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Flag of Kuwait "علم الكويت"

The flag of Kuwait (Arabic: علم الكويت) was adopted on September 7, 1961, and officially hoisted November 24, 1961. Before 1961, the flag of Kuwait was red and white, like those of other Persian Gulf states at the time, with the field being red and words or charges being written in white. It is the only flag in the world featuring an acute trapezium.

When the Utub settled in Kuwait, Kuwaiti ships were flying a flag common on the western coast of the Persian Gulf, a red flag added to it near the mast a serrated white ribbon similar to the current Bahrain flag and was called in the name of the Sulaimi flag. This flag was raised in the rule of Sheikh Sabah I bin Jaber in 1752 to 1871.

During the period of Ottoman rule in Kuwait, the Ottoman flag, red with a white crescent and star, was used. This flag was retained after the country became a British protectorate in the Anglo-Kuwaiti Agreement of 1899.

In 1903, Lord Curzon, the British Viceroy and Governor-General of India visited Kuwait, and Sheikh Mubarak Al-Sabah received him and raised a red flag with white words, توكلنا على الله (We trust in God) in Arabic writing. This avoided the diplomatic faux pax, given Kuwait was under British protection, of raising the Ottoman flag.

Two different flag designs were proposed but not adopted in the period after this. The first proposal in 1906, a red flag with white Western letters spelling (KOWEIT) and the second in 1913, the Ottoman flag but the word كويت (Kuwait) in Arabic writing as a canton.[1][2]

The Ottoman flag kept being used until the First World War, when friendly-fire incidents with the British in 1914 during the Mesopotamian campaign around the river Shatt al-Arab occurred due to Kuwait and the enemy Ottomans both using the same flag. Because of this Kuwait adopted a new flag, red with كويت (Kuwait) in Arabic writing.[3][1][2] This flag was in use until 1921, when Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah added the Shahada to the flag.[4][1][2] This version was in use until 1940, when he also added a stylized falcons claw to the flag.[1][2] These flags were also depicted on the Emblems of Kuwait. The red flag remained the national flag of Kuwait until the adoption of the current one in September 1961. The present flag is in the Pan-Arab colours, but each colour is also significant in its own right.
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Kuwaiti National Anthem:
(ENG)
My homeland Kuwait, you have prospered to glory,
And on your forehead is an omen of fortune.

Chorus:
My homeland Kuwait, you have prospered to glory,
And on your forehead is an omen of fortune.
My homeland Kuwait, my homeland Kuwait,
My homeland Kuwait, you have prospered to glory.

I
Oh cradle of forefathers, they wrote
A book of eternity, then the meteors called
God is the greatest, indeed Arabs
Ascended as the planets of paradise of perpetuity.

Chorus

II
Blessed be my homeland Kuwait, for us
It was peaceful, and you lived on the extent of the homeland
Kept free in your protection to build
A palace of life with the most generous arms.

Chorus

III
Let us protect, oh my homeland, and we witnessed
The revealing of the guidance and the truth, our pioneer,
And our Amir is the powerful, our leader,
The master of my protection, the truthful of the promise.

(ABC)
وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ سَلِمْتَ لِلْمَجْدِ
وَعَلٰى جَبِيْنِكَ طَالِعُ السَّعْدِ

جوقة:
وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ سَلِمْتَ لِلْمَجْدِ
وَعَلٰى جَبِيْنِكَ طَالِعُ السَّعْدِ
وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ
وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ سَلِمْتَ لِلْمَجْدِ

١
يَا مَهْدَ آبَاءِ الْأُوْلٰى كَتَبُوْا
سِفْرَ الْخُلُوْدِ فَنَادَتِ الشُّهُبُ
اَللّٰهُ أَكْبَرُ إِنَّهُمْ عَرَبُ
طَلَعَتْ كَوَاكِبُ جَنَّةِ الْخُلْدِ

جوقة

۲
بُوْرِكْتَ يَا وَطَنِي الْكُوَيْتَ لَنَا
سَكَنًا وَعِشْتَ عَلِى الْمَدٰى وَطَنَا
يَفْدِيْكَ حُرٌّ فِيْ حِمَاكَ بَنٰى
صَرْحَ الْحَيَاةِ بِأَكْرَمِ الْأَيْدِيْ

جوقة

٣
نَحْمِيْكَ يَا وَطَنِيْ وَشَاهِدُنَا
شَرْعُ الْهُدٰى وَالْحَقُّ رَائِدُنَا
وَأَمِيْرُنَا لِلْعِزِّ قَائِدُنَا
رَبُّ الْحَمِيَّةِ صَادِقُ الْوَعْدِ

جوقة


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