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Limburg Province (The Netherlands)

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[Provincial flag of Limburg] by Mark Sensen, 4 May 1999
adopted 28 Jul 1958

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Limburg province

The Dutch province were granted a coat of arms by Order in Council of 27 December 1886: quarterly Valkenburg (like Limburg), Gulik, Horne and Gelre, over all on an escutcheon Limburg. In the 19th century for some time an unofficial flag horizontally red over white was used. An official was adopted on 28 July 1958 in the colours of the arms: horizontally white-blue-yellow (2:1:2), over all shifted to the hoist a red lion. The blue stripe represents the River Maas. Proportions 2:3. (Not 1:2~ as given in Whitney Smiths books!).
Mark Sensen, 4 May 1999

Via the Benevex-list Jos Poels sent an article about the provincial flag of Limburg. Here is my translation:

Article in "De Limburger" newspaper, by Bart Ebisch, quoting Jos Poels, 22 Jul 2003.
The provincial flag of Limburg (Netherlands) exists for 50 years. On 28 Jul 1953 the flag was officially adopted by the "Provinciale Staten" (pro