Romanian heraldry
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All the coats of arms of all the Romanian institutions must be approved by the National Committee of Heraldry, Genealogy and Vexillology, subordinated to the Romanian Academy.
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[edit] Coat of arms of Romania
[edit] Principality of Romania
[edit] 1862 - 1866
After the election of Alexandru Ioan Cuza as Domnitor of Wallachia and of Moldavia, the heraldic symbols of the two countries were united to form the coat of arms of the new state, called, since 1862, Romania. The idea was not new: most of the Phanariotes used the united symbols in their personal coat of arms to express the fact that they ruled in both countries.
Until 1866, there was no official design of the coat of arms, although painter Carol Popp de Szathmary drew a few models.
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[edit] 1866 - 1878
After 10 May 1866 (when Carol I came to Romania), and the Constitution of 1 June 1866, the coat of arms was established, maintaining the idea used in the previous coat of arms. It was not changed until 1878, the year that Romania gained its independence and became a Kingdom.
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[edit] Kingdom of Romania
[edit] 1878 - 1922
After the War of Independence Romania gained a new territory (Northern Dobruja), and a heraldic symbol was added to the coat of arms to represent it.
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[edit] 1922 - 1947
After World War I, Transylvania, Bessarabia, Banat, and Bukovina united with the Kingdom of Romania. As a result, the symbols representing the new territories were added to the coat of arms.
 The Great Coat of Arms |
 The Middle Coat of Arms |
 The Small Coat of Arms |
[edit] People's Republic of Romania
[edit] Socialist Republic of Romania
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[edit] Romania
[edit] 1989 - 1992
Right after the fall of Nicolae Ceauşescu and the communist regime, the communist emblem was cut off from all the flags, and removed from all the official seals of the country. Some flags presented a hole (a symbol of the revolution, some become pure blue-yellow-red, as later it was officially re-adopted. The seals of the institutions bared, in the place of the coat of arms the name of the country ROMANIA or ROMÂNIA (depending on the technology available for each institution).
[edit] 1992 - present day
In 1992 the Parliament of Romania adopted the current coat of arms, by merging two proposed models, both of them inspired by the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Romania.
 The coat of arms |
 The seal |
[edit] Coat of arms of counties
Note: Not all the coats of arms are depicted here, because they are not uploaded yet to Wikipedia.
[edit] Coat of arms of towns
The main heraldic element that helps us to distinguish between a coat of arms of a county and the one of a urban entity (village, commune, city, town or municipality) is a mural crown on the top of the latter. The crown has an odd number of towers (one, three, five or seven), depending on the importance of the urban entity in the country or county.
[edit] County seats
[edit] Coat of arms of other central institutions
[edit] Parliament
[edit] Ministries
[edit] Law enforcement
[edit] Army
 Romanian Army Roundel |
 The main heraldic ellement of the Romanian Army |
[edit] Secret services
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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