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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Velde Francois)
- Subject: Re: Bosnia & Hercegovina
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.182413.24371@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <BxsB95.37D@well.sf.ca.us>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:24:13 GMT
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- In article <BxsB95.37D@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
- >
- >I caught a few seconds of TV news in which a map of Bosnia and Hercegovina
- >was shown with a coat of arms that I did not recognize. For all I know it
- >was cobbled up by the graphics department to suggest the immemorial feuds
- >that have plagued the Balkans, but it was good heraldry.
-
- The National Geographic's most recent map of Europe features some
- of the newly hoisted flags. Bosnia is shown as having a field
- Argent, with an escutcheon bearing Azure, a Bend Argent, 6 fleur-de-lys
- argent 2,1 at sinister and 1,2 at dexter.
-
- Note that Croatia has on its flag an escutcheon bearing chequey Argent
- and Gules, dating back to the 16th century, but also used by the
- Croatian puppet regime in 1941-45, hence some bad feelings in this
- notoriously sensitive region.
-
- --
-
- Francois Velde
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