Urjala
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URJALA
Region : Pirkanmaa
Former province : 1997-2009 Länsi-Suomi (until 1997 Häme)
Official blazon
Punaisessa kentässä hopeinen apilaristi, jonka kustakin kulmasta lähtee kultainen liekki.
Origin/meaning
The arms were granted on June 13, 1955.
The cross bottony symbolises agriculture and the ancestral spiritual culture. The flames symbolise how the peat from the area's peat bogs has been exploited and swamps were converted to cultivated soil.
The arms on a road sign |
Literature : Pirinen, K. Local coats of arms in Finland (Suomen kunnallisvaakunat), Vantaa, 1982, 216 p.
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