In the sixteenth and seventeenth century the Zanzibar was ruled as a part of the Portuguese Vice-kingdom of India from its capital Goa. This Indian vice-kingdom was a part of the kingdom of Portugal and so, the royal coat of arms of Zanzibar was the coat of arms of the Portuguese kings. This consisted of the well known socalled quinas, consisting of a cross of five blue escutcheons, each charged with five white besants in saltire, on a white field and surrounded by a red bordure charged with seven golden castles.Following the European tradition, each vice-roy had his own coat of arms. As there have been about seventy-seven governors and vice-kings of Portuguese India in the period of 1500 until 1698 we can count with about as many different vice-royal coats of arms in that period.As for the coat of arms of the Empire of Portugal, this seems tot have been parted per pale Gules and Argent, an armillary sphere Or, the earth Azure. In this coat of arms the armillary sphere is the symbol of the empire. It was developed from the personal badge of Dom Manuel I (1495-1521).
A flag for the Portuguese possessions on the East-African coast around Mombasa (Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, Pemba, Zanzibar and Kilwa) is documented by Diogo Homem on his map of the Indian Ocean, 1555. It consists of the quinas and the cross of the Order of Christ. (ill.) This flag seems to have been flown also from the mizzen of 15th and 16th century Portuguese caravels sailing around Cape of Good Hope to India.
THE OMANI ERA:After the conquest of Zanzibar by the Omanis in 1730, the flag of the Omani Yarubi dynasty was flown over the island. This flag is documented by a Dutch flag chart of about the middle of the 18th century called Nieuwe Tafel van alle de Zee-varende VLAGGE des Werelds, op nieuws van alle voorgaande Fouten gesuyverd. under the name of Pav: de Sangrian. It was a flag of 13 stripes red-white-green-yellow-red-green-yellow-red-green-yellow-re-white and green, the yellow stripes charged with green crescents.After the extinction of the Ya'rubi dynasty in 1744, the new Al-Busaid dynasty, to which all later Omani sultans belonged, flew their own flag which was red without any other symbol.
In 1876 it was suggested by A. Maximilian Gritzner that the 18th century flag of the Yarubi dynasty was re-adopted for independent Zanzibar but, as usual, he does not give his source.
H.H. al-Haj Sultan Sayyid Said bin Sultan, Sultan of Muscat and Oman 1806 - 1856 / Tughra of Sultan Sayyid Said bin Sultan,dated ١٢٣٦ = 1816 AD,H.H. Sultan Sayyid Majid bin Sa'id-1856 - 1870.
Tughra of Sultan Sayyid Majid bin Said,dated ١٢٨٣ = 1863 AD
The Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar (Wisam al-Kawkab al-Durri al-Zanzibari): founded by Sultan Sayyid Majid bin Said in 1865, modified and extended by Sultan Sayyid Barghash bin Said on 22nd December 1875, and modified again by Sultan Sayyid Khalifa II bin Harub on 5th August 1918. In base of the Tughra of a new type, the date of independence: ١٢٨١ = 1861 AD/BRITISH PROTECTORATE - 1890 - 1963.
It is said, that not long after the establishment of the British protectorate in 1890, a flag of 12 stripes appeared that, however, was soon abandoned for the all red flag of the Al-Bahaid dynasty.H.H. Sultan Sayyid Hamad bin Thuwaini - 1893 - 1896
Achievement of Sultan Sayyid Hamad bin Thuwaini.Shield with tughra, supported by two lions and two national flags etc. Dated ١٣١٤ = 1894 AD / Badge of the British Resident in Zanzibar,placed in the middle of the Union Jack./ H.H. Sultan Sayyid 'Ali II bin Hamud - 1902 - 1911 / Sultan Sayyid 'Ali II bin Hamud.On the back of his throne his smaller achievement.Tughra of Sultan Sayyid 'Ali II bin Hamud.INDEPENDENT ZANZIBAR SULTANATE-1963-1964
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