State Flag Day (Azerbaijan)
The Day of the State Flag of Azerbaijan () is a national holiday in Azerbaijan that is celebrated annually on November 9. State Flag Day was established in 2009 by order of President Ilham Aliyev to commemorate the anniversary of adoption of "The Tricolour Flag" () as the flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in 1918. It has been celebrated as a non-working public holiday ever since. Commemorations. 2020 war celebrations. The 2020 celebrations of the holiday were held in connection with the Azerbaijani victory in the Battle of Shusha, in which the Azerbaijani Army recaptured of  the city of Shusha during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war. Azerbaijani ambassador to Pakistan Ali Alizadaon tweeted a picture of the flags of Azerbaijan, Turkey and Pakistan, saying that National Flag Day was "incomplete" without the flags of those two countries, as a sign of respect for the involvement of those two countries in the war. Since 2020, the day before State Flag Day has been commemorated as Victory Day.