City flag

The city or municipality flag is a municipal jurisdiction icon .

In Europe in the Middle Ages, a city was granted the right to have its own coat of arms with its town charter . The city ​​colors and thus also the design of the flag were mostly derived from it ( see also coat of arms banner ). Well-known examples of city flags in the Middle Ages were the flags of the Hanseatic cities .

Over time, more and more municipal flags were set by ordinances and coats of arms. Today, municipal flags are common in many countries around the world as a sign of administrative sovereignty.

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  Hanseatic City of Lübeck , Germany

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  City of Salzkotten , Germany

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  Brisbane , Australia

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  Lipkovo , North Macedonia

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  Lisbon , Portugal

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  Kyoto , Japan

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  Harare , Zimbabwe

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  Rio de Janeiro , Brazil

literature

• Gerold Anrich, Adrian Cornford, Gudrun Cornford: The flag book: The history of the most important flags in the world . Ravensburg 1978, ISBN 3-473-35509-6 .