The today's flag of Kyrgyzstan was introduced on 3rd of March in 1992. It shows in the middle of a red bunting a golden sun with forty points, in which is depicted the roof of a native round tent – a so named Tjundjuk. The sun symbolizes the warm summers in the Kyrgyz steppe. The roof of a native round tent stands for hospitality and honesty, and should also remember the nomad herdsman live of the rural population in the gone centuries. The two colors of the flag, the red and the yellow, are specified with Pantone 1788 and 100% yellow.
since 1994, Coat of arms of Kyrgyzstan, Source: А. Абдраев (A. Abdraev), С. Дубанаев (S. Dubanaev) 1994. Standardized version:Nurbek Nasyranbekov Nargiza Kulataeva, Kanat Karapashov, Marcel Sheishenov(2016). [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons
1956–1994, Coat of arms of the Kyrgyz Socialistic Soviet Republic, Source:
TheSign 1998 [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
The today's coat of arms of the state was introduced on 14th of January in 1994. It is a single-coloured blue disk, which shows in the foreground a silvery hawk with outspread wings. In the background a lake and the Back Alaijan Range (Ille Ala Toosu) with the highest mountain of the country, the Pik Lenin (7.134 m). Behind a glowing, rising, golden sun. All this is surrounded by wheat ears and cotton blossoms, as well as the name of the state in cyrillic fonts.
ca. 840 · settle of the Kyrgyzians in the Empire of the Uyghurs
10th cent. · rule of the Karakhanides
1219 · conquered and begin of the rule by the Mongols under Dshingis Khan
1227–1280 · the region of the today's Kazakhstan belongs to the Empire of the Tshagatai, son of Dshingis Khan
14th cent. · with the decay of the Mongolian empires comes into being in the region of the today's Kyrghyztan the Khanate of Mogolistan, later to the Kashgarian Empire
1862 · foundation of Pishpek as a Russian colonist city
1865 · formation of the General Government of Turkestan, in this way annexion to Russia
1918 · establishment of the Soviet Dictatorship, foundation of the Turkestanian Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic (within Soviet Russia – Russian Socialistic Federative Soviet Republic) on the territory of the today's states Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan
October 1924 · dissolution of the Turkestanian Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic, formation of the Kara-Kyrgyz Autonomous District (Autonomous Oblast), within Soviet Russia
25th of May 1925 · rename in Kyrgyz Autonomous District (Autonomous Oblast)
1st of February 1926 · foundation of the Kyrgyz Autonomous Socialistic Soviet Republic (within Soviet Russia), rename of Pishpek in Frunse
1935 · elevation to the Kyrgyz Socialistic Soviet Republic (as part of the Soviet Union)
31st of August 1991 · independence, rename of Frunse in Bishkek
1993 · new constitution
2010 · armed fights between Kyrgyzians and Uzbeks
2010 · tumultuous change of government, new constitution
2021 · the amendments to the 2010 constitution are reversed
The name of the country goes back to the Kyrgyz nation, which is living here. The Kyrgyz are convinced that the name of their people comes from the word "kirkkyz", which means "forty", and thus they are the descendants of 40 tribes.
