Banner o Qatar

The banner o Qatar (Arabic: علم قطر‎) haes a proportion o 11:28. It is maroon color wi a broad white serrated baund (nine white pynts) on the hoist side.

The meanin o Qatar’s banner is:

The white colour reflects the internaitionally recognised seembol o peace
The maroon colour symbolises the bluid shed durin the several wars Qatar haed unnergane, parteecularly in the seicont hauf o the 19t century.
The nine-pynt serratit line indicates that Qatar is the 9t member o the "reconciled Emirates" o the Persian Gulf in the wake o concludin the Qatari-Breetish treaty in 1916.

It is verra seemilar tae the banner o the neighbourin kintra o Bahrain, that haes fewer pynts, a 3:5 proportion, an a reid colour instead o purpie. A common explanation o the differences atween the twa, is tae distinguish them.^[1] A popular but fanciful tale referrin tae the maroon colour an the similarity tae the reid Bahrain banner, is that purpie is whit becoms o reid fading in the Gulf sun.^[2]. The legend goes that Qatar's banner uised tae be reid, an that a new kynd o dye wis uised for the oreeginal banners. But, efter bein left in the sun, the colour chynged tae maroon, that wis then regardit tae be a mair bonnie colour (bi coincidence). That is why this shade o maroon is cried "Qatar Red".

Qatar's emir, lik Kuwait's, is no kent tae hae a personal staundart, nor daes ony ither member o the ryal faimily.

History

It is assumed that, in 1855, Shaikh jasim ibn Muhammad Al Thani awready uised a banner wi seemilar pattern an the colour reid an white. The banner wis offeecially adoptit on Julie 9, 1971, awtho a nearly identical banner (ae differin in proportion) haed been uised syne 1949.