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Opole: horizontal yellow-dark blue
Pascal Vagnat, 19 May 1999
Opole is in Opole county; a retained regional seat, located on the Odra
(Oder) river and adjoining islands. An ancient Slavic capital of the Opolans
tribe, and because of this mentioned in the _Baviarian Geographer_. Since
13th century the seat of an independent Silesian duke; a town since 1217,
a vassal of the Czech kingdom since 1327, passed to Austria in 1527 and
to Prussia in 1740. In Poland since WW2. ca. 130.000 inhabitants. German
name: Oppeln.
Gwidon S. Naskrent, 6 Sept 2000
I just found this
website with a photo of a bunch of holidaymakers on the Balearics with
the flag of Poland and of Opole city - yellow over blue with the city CoA
centered on the yellow strip. I used Antonio Martin's image with the CoA
on this page for this image.
Jarig Bakker, 12 Jun 2002
There are two beautiful city photos (see here
and here), which
contain vertical PL, Euro, and Opole flag *with* COA (not on
FOTW-ws). Does mixed Opole and Euro flag have any official standing?
Lewis A. Nowitz, 12 Sep 2000
On <pl-opole.html> is a vertical flag with CoA from this
webpage, for which I followed the same procedure as above.
Jarig Bakker, 12 Jun 2002
This flag from seems too nice a design to be real. Yellow over blue
are the city colors, and they managed to mix this with the EC-flag.
Jarig Bakker, 13 Sep 2000
The text on the page with the Opole flag states that in April 1997,
the Euro Parliament's commission on the environment, regional planning
and local government awarded Opole an "Honour
Flag of the Council of Europe". This is the third highest honour after
the European Prize and Honour Plaque. It is awarded by the European Parliament
to local governments for their activities for European integration. I suspect
the fringed one is the Honour flag, which means that the one next to the
coat of arms (i.e. the altered European flag) is the city one.
Robert Czernkowski, 13 Sep 2000