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According to the specifications available at this
website, it looks like the flag we had at FOTW-ws was not correct.
I adapted the image according to the details available there
Pascal Gross, 13 Nov 2001
Here's a FOTW standard image of the flag of Szczecin, Poland after image
from this site. Nice one, I sure
enjoyed giffing it! My image is different, especially in the order of the
stripes. While Jan Oskar's image is BRBRBR, mine is RBRBRB. Any ideas?
Antonio Martins, 11 Dec 1998
I have just found flag of my home city, Szczecin, at the "Flags of The World" site described by yourself. Please be advised that in fact those strips are not red-blue, but rather crimson-navy blue, and there is a head of the griffin, which is the symbol of Western Pomerania (Szczecin is the capital of this province).
You mentioned that Szczecin used to be a German city. In fact, originally it was Pomeranian. So called "Polish nation" consisted of five tribes: Polans, Vistulans, Silesians, Mazovians and Pomeranians. So we can say that Szczecin is Polish in origin. But in its l