Great Britain compelled a large number of the little Arab states on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf to sign the alleged "General Treaty" of January 8, 1820. These states, which agreed to refrain from armed clash, were subsequently referred to as Trucial Oman, or the Trucial Coast. To their plain red flag the General Treaty required that they include a white border as a symbol of their peaceful intents and their relationship with Britain. In 1966, six years after the development of the Trucial States Council, just two of the countries (Ash-Shāriqah and Raʾs al-Khaymah) actually used the white-bordered red flag. Three states—ʿAjmān, Dubayy, and Umm al-Qaywayn—had reduced the border to a white vertical stripe at the derrick, and the latter had additionally incorporated a white star and crescent in the center of the red. Abu Dhabi had added a white canton to its red flag. Just Al-Fujayrah, which never signed the General Treaty, actually flew a flag of plain red.
On December 2, 1971, six of these states united to shape the United Arab Emirates. (The seventh state, Raʾs al-Khaymah, joined the new country on February 11, 1972.) The new flag took its four tones from the Arab Revolt Flag of 1917. No explanation was given of the shading symbolism, yet in other national flags derived from the same source the tones initially recalled those used by Arab dynasties of the past. Collectively they are referred to in a thirteenth century poem by Ṣafī promotion Dīn al-Ḥilli that speaks of green Arab fields defended in black battles by the crimson blades of Arabs whose deeds are pure white.
The United Arab Emirates Country Flag is represented by four stripes. Three horizontal stripes of equal extents are colored green, white and black start to finish. A fourth stripe of red embellishes the derrick, or left side of the flag, being of a comparative width as the horizontal stripes. The Flag was formally adopted in 1971. Each tone represents one or more specific events or attributes relating to the seven Emirates that make up the Union. Black is meant to represent the violent medieval history of the region, and today has additionally taken on a meaning related to crude oil and it's production. The green stripe references the Fatimids Caliphate which occurred in the several hundred years encompassing the turn of the main Millennium. It has come to likewise represent fertility and vegetation in the region. Red is meant to represent the Ottomam Empire, while the white stripe may reference the ideals of peace and honesty. The United Arab Emirates Country Flag is designated to be proportioned in a proportion of 1:2, height to length, respectively.
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