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Edam (The Netherlands)

Edam-Volendam municipality, Noord-Holland province

by Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003

Edam oldest flag
Edam old flag
Edam 1962 flag

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Edam oldest flag

For this small Zuiderzee-town in Noord-Holland two ancient flags have been reported:
Red with a black bull with on its neck and behind a white 5-pointed star. Source: "Flags of the World 1669-1670"- a seventeenth century manuscript - edited by Kl. Sierksma, 1966.
Sierksma comments: The flag of this Zuyder Zee town is based on its arms, yet deviates from them in a peculiar way. The Sketchbook (No. 54: "Di Edam") does not show the stars placed, as here, in the bull's neck and rump, but has a 6-pointed star immediately behind the animal's tail.
In the coat-of-arms there are three stars in the chief of the escutcheon.
The flag is not found in the other sources.
Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003

Edam old flag

by Jarig Bakker, 23 Nov 2003

Edam is a small town on the IJsselmeer, in the municipality of Edam-Volendam.
In the Napolitan manuscript of 1667 there is a flag of Edam described by Sierksma, in Nederlands Vlaggenboek, 1962 [sie62]: "Re