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Druten (The Netherlands)
Gelderland province
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adopted 23 Feb1984
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Druten municipality
Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 17.461; area: 42,50 km². Settlements:
Druten (seat), Afferden, Deest, Horssen, Puiflijk.
Afferden, Deest and Puiflijk were added to Druten in 1818; Horssen
in 1984.
Druten lies some kilometers west of Nijmegen in the riverlandscape
of Waal and Maas. Tobacco was grown here.
The flag was adopted 23 Feb1984; it is derived from the municipal CoA;
the green stripe seems to symbolize the fertile stroke of land between
the big rivers Maas and Waal. The lion is derived from the provincial CoA
of Gelderland.
Jarig Bakker, 17 September 1999
Druten former flag
by Jarig Bakker, 19 September 2004
Before the merger with Horssens the old municipality of Druten used
a flag with three equally wide horizontal stripes of white - green - white,
with on the green stripe four red five-pointed stars. The stars represented
the four villages Afferden, Deest, Druten and Puiflijk. Flag ado