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Mark Sensen, 14 November 1996

• Description, origin and adoption
• Historical flags
• Resistance flag
• CoA
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• North Holland
• The Netherlands
• North Holland Province - The municipalities.
• Provinces and municipalities of the Netherlands
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Horizontal stripes red-black-red with three 'X's in white in the middle. Proportions 2:3.

Pascal Vagnat, 14 December 1997

The present flag is probably also the oldest design (16^th or 17^th century): a banner-of-the-arms, rotated 90 degrees.
Adopted: 5 February 1975. (Source: [ped80] Pedersen 1980).

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Before 1975, unofficially a tricolour red-white-black with the arms on the white stripe was used. Such a flag was already know since the 17th century.

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Another variant used in the 17th century had seven horizontal stripes white, red, black, white, black, red, white, with the arms all over. (The arms on both variants could again be in different variants: shield only, shield and crown, shield, crown and supporters; either centered or shifted to the hoist.).

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Another early variant was the Dutch tricolour with the saltires in black.

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Verzetsvlag

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Amsterdam has a special Verzetsvlag ("Resistance flag"): white with the full coat of arms. Such a flag was given in 1947 by Queen Wilhelmina on occasion of the addition of the motto to the coat-of-arms 28 May 1947. This motto Heldhaftig, Vastberaden, Barmhartig ("Heroic, Determined, Merciful") was given to the city for the merit during 1940-1945. This flag is used during WWII-commemorations.

Mark Sensen, 08 July 1999

Amsterdam CoA

International Civic Arms : http://www.ngw.nl/