Though associated with the Sassanid Persians and with Mithradates VI Eupator ( who for a time incorporated the city into his empire ), by the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

Since the crescent moon had been adopted as the dynastic ( and ultimately national ) emblem of the Ottoman sultans, who were the new sovereigns of Rum, the Safavids of Iran, needing to have a dynastic and national emblem of their own, chose the Lion and Sun motif.

It continues to display the crescent and four stars, which is a motif that has been in use in slightly various forms since 1975 during the independence movement.

Ustinova associates the star and crescent motif attested in a number of finds in the Bosporan Kingdom ( which date from the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD ) with the cult of Mithras, and indicates the star and the crescent together constituted the emblem of Pontus and its kings, asserting that it was introduced to the Bosporus by Mithradates and his successors, where it is attested on coins, locally produced jewelry and other objects.

A combined star and crescent motif is commonly found on later coins minted by the Sassanids.

By the late Hellenistic or early Roman period, the star and crescent motif had been associated to some degree with Byzantium.

While Burger King has updated its logo to the " blue crescent " design in all other markets from 1999, the Hungry Jack's logo is still based on the previous 1996 revised Burger King bun-halves logo, employing the simpler bun-and-filling motif.

A remarkable feature of the coins is a shift from a pagan motif with disc and crescent to a design with a cross.

The current logo is similar, but does not include the crescent motif, which Media General has used on many of its stations ; the " NewsChannel " portion was retained until the station rebranded to simply " 7 On Your Side " in 2011.

The pavement was altered to incorporate a larger five pointed star motif as used in the flag of Turkey, to match the existing wall in the form of the crescent moon.

The practice in the time of Gamaliel II ( c. 100 CE ) was for witnesses to select the appearance of the moon from a collection of drawings that depicted the crescent in a variety of orientations, only a few of which could be valid in any given month.

However, the spring at what would become Jericho was a popular camping ground for Natufian hunter-gatherer groups, who left a scattering of crescent microlith tools behind them.

It was completed in 1855, with Sussex Square larger than London's Grosvenor Square and at the time the biggest housing crescent in Britain.

The original meaning of the phrase new moon was the first visible crescent of the Moon, after conjunction with the Sun.

" The crescent moon pendant is arguably the most iconic of all Nicks's jewelry – the original was bought while she was in England on tour with Fleetwood Mac during the Tusk era.

The region was so named because of its rich soil and crescent shape.

Albert Camus was a Pied-Noir ( black foot ) – a Frenchman born in the Maghreb, the northernmost crescent of Mediterranean Africa then the heart of France's African colonies.

An apocryphal story claims that King Louis XVI ( an amateur locksmith ) recommended that a triangular blade with a beveled edge be used instead of a crescent blade, but it was Schmidt who suggested placing a straight blade at a 45 degree angle.

The Conklin crescent filler, introduced c. 1901, was one of the first mass-produced self-filling pen designs.

The cross on top of the Dome of the Rock was replaced by a golden crescent, and a wooden screen was placed around the rock below.

The most obvious change was a new logo, replacing the " crescent " with a new " greater than " logo, with the Global wordmark in a new font, in use as of February 5, 2006 ( coinciding with Global's broadcast of Super Bowl XL ).

The crescent, which had been used as a common design element in many Canwest logos, was subsequently removed from other properties owned or sponsored by the company.

As the crescent moon strongly resembles the curved beak of the ibis, this separate deity was named Djehuty ( i. e. Thoth ), meaning ibis.

In art, Thoth was usually depicted with the head of an ibis, deriving from his name, and the curve of the ibis ' beak, which resembles the crescent moon.

Sometimes, he was depicted as a baboon holding up a crescent moon, as the baboon was seen as a nocturnal, and intelligent, creature.

On Jan. 20, while the craft was still in daylight, the TV camera clearly saw two laser beams aimed at it from the night side of the crescent Earth, one from Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona, and the other at Table Mountain at Wrightwood, California.

On the Nones, she was honored as Juno Covella, Juno of the crescent moon.

A county was eventually drawn with the crescent of the Kiamichi River valley forming its commercial heart, and it was to be called Pushmataha County, Sequoyah.

This choice of completion for the triad should have proved popular, but because the isheru, the sacred lake outside Mut's ancient temple in Karnak at Thebes, was the shape of a crescent moon, Khonsu, the moon god eventually replaced Menthu as Mut's adopted son.

It was said that when Khonsu caused the crescent moon to shine, women conceived, cattle became fertile, and all nostrils and every throat was filled with fresh air.

The crescent kick, also referred to as a ' swing ' kick, has some similarities to a hook kick, and is sometimes practised as an off-target front snap kick.

The proposed design has also attracted critics who see Islamic symbolism in the crescent design.

An adjustable spanner may also be called a shifting spanner, shifting adjustable, shifter, fit-all, crescent wrench ( incorrect usage-see Famous brands section ), adjustable angle-head wrench or Bahco ( see below ).

While these prior instruments usually crushed the neck or used blunt force to take off a head, devices also usually used a crescent blade and a lunette ( a hinged two part yoke to immobilize the victim's neck ).

It is designed as a Tibetan style chorten, also called as the Jangchup Chorten, patterned on the design of a classical stupa, with a pyramidal pillar crowned by a crescent of Moon and Sun.

During Aceh War, Aceh warriors also used red and white battle flag, with the image of sword, star and crescent, sun, and also part of Quranic script.

The direction in which the " horns " ( the points at the intersection of the two arcs ) face indicates whether a crescent is waxing ( also young, or increasing ) or waning ( also old, or decreasing ).

The crescent and star also appears on pre-Islamic coins of South Arabia.

The crescent moon is also a symbol associated with the Indian / Hindu iconography, specifically Within Puranic and Tantric Hinduism.

The crescent is also used as a heraldic symbol.

The crescent symbol is also used to represent the moon in astronomy and astrology, and to represent silver ( the metal associated with the moon ) in alchemy, where, by inference, it can also be used to represent qualities that silver possesses.

* the Rimland ( analogous to Mackinder's " inner or marginal crescent " also an intermediate region, lying between the Heartland and the marginal sea powers ); and

As with the English name, the scientific name also refers to the male's obvious white neck crescent, being derived from the Latin words turdus, " thrush ", and torque, " torc " ( neck ring ).

The flag of Malaysia, also known as the Jalur Gemilang ( Malay for " Stripes of Glory "), comprises a field of 14 alternating red and white stripes along the fly and a blue canton bearing a crescent and a 14-point star known as the Bintang Persekutuan ( Federal Star ).

It differs from Ottoman flag by size and direction of crescent, but also it is swallow-shaped, like some West-European jacks and ensigns.

Burton also drew up designs for a grand crescent of terraced houses on the hill above the spa, which was, however, never built.

It is also similar to the flags of Singapore ( which has a crescent and five stars in the top left ), Poland and the German state of Thuringia ( the order of the colours is reversed on the latter two ).

Contained on the emblem is the crescent that is also found on the flag of Algeria, and is a symbol of Islam.

There was also a white crescent and star in one corner indicating the aspirations of people of those years.

The tower also acts as the Islamic falak observatory to observe the crescent moon which marks the beginning of Muslim month of Ramadhan, Syawal, and Zulhijjah, to celebrate fasting month of Ramadhan, Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Aidiladha.

This flag, which had a five-pointed star and crescent, also formed the basis of the present-day flag of the Republic of Turkey.