image by Jorge Candeias, 26 July 1999
Last modified: 2005-11-19 by dov gutterman
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image by Jorge Candeias, 26 July 1999
Note: Now part of the new Tapa vald
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Adopted: October 1992. Tapa site with images and information
(in Estonian ) about the flag and the Coat of arms is at <www.tapa.ee>.
Dov Gutterman, 2 July 1999
Red and white horizontal stripes in proportions about
2:1:1:1:1:1:2.
Jorge Candeias, 26 July 1999
From <www.tapa.ee>:
Coat of arms - is a forked silver cross on a red shield, a double
- edged silver sword across the lower branch of the forked cross
with the golden hilt on the left. The forked silver cross is the
railroad from Tallinn and its branches to Narva and Valga. The
silver sword marks the spot between Tapa and Tallinn where in
1918 Estonian forces stopped a Russian assault. The surface of
Tapa's flag is divided alternately into four red and three white
horizontal stripes. The outer upper and outer lower stripes are
red both with the width of 2/9 of the flag; the three white and
two red lines between these have each the width of 1/9 of the
flag. Again, the three white stripes represent the rail lines to
Tallinn, Narva, and Valga.
Erki Kurrikoff, 11 April 2001
Saksi vald and Tapa linn with Lehtse vald from Jarvamaa county have
formed a new municipality called Tapa
vald at 20 October 2005.
Erki Kurrikoff, 4 November 2005
image from <www.rk.ee>,
located by Dov Gutterman