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Samogitia. The Samogitian Flag (912 words) |
 | Then it was described only as a "white coat of arms on a red background." That was the Samogitian battle flag, kept in the Lithuanian treasury. |
| Aleksandras Gvagninas, who served in the Lithuanian armed forces and had the chance to see more that one flag, wrote that the flag the Samogitians used during battle was white and had two horns or a tail. |
| Since most flags depicted the Grand Duke's coat of arms and only occasionally displayed local coat of arms (Samogitia was an exception), the main distinctive trait of the flags were their colors. |
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Czartoryski at AllExperts (400 words) |
| The family became known and powerful under the lead of brothers MichaÅ Fryderyk Czartoryski and August Aleksander Czartoryski in the late Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 18th century, during the reigns of monarchs Augustus II the Strong and StanisÅaw LeszczyÅski. |
| The Czartoryski's Familia have seen the decline of the Commonwealth and the rise of anarchy and joined to camp which was determined to press ahead with the reforms, thus they sought the enactment of such constitutional reforms as the abolition of the liberum veto. |
| The coat of arms is a modification of Vytis coat - the traditional Gediminids (Gediminaiciai) coat that is now the official coat of arms of Lithuanian and Belarussian Republics (former Grand Duchy of Lithuania). |
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