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Philippine (The Netherlands)

Terneuzen municipality, Zeeland province

Last modified: 2005-07-02 by jarig bakker
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[Philippine villageflag] by Jarig Bakker, 7 Jun 2005
adopted c. 2005

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Philippine village flag

Gerard van der Vaart just drove through this little village in Zeeuwsch-Vlaanderen, near the Belgian border, and spotted a lot of village-flag-like items. Mr. Google provided him with these links: (http://www.historiephilippine.nl/infoavond.htm) and (http://62.238.37.4/inhoud.htm).
Based on that I made a gif of the Philippine village flag: Green with in the center the full former municipal arms; in the bottom
in white "Philippine".
Jarig Bakker, 7 Jun 2005

Philippine former municipality

[Philippine flagproposal] by Jarig Bakker, 27 Oct 2004
proposal by A.J. Beenhakker, c.1970

Philippine was a separate municipality until 1970 when it merged into Sas van Gent, and was included into Terneuzen in 2003.
Flagproposal: two equally high horizontal stripes of yellow and green; in the center a white disk charged with a blue key with bit up.
The blue key is derived from the arms of Axel, and refers to the fact that Philippine was founded in 1506 in the land of Axel on the separation of the old country, with many tre