Hlyshky (Kyiv, Ukraine)

Glyshky

Last modified: 2011-03-19 by andrew weeks
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Глушки

(2:3)
image from the site of Ukrainian Heraldry

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms
• The Village

See also:

• Ukraine
• Kyiv County
• Bila Tserkva District

The Flag

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"In the middle of red rectangular panel with a ratio of the sides as 2:3 is white crossed sabre and arrow edges up accompanied in the top by yellow formy cross."
Dov Gutterman, 7 June 2007

Coat of Arms

image from the site of Ukrainian Heraldry

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"Gules; argent sabre and arrow arrow edges up accompanied in chief by or formy cross. The shield enframed by or cartouche and crowned by or village crown. The author is E.Chernets'kyi.
Emblem uses symbols, which are characteristic of cossacks (in particular, Bila Tserkva city - arrow, sabre, cross). Cossack victory emphasizes gules colour.
E.Chernets'kyi, "The symbols of Bilotserkivschyna".".
Dov Gutterman, 7 June 2007

The Village

From the site of Ukrainian Heraldry:
"Village is old cossack or petty-bourgeois farm, which existed already in the eve of Cossack-Polish war of 1648."
Dov Gutterman, 7 June 2007