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Encyclopedia > Coat of arms of Romania
Coat of Arms of Romania
Coat of Arms of Romania

The Coat of Arms of Romania consists of an eagle holding a cross in its beak and a sceptre and a sword in its claws. Download high resolution version (783x1020, 51 KB)Coat of Arms of Romania - Large Version This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... Download high resolution version (783x1020, 51 KB)Coat of Arms of Romania - Large Version This image depicts a seal, an emblem, a coat of arms or a crest. ... Genera Several, see below. ... A sceptre or scepter is an ornamental staff held by a ruling monarch, a prominent item of kingly regalia. ... Swiss longsword, 15th or 16th century Sword (Old English: sweord; akin to Old High German: swert, wounding tool; Proto-Indo-European: *swer-, to wound, to hurt) is a term for a long-edged, bladed weapon, consisting in its most fundamental design of a blade, usually with two edges for striking...


The shield in front of the eagle is divided in five parts, one for each historical province of Romania, with its traditional symbol:

Genera Several, see below. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... Binomial name Bos primigenius (invalid), proper name Bos taurus Bojanus, 1827 The aurochs (Bos taurus) is an extinct European mammal of the Bovidae family. ... Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... Genera See article below. ... Dobrogea is the Romanian name for Dobruja (Добруджа, Dobrudzha in Bulgarian), a territory between the lower Danube river and the Black Sea, divided between Romania and Bulgaria. ... Species See text Many large black birds of the genus Corvus are called ravens. ... This article is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... Map of Romania with Oltenia highlighted Oltenia or Lesser Wallachia is a historical province of Romania. ... Banat (Romanian: Banat; Serbian: Банат or Banat; German: Banat; Hungarian: Bánát or Bánság; Slovak: Banát) is a geographical and historical region in Southeastern Europe divided among three countries: the eastern part belongs to Romania (the counties of TimiÅŸ, CaraÅŸ-Severin, Arad, and MehedinÅ£i), the western...

Historical Coat of Arms

Royal Coat of Arms
Royal Coat of Arms
Communist Coat of Arms (Socialist Republic Romania)
Communist Coat of Arms (Socialist Republic Romania)

Download high resolution version (465x720, 131 KB) It includes the royal motto, in Latin: Nihil Sine Deo (Nothing Without God) In Romanian: Stema Regatului României Întregite Stema se întrebuinţează în trei forme: Stema cea mare: în actele Statului emanate dela M. S. (Măria Sa) Regele şi în actele oficiale internaţionale... Download high resolution version (465x720, 131 KB) It includes the royal motto, in Latin: Nihil Sine Deo (Nothing Without God) In Romanian: Stema Regatului României Întregite Stema se întrebuinţează în trei forme: Stema cea mare: în actele Statului emanate dela M. S. (Măria Sa) Regele şi în actele oficiale internaţionale... Image File history File links Stema_Republicii_Socialiste_Romania. ... Image File history File links Stema_Republicii_Socialiste_Romania. ...

See also

Coat of arms of Moldova The coat of arms of Moldova consists of an eagle holding a cross in its beak and a sceptre and a branch in its claws. ...

External links

  • presidency.ro: The Coat of Arms (HTTP cookies MUST be enabled to see it in English,
  • romania.org

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Later (1872), Romania's heraldry commission proposed a synthetic coat of arms that combined the traditional symbols of all the Romanian provinces: Wallachia, Moldavia, Bukovina, Transylvania, Maramures, Crisana, Banat and Oltenia.
The coat of arms of Greater Romania was replaced in 1947, when the Romanian People's Republic was proclaimed under pressure from the Soviet occupation troops, with a decorative effigy symbolising the country's riches guarded by ears of wheat and a rising sun as a background as well as a red star in the chief.
In the second quarter there is Moldavia's traditional coat of arms, gules: an auroch head sable with a mullet of or between its horns, a cinquefoil rose on the dexter and a waning crescent on the sinister, both argent.
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