![[South Moravian Region flag]](../images/c/cz-62.gif)
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by Pascal Gross, 11 Jan 2004
The last region - Jihomoravsky kraj - got its symbols last friday (5
Mar 2004). Hejtman of the region (he is elected representative of the region)
on a photo holds the picture of the flag of the region. This picture I
took in The Hall of the State Acts in Czech Parliament.
Petr Exner, 12 Mar 2004
![[South Moravian Region Coat of Arms]](../images/c/cz)62.gif)
from Petr Exner's website.
![[South Moravian Region Coat of Arms (proposal)]](../images/c/cz)jm.gif)
image from Petr Exner's
site.
The regional assembly of the South Moravian Region ("Jihomoravsky kraj")
has approved the regional symbols. Both Coat of Arms and flag are quartered. The
first field is blue with red-white chechkered Moravian eagle. The second
field is yellow with black two-headed eagle with the escutcheon split into
white, red, white, and red (1:2:2:2) stripes and with black initials F
III above eagle's heads. The third field is yellow with blue bunch of grapes.
The fourth field is blue with red-yellow checkered Moravian eagle. Note
that both versions of the Moravian eagle are included. However, this symbolics
is highly conflicting and protests by historicians and heraldicists are
appearing. The double-headed eagle as a symbol of the regional capital,
the city of Brno, seems unacceptable for many, because it is neither ancient
nor present symbol of the city (it is the WRWR shield). The eagle, in fact
the Habsburg eagle, was added to the Brno Coat of Arms by emperor Ferdninand III
(= F III, King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor (1637-1657), who granted
Brno the imperial eagle for having repelled an attack by the Swedes), and
it was excluded from the Coat of Arms in early 1930's. Unfortunately, the Coat of Arms with
the eagle returned to be used during the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Since 1945, the ancient simple Coat of Arms (WRWR) is used. Usage of "F III" COA
in the regional symbols is hence somewhat anachronic (although accusation
that the regional Coat of Arms include "Nazi" or "Protectorate" symbols are evidently
incorrect). Most probably, the South Moravian assembly will revoke this
issue in September.
Jan Zrzavy, 10 Jul 2001
![[South Moravian Region flag (proposal)]](../images/c/cz-jm.jpg)
image from this
site, reported by Jarig Bakker, 3 Sep 2001
I don't know how official this is:
Flag: a blue field with a Moravian eagle with a white shield on its
breast, on which a bunch of blue grapes
Jarig Bakker, 3 Sep 2001
Both symbols, flag and COA, were approved by the regional assembly and
sent to the Parliament for final approvement. However, the flag violates
the rules accepted for regional symbols and hardly can be approved. The
COA is, in general, OK, but there are strong protests from Moravian historic
and heraldic circles and, according to newspaper 'Lidove noviny',
Mr. Klaus, the speaker of the House of Representatives (who has the
right to administer municipal and regional sumbols formally) seems to agree
with the protesters. However, the South Moravian representatives seem to
insist in their proposals. (They were enforced by the right-wing parties,
namely by civic democrats, christian democrats, and the Freedom Union,
while social democrats and communists declared their distance.)
Now, I've no recent info from the parliamentary heraldic-vexillological
subcommittee, which is the expert body whose decision will most probably
be respected. We'll see who will be the winner of that South Moravian symbolic
war.
Jan Zrzavy, 4 Sep 2001
Yesterday, the parliamentary subcommittee rejected finally the conflicting
symbols of South Moravian
Jan Zrzavy, 28 Mar 2002
