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by Mello Luchtenberg, 1 April 2001
See also:
Municipalities (108 settlements, including 9 towns and 2 cities):
Cities (not part of the county):
Towns:
Other municipalities in FOTW:
Ratio: 1:2 . Adopted: after 1991 and always hoisted vertically
The arms of A-H county of Fejér (Weisenburg , granted
around 1650) are still used even if now the county has much
larger area.
Zeljko Heimer - from FAME
A very informative page about the flag and the Coat of Arms of
the county and its history (now only in Hungarian) - <www.fejer.hu>.
Some informations from the page:
The first mention of Fejér County is from 1009. The counties
were administrative divisions in the 11-13th centuries (Royal
Counties). The counties became communities of the nobles from the
13th century. (Noble Counties) The first information about a
noble county is from 1232 (Zala County). To the 16th century the
counties hadn't got symbols. They use their sheriff's seal.
(sheriff means alispán in Hungarian, the administrative leader
of the community of the county). The first used Coat of Arms is
from 1490. This Coat of Arms was used by Hunyad County (today
Hunedoara County, Rumania) In 1498 King Vladislas II gave a
CoA to Somogy County. In 1550 the LXII Law decreed "
Every counties have to have seal (...)
In 1550 Zala, Zemplén, Nyitra and Hont counties got Coat of
Arms. King Leopold I gave the Coat of Arms to Fejér County in
1694. The original scr