Flags of Turkic Hordes


Flag of the Great Hunnic Empire

Great Hunnic Empire

This was the flag of the Great Hunnic Empire, a horde encompassing a huge amount of land. Its flag shows a yellow dragon with an orange field.

Data

Proportions:
2" x 3"

Date Used:
204 BC-AD 216

Flag of the European Huns

Flag of the European Hunnic Empire

The European Hunnic Empire was the autonomous segment of the Huns concentrated in Europe. Its flag depicts a yellow eagle on a white field.

Data

Proportions:
3" x 4"

Date Used:
375-469

Flag of the Empire of the White Huns

White Hun Empire

The flag above is attributed to the White Hunnic Empire, another Hunnic horde encompassing Afghanistan, part of Turkestan, and Northern India. The design shows 3 yellow stars aligned vertically on the top left corner with a white field.

Data

Proportions:
16" x 9"

Date Used:
420-552

Flag of the The Göktürk Horde

Flag of the Gokturks

The Göktürk Horde was a horde in the Mongolian steppes, which lasted for about 200 years before losing the remote valleys they controlled. The symbol they use is a wolf; now commonly used by Pan-Turkic nationalists.

Data

Proportions:
2" x 3"

Date Used:
552-745

Flag of the Avar Khaganate

Flag of the Avars

The flag above was the one normally used for the Avar Khaganate, in what is now today known as the Greater Hungarian region. It displays a man shooting an arrow while riding a horse, on a green field.

Data

Proportions:
3" x 5"

Date Used:
565-835

Flag of the Khazar Empire

Khazars

The Khazars controlled an area in about the area of the Kievan Rus' Principalities, encompassing the area between Hungary, Bessarabia, and the Volga River. Their flag displays a blue field with an unidentified white device in canton and five white stars arranged in a semitriangular shape.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
651-983

Flag of the Karakhanid Khanate

Karakhanids

The flag above was that of the Karakhanid Khanate, who controlled a portion of the steppes in Central Asia for about 200 years. The flag has a yellow-orange field with an unindentified white device.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
840–1212

Flag of the Golden Horde

Golden Horde

The Golden Horde was a vast khanate spanning most of the Mongol Empire's European and Western Asian possessions. Their flag had a sand-yellow field with a red crescent pointing upwards, placed above a grey disk charged with a black symbol.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
1240s–1502

Flag of the Uyghur Khaganate

Uyghur Khaganate

The flag above is attributed to the Uyghur Khaganate, a vast empire stretching through most of Eastern Siberia and Northern Mongolia. The flag has a yellow-orange field with two yellow face masks shown on it.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
744–840

Flag of the Aq Qoyunlu Confederation

Aq Qoyunlu

Aq Qoyunlu was a confederation of Turkic states in western Persia and eastern Anatolia. The flag above is attributed to them.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
1378–1501

Flag of the Qara Qoyunlu

Qara Qoyunlu

Qara Qoyunlu was a Muslim Oghuz Turkic monarchy in Eastern Anatolia lasting a century, with the flag identified above as being theirs.

Data

Proportions:
9" x 16"

Date Used:
1374-1468


Sources

Global Security - The 16 Great Turkish Empires
Global Security - Khazar Empire
Global Security - European Hunnic Empire
CRW Flags - The 16 Great Turkish Empires
Turkic Flags - Flags of Turkic States
Wikipedia - Uyghur Khaganate
Wikipedia - Aq Qoyunlu
Wikipedia - Qara Qoyunlu