Coat of arms used in Romania

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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 Sealography (Comisia Naţională de Heraldică, Genealogie şi Sigilografie), subordinated to the Romanian Academy.

[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.

[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.

[edit] Kingdom of Romania

[edit] 1872 - 1921

In 1872 the coat of arms was changed again, this time being added the heraldic symbols for Oltenia and Black Sea's coast. After 1881, the last symbol will represent Dobrudja. Also, trough use, the coat of arms' aspect was changed a bit.

1872 - 1881

After 1881

[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

January-March 1948

March 1948 - 1952

1952 - 1966

[edit] Socialist Republic of Romania

[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

Alba	Arad	Argeş	Bacău
Bihor	Bistriţa Năsăud	Botoşani	Braşov
Brăila	Buzău	Caraş-Severin	Călăraşi
Cluj	Constanţa	Covasna	Dâmboviţa
Dolj	Galaţi	Giurgiu	Actual Gorj county CoA.png Gorj
Harghita	Hunedoara	Ialomiţa	Iaşi
Ilfov	Maramureş	Mehedinţi	Mureş
Neamţ	Olt	Prahova	Sălaj
Satu Mare	Sibiu	Suceava	Teleorman
Timiş	Tulcea	Vaslui	Vâlcea
Vrancea

[edit] Coat of arms of towns

The main heraldic element that helps people to distinguish between a coat of arms of a county and the one of an 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

Alba-Iulia	Alexandria	Arad	Bacău
Baia Mare	Bistriţa	Botoşani	Braşov
Brăila	Bucharest	Buftea	Buzău
Călăraşi	Constanţa	Craiova	Cluj-Napoca
Deva	Drobeta-Turnu Severin	Focşani	Galaţi
Giurgiu	Iaşi	Miercurea-Ciuc	Oradea
Piatra Neamţ	Piteşti	Ploieşti	Râmnicu Vâlcea
Reşiţa	Satu Mare	Sfântu Gheorghe	Sibiu
Slatina	Slobozia	Suceava	Târgovişte
Târgu Jiu	Târgu Mureş	Timişoara	Tulcea
Vaslui	Zalău

[edit] Coat of arms of other central institutions

The coat of arms of The Minister of Justice used until 2007

[edit] Law enforcement

Romanian Police	Romanian Inspectorate for Emergency Situations	Romanian Border Police	Romanian Gendarmerie
Romanian Financial Guard

[edit] Army

General Staff of the Romanian Army	Romanian Land Forces Staff	Romanian Naval Forces Staff	Romanian Air Force Staff
Romanian Army Roundel	The main heraldic ellement of the Romanian Army

[edit] Secret services

Romanian Intelligence Service

Foreign Intelligence Service

Protection and Guard Service

Special Telecommunication Service

[edit] References

Other Wikipedia pages

[edit] External links

Romanian Personal Heraldry by Tudor-Radu Tiron

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