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- From: qasama@cartan.WPI.EDU (John Grossi)
- Newsgroups: rec.heraldry
- Subject: Re: Eastern European Arms
- Date: 27 Jan 1993 14:32:41 GMT
- Organization: Society for Creative Leisure
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- References: <BRANDON.93Jan25163842@gauss.math.brown.edu>
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- In article <BRANDON.93Jan25163842@gauss.math.brown.edu> brandon@gauss.math.brown.edu (Joshua Brandon) writes:
- >I've been reading (and saving!) with interest the various discussions on
- >the arms of various Eastern European countries and regions. Here's a
- >question --- does anyone know how old these are? Some of the countries
- >involved were indpendent for a while during the early part of the millenium
- >--- did they have arms then, or were all of these invented in the 19th
- >century, or some of each? For that matter, how old are the arms of Russia
- >or its cities? Anyone know any of this stuff?
-
- I know that the Polish coat of arms (Piast Family) was in use by the time
- of the Mongolian Invasion in 1241.
-
- John
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