Gorodok (Rivne, Ukraine)

Horodok

Last modified: 2004-08-07 by dov gutterman
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Городок

(1:1)
from the site of Ukrainian Heraldry

• The Gonfalon
• Coat of Arms
• The City

See also:

• Ukraine
• Rivne County

The Gonfalon

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"At the 17th of Jule, 1998 village council session confirmed the gonfalon by solution N 26: a rectangular canvas with a ratio of the sides: 1:1. In a blue field is the yellow monastery gate on the green island. In the bottom is white wavy edging with a width of 1/5 from a width of the gonfalon. The authors are A.Grechylo and Yu.Terlets'kyi."
Dov Gutterman, 27 March 2002

Coat of Arms

from the site of Ukrainian Heraldry

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"On the 17th of Jule, 1998 village council session confirmed a modern emblem by solution 26: in the azure field there are or monastery gate on the vert island above wavy argent base. The authors are A.Grechylo and Yu.Terlets'kyi."
Dov Gutterman, 27 March 2002

The City

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"The first mention refers to 1463. The settlement was a little fortress on the island and belonged to prince Soltan."
Dov Gutterman, 27 March 2002

I guess "horodok" means "village", like the russian equivalent "gorodok" (and spelled the same way in both langu