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Bergen in Noordholland is a municipality with (1981) 14.238 inhabitants on 3355 hectares, with the villages Bergen (administrative center), Bergen aan Zee, Het Woud, and Zanegeest). It is involved in municipal reorganization, which so far produced no official flag.
Bergen is a small village near the North Sea. It was first mentioned
in 960; in 1190 Bergen received a CoA from Count Floris III of Holland
as a reward for the support against the Westfrisians. It was gules bend
argent between six an orle merlettes. Merlets are heraldic birds without
legs and beaks.
Last year I saw several BoA's, probably banners or flags to attract tourists.
On 19 Sep 1799 a combined Russian/English force was routed by troups of
the Batavian Republic and France, memorized by the Russian monument. Bergen
became an artists' center in 1915.
Jarig Bakker, 9 Jul 2001
![[Groet village flag]](../images/n/nl-nh_gr.gif)
by Stefan Lambrechts, 9 Jun 2005, of Shipmate
Flagchart.
Groet is a village in the municipality of Bergen (Noord-Holland province).
Until 1833 it was a separate municipality; it was then merged into Schoorl,
and in 2001 into Bergen.
Flag: white with in the center the village (former municipal) arms,
and in the bottom in red "GROET".
Groet is a little village at the feet of the dunes. The name means:
"grassland", but as "Groet" is Dutch for "greetings" or "salute" the villagers
are supposed to be friendly to guests. It has attracted several artists,
not quite unfamous in the Netherlands, who were known, together with those
that lived in Bergen, as the "Bergensche School".
Arms: or a lion rampant gules, with in base a label of three pendants
azure.
Granted 22 Oct 1817
Stefan Lambrechts, 9 Jun 2005