Imperial Standard of The Sultan
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Imperial Standard of the Ottoman Sultan
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Naval Standard of the Ottoman Sultan
The imperial standard displayed the sultan's tughra, often on a pink or bright red background. The religious colour of Islam is green, and many Ottoman flags were dark green (either simple green flags, or bearing the star and crescent in either white or yellow). Many royal banners picture the legendary Zulfikar sword. As of 1862 the flag of the sultan was green with seven thin, red, horizontal lines.
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