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Zaandam (The Netherlands)

Zaanstad municipality, Noord-Holland province

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Zaandam [former municipality]

This is the old flag of Zaandam, used 1938-1974.
Sierksma's "Nederlands Vlaggenboek", 1962 [sie62] has this on it:
"Fourteen equally wide horizontal stripes of blue, black, and yellow, with a canton diagonally divided red and white.
This flag was adopted by municipal resolution on 14 July 1938. In 1874 it was proposed to introduce a black and blue flag, but the city's archivist told that the colors of Zaandam were red, blue, white, and yellow (the colors of the CoA).
The 1938 flag was chosen from 25 designs, after a suggestion of one of the council members to adopt a red flag had been turned down: "Politics has no rôle to play in the choice of a flag", according to the mayor, chairman of the council."
Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2003

Zaandam 1667 flag

[Zaandam 1667 flag] by Jarig Bakker, 18 May 2003

This is the old flag of Zaandam, used in the 17th century.
Sierksma's "Nederlands Vlaggenboek", 1962 [sie62] has this on it: <