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How does this reflects on the Praha CoA?
If I am not much mistaken the CoA of the city (or the capital region) has
lesser variants withotu flags, but the greater variant is adorned with
the flags in the crest. Has it been changed also, or would it need a special
decision of the city administration in this regards, or the change is "automatic".
Zeljko Heimer, 10 Feb 2004
Anything can happen in Prague - including nothing! In fact two flags
on the greater Praha arms represent Praha 3 already: Královské
Vinohrady (Königliche Weinberge) and Žižkov
(Zischkow/Veitsberg). The first Greater CoA was introduced in 1926 (approved
in 1927), and contained 18 banners. Those banners were in fact used only
on that CoA. Six more banners were added to the crest in 1991, when the
Prague arms were novelised for the last time. If the CoA were to be changed
it is probably with the addition of 6 or nx6 banners. However the administrative
division of Prague is "senseless" according to Pavel
Fojtik. There are 56 municipal units, 112 cadastral units, as well
as 15 units named Praha 1 to 15; The areas covered by those units do not
overlap, and neither do probably the sewage districts or whatever they
got more.
Source: Pavel Fojtik "Flags of the municipal units of the city of
Prague", in a special edition of Vexilokontakt "Flags over Czech towns",
September 2000.
Petr Exner promised to devote a special issue of his famous VexLex
series to Prague district flags, and hopefully we will learn more about
this rather confusing business.
Jarig Bakker, 11 Feb 2004
At this
website are proposals for flag and CoA of Praha3, consisting of Zizkov
and Vinohrady. Flag and CoA are based on those
two wards; the last page mentions a page
with three flagproposals and one crude CoA, which now seem to be finalized.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Jul 2002