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SEVNICA

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on March 26, 1996.

The arms show a linden tree with two birds. The composition probably already dates to the 16^th century. In older images the tree was not defined and in most cases the birds were shown as ravens or crows, see below.

The image as shown by Kobel und Pirchegger, 1954: