard."
Santiago Dotor, 8 May 2003

Flag of the Banu Afrar dynasty

by Jaume Ollé

Ratio 2:3
Adopted: ?
Abolished: 1967

The Banu Afrar of Mahra (Quisn) and Socotra, used red flag with the name in white (Afrar government)

Source: The Flag Bulletin [tfb] (communicated by Harald Müller)
Jaume Ollé, 9 February 1997

Earlier (undated) flag of Socotra Island

by Jaume Ollé

Ratio 2:3
Adopted: 1886 ?
Abolished: ?

The text on the flag says Socotra.

Dov Gutterman, 20 May 2001

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