Azerbaijan

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 Adopted 5 February 1991. The main features of the flag are based on the flag introduced in autumn 1917 and used until the occupation of the country by the Red Army in 1920. The colours represent the Turkic world (blue), contemporary life (red) and the Islamic religion (green). The crescent and star is the symbol of Islam. The eight points of the star stand for the Turkic peoples: Azerbaijani, Ottoman, Jagatay, Tatar, Kazakh, Kipchak, Seljuk and Turkoman.