pre-Soviet Dagestan flags (Russia)

Last modified: 2021-07-24 by valentin poposki
Keywords: dagestan |
Links: FOTW homepage | search | disclaimer and copyright | write us | mirrors

• Avar flag (ca. 1745)
• Tarki (ca. 1831)
• Caucasus Imamate
• North Caucasian Federation (Russia, 1915-1925)
• Mountain Republic (1918-1919)
• North Caucasian Emirate (1918-1921)
• Daghestan
• Daghestan in the Soviet Union, 1920-1992
• Russia

Avar flag (ca. 1745)

image located by Ben Cahoon, 1 November 2020

This artistic rendering is clearly not the actual flag, but an interpretation based on a description, Flags of Avar People shows a black flag that maybe closer to the real one used.
Ben Cahoon, 28 September 2020

Tarki

image by Janis Lasmanis, 30 September 2020

Flag of Shamkhal Umalat III c.1831
According to Symbols of Dagestan, by Khalil-Bek Musayal, 1912. There are several “reconstructions” of various Tarki flags, including one of a nice tricolor, all of which seem to be unlikely and too modern.
Ben Cahoon, 30 September 2020

Caucasus Imamate

Flag of Imam Shamil c.1859

image by Janis Lasmanis, 30 September 2020

Flag of Imam Hamza Bek c.1834

image by Janis Lasmanis, 30 September 2020

All the imams were Avars from Dagestan, Imamate was not a Chechen polity. Even Chechen imam of 1834, Tashev, was a Kumyk from Dagestan. Association of Chechens with Imamate is post-1991 trend.
Ben Cahoon, 30 September 2020