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Two Belgian provinces have not offically adopted a flag: Hainaut and Liège.
Pascal Vagnat, 30 May 1999
![[Liege banner of arms]](../images/b/be)wlg.gif)
by Gerard van der Vaart
The banner of arms unofficially used by the province of Liège is:
Quartered, I gules the perron of Liège or flanked by the letters L and G of the same, II gules a fess silver, III silver three lions rampant vert 2 + 1 crowned or langued and armed gules, IV or five fesses gules, in point or three horns silver and gules 2 +1.
Ivan Sache, 20 June 2004
The first quarter shows the municipal arms of the city of Liège, described as follows:
"The present arms were officially granted on February 1st, 1947, and may be surrounded by several chains of military decorations. The arms of Liège show a monument or perron. The perron is most likely derived form an actual monument in the city. It is first seen on a coin of Hendrik II of Limburg, as prince-bishop of Liège, dating between 1145 and 1165. The perron was shown freely on coins until the mid XIVth century, when the symbol was placed in a shield. Whether the city at the time already used it as city arms is not known. Ever since the perron, including the base with the three lions, has been the arms of the city. The actual shape, however has varied widely during the centuries, and similarly, not all images show the lions. In the late XVIIth century the whole name, LIEGE was shown around the perron. The letters L and G appear for the first time in the late XVIIIth century."
Jarig Bakker, 17 November 2001
The coat of arms of the province of Liège does not represent correctly the current province of Liège: the former county of Hoorn, represented by the three posthorns, was incorporated into the Netherlands in 1839; the former duchy of Bouillon, represented by the horizontal red-white-red stripes, is now located in the Belgian province of Luxembourg; the co