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DescriptionTimurid.svg	TIMURID THREE ANNULETS SYMBOL: Three annulets symbol of the Timurids. See article [1] for precise discussion. Coinage of Timur with "three annulets" symbol (at the center of the reverse side). Shaykh abu-Ishaq (Kazirun) mint. Undated, circa AH 795-807 AD 1393-1405.( (2010). "On the Timurid flag". Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie 2: 144, 149, 159 Fig.5.)((in English) (14 May 2009) Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set, OUP USA, p. 426 ISBN: 978-0-19-530991-1. ""Coinage issued by the Timurid dynasty (r. 1370-1506) comprised various silver coins and several coppers, most often anonymous, although some coppers struck in the name of Timur 1370–1405; here called amīr) have a tamghā of three annulets prominently on the reverse."") FROM THE CATALAN ATLAS: In the Catalan Atlas (1375), only this flag is used for Eastern Mongol dominions, and it corresponds to the Mongol Yuan dynasty, not the Timurid Empire, which is not mentioned in the Catalan Atlas and was created too late (1370) to appear in the Catalan Atlas anyway. Eastern Mongol flags in the Catalan Atlas STUDY OF THE FLAG by Yuka Kadoi, Faculty Member, University of Vienna ( (2010). "On the Timurid flag". Beiträge zur islamischen Kunst und Archäologie 2: 148.): Timur umbrella detail with three-dots decorative motif Yuka Kadoi studied the possibility that the "brown or originally silver flag with three circles or balls" in the Catalan Atlas could be associated with the "earlier dominions of the Timurid Empire", specifically referencing a flag shown over the city is camull (Khamil) in Xinjiang. She also quotes Ruy González de Clavijo (d. 1412), a Spanish ambassador who visited the Timurid court in 1404, who describes a a relevant emblematic design adopted by Timur: "The special armorial bearing of Timur is the three circlets set thus to shape a triangle, which same it is said signifies that he Timur is lord of all three quarters of the world. This device Timur has ordered to be set on the coins that he has stuck, and on all buildings that he has erected (…) These three circlets which, as said, are like the letter O thrice repeated to form a triangle, further are the imprint of Timur’s seal, and again by his special order are added so as to be seen patent on all the coins stuck by those princes who are become tributary to his government." She also notes the existence of Timur umbrella detail with three-dots decorative motif. Some contemporary coins from Samarkand also have the three dots as a motif. [2] Beyond this, scant confirmation. The flag referenced by Kadoi would actually be this one: , the flag with the three red crescent moons which is seen all over eastern Asian in the Catalan Atlas, and which is simply the flag of the Empire of the Great Khan (Yuan China) ((in English) (28 October 2013) The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto, University of Toronto Press, p. 32 ISBN: 978-1-4426-6667-2. )
Date	21 March 2007
Source	File:Timurid.png (originally en:Image:Timurid.png)
Author	User:Stannered
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Other versions	png version of the same symbol Flag of Cathay (Empire of the Great Khan, i.e. Yuan China) according to the Catalan Atlas

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current	18:24, 7 May 2023	1,399 × 747 (132 KB)	Mdaniels5757	Reverted to version as of 18:22, 6 May 2023 (UTC) COM:OVERWRITE
	23:47, 6 May 2023	900 × 600 (4 KB)	Nerdqwertyoof	Reason: I had to avoid confusion with File:Three_annulets_symbol_of_the_Timurid_Empire.png.
	18:22, 6 May 2023	1,399 × 747 (132 KB)	NorthTension	Reverted to version as of 08:57, 24 April 2023 (UTC) unexplained revert
	17:18, 6 May 2023	900 × 600 (4 KB)	Nerdqwertyoof	This one, not just grey.
	08:57, 24 April 2023	1,399 × 747 (132 KB)	Tarataraq	Reverted to version as of 00:36, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
	08:44, 24 April 2023	900 × 600 (4 KB)	Tarataraq	Reverted to version as of 13:37, 16 April 2023 (UTC) Revert to the original flag.
	00:36, 18 April 2023	1,399 × 747 (132 KB)	NorthTension	Reverted to version as of 15:05, 2 April 2023 (UTC) vandalism
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