Zeeland Province (The Netherlands)

Zeeland Provincie (Nederland)

Last modified: 2002-02-01 by franc van diest
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Mark Sensen, 4 May 1999

• Zeeland Province
• Zeeland CoA
• 1938 Parade flag
• Historical flag

See also:

• Clickable map of Zeeland
• VOC Zeeland Chamber (in Middelburg)
• The Netherlands
• Provinces and municipalities of the Netherlands
• Zeeland province - the municipalities
• Clickable map of the Netherlands
• The Netherlands - Index of all pages

Zeeland Province

A rather technical discussion on the Zeeland flag (mainly on the CoA) can be found on
<http://www.zeeland.nl/paginas/bestuurorganisatie/bestuur/divextra/luctoretemergoc.html>

Sierksma's 'Nederlands vlaggenboek', 1962, has this: 'Zeeland's flag was adopted 14 January 1949. It deviates from the Dutch vexillological practice of not placing coats of arms on flags, but even historically this is justified. Old flagbooks and -charts show very often a red-white-blue Zeeland flag (with equally wide stripes, or with a wider white stripe, f.i. zna99, p. 19 and <nl-ze17x.gif>) within the white stripe the complete coat of arms of Zeeland, often with below it two crossed laurel branches. Quite often the shield without crown and laurel branches can be found. Only two flag-sources, from 1667 (the Neapolitan manuscript) and a manuscript originating from Zeeland in the second half of the 18th century, deleted the coat of arms. In those days Zeeland used the RWB f