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Etten-Leur (The Netherlands)

Noord-Brabant province

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Etten-Leur municipality Shipmate Flagchart : http://www.shipmate.nl/flags.htm
Adopted 11 Mar 1968

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Etten-Leur municipality

Number of inhabitants (1 Jan 2003): 39.363; area: 55,90 km². Settlements: Etten-Leur (seat).
This flag was approved by the municipal council on 11 March 1968.
Description: a rectangular red flag, proportioned 2:3, with a white hoist-triangle with its point on the fly; on white a round opened castle with four pinnacles.
The colors red and white are from the municipal CoA.
Source: the Etten-Leur municipal website.

Etten-Leur old flag (c.1935)

[Etten Leur old flag] by Jarig Bakker, 26 Jun 2005
used in 1935

According to "Wie, Wat, Waar? 1940", an annual published by the Rotterdamsch Nieuwsblad in Nov. 1939, the flag of Etten-Leur was: square checquy of red and white; in top hoist a blue square charged with three yellow castles, placed 2,1, below a yellow crown.
This is a parading flag, used when 's-Hertogenbosch, the Brabant capital, celebrated its 750th birthday in 1935. The red and white blocks are from the Noord-Brabant flag; in t