Czech Republic

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by Mark Sensen

• The President's flag
• The Arms

• Czechoslovakia (also for historical Czech flags)
• Slovakia

From January,1 1993 is a new state at the map of Europe - Czech Republic. Althought a state flag is the same as flag of Czech and Slovak Federative Republic, president of the Czech republic (Mr. Vaclav Havel) has a new flag. In the centre is a large Coat of Arms of Czech Republic surrounded with a limetree branches. On the scroll is written PRAVDA VITEZI ("Truth is victorious").

Petr Exner 19-JUN-1995

The Arms

HERALDRY OF THE ROYAL FAMILIES OF EUROPE, by Jiri Louda and Michael Maclagan, Clarkson Potter, New York, 1981, shows the traditional arms of the areas: Bohemia, a crowned silver double-tailed lion on a red background (hence the white and red flag); Moravia, a checky red and white eagle on a blue field; Silesia, a black eagle (with a white thing on the breast called a kleestengel in German--cloverstalk in English) on gold.

John Andrew Lowe 14-OCT-1995