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![[Velesín flag]](../images/c/cz-ck-ve.gif)
by Jarig Bakker, 28 May 2001
The Czech web page "Mesta
a obce online" ("Towns and communities online") shows that the Velešín
flag should be blue, yellow and white. This is the coloration more compatible
with the CoA than the blue, white, black. According to the Velešín vicemayor,
Mr.
Dalibor Janak, the city flag is indeed horizontal blue-yellow-white.
Jan Zrzavy, 28 May 2001
Petr Exner asked me to inform you about the true Velešín flag.
In May 1999, the city office of Velešín proposed the horizontal tricolore
yellow-white-blue, but the parliamentary heraldic-vexillological subcomittee
rejected this proposal because of duplicity. In October 1999, another proposal
was sent to the Parliament - horizontal tricolore blue-yellow-white - and
was approved. Officially, Velešín received its flag in November 26, 1999.
Jan Zrzavy, 30 May 2001
The first written mention of the town is from 1266. In meander of Malše river, on high bill, was established castle by king Přemysl Otakar II. Together with castle arose settlement on opposite bank of Malše of which gradually formed the town. The castle and settlement were given to Čéč of Budějovice by Přemysl Otakar as compensation for his loss of Budějovice. In 1