[QUOTE=VMRO;176090]Green depicts Islam.[/QUOTE]

Well aware but in this context, Islam would be referring to the Ottoman Empire. As far as the Macedonian peasant was concerned, Islam was merely the religion of the "Turks" and as the colour was used by the administration, it was therefore also the colour of the "Turks"

[QUOTE=Liberator of Makedonija;176101]Well aware but in this context, Islam would be referring to the Ottoman Empire. As far as the Macedonian peasant was concerned, Islam was merely the religion of the "Turks" and as the colour was used by the administration, it was therefore also the colour of the "Turks"[/QUOTE]

Correct, At that time religion was still a factor to describe the different segments of the empire.

Islam was the Ottoman Empire at that time, they had most of the important holy sites in the middle East still in 1900.

[IMG]https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Osmanli-nisani.svg/800px-Osmanli-nisani.svg.png[/IMG]

the coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire featured a green flag at left (representing the Caliphate) and red flag at right (representing the Sultanate)

Flag of the Kumanovo četa

[IMG]https://vgy.me/4ASSzf.png[/IMG]

Flag of the Kratovo četa

[IMG]https://vgy.me/GlLUIF.png[/IMG]

Another flag from the Ohrid četa

[IMG]https://vgy.me/fNBPUz.png[/IMG]

Flag of the Demi Hisar četa

[IMG]https://vgy.me/mf82Oj.png[/IMG]

Flag used during the Melnik Uprising, later used in Ilinden

[IMG]https://vgy.me/Pam9VW.jpg[/IMG]

Flag used during the Neguš Uprising

[IMG]https://vgy.me/nbwXIz.jpg[/IMG]

Flag of the VMRO (Autonomist)

[IMG]https://vgy.me/he3S8v.png[/IMG]

Mijak flag from the 15th century

[IMG]https://vgy.me/yeuDhR.jpg[/IMG]

MPO banner from 1927

[IMG]https://vgy.me/qq7QC8.jpg[/IMG]

Proposed flag for the Kruševo Republic

[IMG]https://vgy.me/BySNbk.gif[/IMG]

What does the last flag say?

[QUOTE=maco2envy;176539]What does the last flag say?[/QUOTE]

20 July. The date of the Ilinden Uprising in the old calender.

Flag of the Gemidžite. Is anyone able to translate? This one is lost on me.

[IMG]https://vgy.me/qUeRUo.png[/IMG]

[QUOTE=Liberator of Makedonija;176574]Flag of the Gemidžite. Is anyone able to translate? This one is lost on me.

[IMG]https://vgy.me/qUeRUo.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I believe the closest translation is, "WE ARE CLINGING FOR MACEDONIA"

Pavel Shatev was known to have said the above.

To rexamine the potential forgery in some VMRO banners, let's bring up one of the Ohrid ones again.

Here's just one of the images used by the Bulgarians today:

[IMG]https://vgy.me/k7NJTB.jpg[/IMG]

And here's a poster made in [B]Sofia[/B] in the 1930s, depicting the same image in the background but clearly with no Bulgarian tricolour:

[IMG]https://vgy.me/VG0odu.jpg[/IMG]

Emblem of the 'Union of Macedonian Youth Organisations'

[IMG]https://vgy.me/ak5kRl.jpg[/IMG]

Flag from the 'Macedonian Youth Organisation' in Ruse c. 1925

[IMG]https://vgy.me/wtcI9Y.jpg[/IMG]

Another flag from the Kumanovo četa

[IMG]https://vgy.me/iGSf7v.jpg[/IMG]

Seal of the Plovdiv branch of the 'Macedonian Women's Union'

[IMG]https://vgy.me/WKYxEK.jpg[/IMG]