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	Polish heraldry - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Polish coats of arms are divided in the same way as their western counterparts.
		However, since coats of arms were originally granted to clans rather than to separate families, there was no need to join coats of arms into one when a new branch of a family was formed.
		Usually men inherited a coat of arms from their fathers (or a member of a clan who had adopted them), while women either inherited a coat from their mothers or adopted the arms of their husbands.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Polish_heraldry (1184 words)

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		A Polish coat of arms consists of: shield, crest, helm and crown.
		Polish coats of arms are divided in the same way as their western counterparts.
		However, since coats of arms were originally granted to clans rather than to separate families, there was no need to join coats of arms into one when a new branch of a family was formed.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Polish_heraldry (1225 words)

	Knightly Arms
		As a rule, the armorial field was the old, thirteenth-century triangular shield, crowned with a heraldic coat of arms with mantling.
		Knightly arms became subjected to negative ideological transformation in artistic works illustrating the passion of Jesus, whose oppressors are dressed in deformed, "horrible" armour and helmets.
		In the course of more than 600 years, it was precisely such arms which dominated in war, and their principle, namely, the effect of the impact exerted by explosive substance burnt in the barrel and ejecting the missile, remains unchanged.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/zygulski.htm (5200 words)

	Poland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Officially the country is known as Republic of Poland, in Polish Rzeczpospolita Polska.
		The biggest privatisations so far were a sale of Telekomunikacja Polska, a national telecom to France Telecom (2000) and an issue of 30% shares of the biggest Polish bank, PKO BP, on the Polish stockmarket (2004).
		Poland has a large agricultural sector of private farms, that could be a leading producer of food in the European Union now that Poland is a member.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poland (3839 words)

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	www.onelook.com /?w=coat*&first=201 (114 words)

	Image:Herb Polski.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia.
		Image:Flag of Poland with Coat of Arms 640px border1.png
		Image:Flag of Poland with Coat of Arms 640px.png
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Image:Herb_Polski.svg (175 words)

	Wrocław's Coat of Arms, Logo, and Colours
		On 12 February 1530 the chancellery of King Ferdinand I of Bohemia and Hungary in Prague issued letters patent granting a new coat of arms to the city, and on 10 July 1530 the emperor Charles V confirmed the grant.
		In 1990 the City Council chose for Wrocław's arms the quartered shield with a plate in the centre which had been used from 1530 to 1938 and from 1945 to 1948.
		The use of the name and the coat of arms of the City requires the consent of the Mayor of Wrocław.
	www.um.wroc.pl /p/3200 (388 words)

	Gmina Osielsko
		On the flag the coat of arms is situated in the center.
		We have the project of the coat of arms and flag made by the Foundation of the Tradition of the Polish Republic- the Center of the Heraldry with the abode in Warsaw.
		Although the symbolic representation of the commune’s coat of arms isn’t complicated too much- both the oak and the tower have the concrete relation, it’s worth remembering, that in the heraldry, the oak as the king of the tree, was the symbol of the force, power (might) and the beauty.
	www.osielsko.pl /?cid=104&unroll=&pp=104 (631 words)

	PGSA - Heraldry & Nobility
		A coat of arms was exactly what the name implied - the symbol borne on a knight's surcoat and shield in defence of the fatherland.
		Once ennobled the coat of arms bestowed upon the knight became hereditary to all descendents, both legitimate males and lineal females (that is unmarried daughters).
		The coat of arms name was either the name of the actual charge on the shield, or the family's battle cry.
	www.pgsa.org /Hearldry/herldintro.htm (1398 words)

	Wroclaw moje miasto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The coat of arms was then displayed at the town hall or town council building and it was used for the official town seal.
		Coats of arms had various subjects: defense, agriculture, religion, mythology.
		Thus a city's coat of arms was not only, as it were, its visiting card, but also the embodiment of its historical heritage.
	fobuss.republika.pl /awroclawstreet/big/arms.shtml (290 words)

	House of Gebauer - Coat of Arms
		You can adopt any arms you choose and use them however you want (unless you infringe on someone's trademark, which is an entirely different subject that has been beaten to death on this newsgroup so please don't ask about it); but you have no particular right to those arms or any other.
		Coats of arms are described in a technical language, devised over the centuries by heralds, with the aim of describing even the most complex coats concisely and unambiguously.
		This rule was used to ensure that coats of arms could be easily recognised at a distance or in the heat of battle.
	www.gebauer.demon.co.uk /1Gebauer/Arms (3771 words)

	Polish Nobility and Its Heraldry: An Introduction
		It is probable that they were authorities on coats of arms, responsible for the rules of the heraldic art, heraldic law; that they supervised the selection of new designs and kept track of genealogies to make sure that people did not claim ancestry to which they were not entitled.
		There are some coats of arms which could be considered as being even older, e.g., the charge of the Awdaniec clan derives its origin from the property mark which became hereditary since the beginning of the 13th century.
		Arms of the Odrowaz clan from the bookplate of Krzysztof Szydlowiecki
	www.szlachta.org /heraldry.htm (16740 words)

	Polish heraldry - Definition, explanation
		However, since the coats of arms were originally granted to clans rather than separate families, there was no need to join various coats of arms into one when a new branch of the family was formed.
		Also, the tradition of differentiating between the coat of arms proper and a lozenge granted to women did not develop in Poland.
		Usually men inherited the coat of arms from their fathers (or the member of the clan who "adopted them") while women inherited it after their mothers or were adopted to the family of the husband.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/p/po/polish_heraldry_1.php (1051 words)

	Galicia
		The coat of arms of Halych and of Halychina is: Argent, a bird sable crowned and taloned or.
		It might be the case that the arms are canting, but, again, this suggests the local Slavic derivation of the name.
		The Austrian arms for Galicia and Lodomeria were: Azure, a fillet in chief (or a bar enhanced) gules between a crow sable in chief and three ancient crowns in base, according to Woodward's Treatise.
	www.heraldica.org /topics/national/galicia.htm (358 words)

	SIG Bibliography -- Heraldry
		Arms are reproduced as line drawings with "tricking" to indicate tinctures.
		It includes a short introduction to the origins and use of heraldry in Poland, with pictures of many 15th and 16th century coats of arms from Polish ród.
		The arms of each ród is given in full color with its Polish blazon and an English translation.
	slavic.freeservers.com /biblio/herldry.html (558 words)

	Poland - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Poland's official name in Polish is Rzeczpospolita Polska.
		The names of the country, Polska, and of the nationality, the Poles, are of Slavic origin.
		Common opinion holds that the name Polska comes from the Slavic Polanie tribe who established the Polish state in the 10th century (Greater Poland).
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/p/o/l/Poland.html (2985 words)

	hoffman coat of arms - 2nd jacket (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		COAT OF ARMS The arms of the See are based upon those of...
		a bust of the king on the obverse and his coat of arms on the reverse.
		SYPNIEWSKI family was given the Odrowaz coat of arms by the Polish king and later became known...
	jacket.pemuggov.info /dir9/hoffman-coat-of-arms.html (567 words)

	PGSA - Herbarz Polski (Z) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Arms: Azure, a horseshoe, Argent heels to base, pierced of a sword in pale point to chief.
		Abraham Socha, Plock governor, was of these arms, who by his courage won Kujawy for Ziernowit, Duke of Mazovia; however he died, bravely holding his ground, along with so many other Polish lords, in that unfortunate battle between Witold, Prince of Lithuania, and Tamerlane's commander Ediga, in 1399.
		gentil., chapter five, included among other foreign coats of arms a staff around which two serpents were coiled three times, and adds that some houses in Silesia used this emblem on a sapphire shield in their seals.
	www.pgsa.org /heraldry/herbarzZ.htm (1030 words)

	Civic Heraldry
		Blazons of Russian Towns - Illustartions of nearly 600 coats of arms of Russian towns.
		The arms and flags of the Landkreis Erding (Upper Bavaria) This contains the municipal arms and flag of every municipality and also of former municipalities.
		International Civic Arms - An extensive collection of Civic and other heraldry and coats of arms by Ralf Hartemink.
	www.digiserve.com /heraldry/civicc.htm (230 words)

	Poland
		According to the Article 2 of the Act, "The coat of arms of the Republic of Poland is the image of a white eagle with a gold crown on his head turned right, with unfolded wings and gold beak and claws, on a red field."
		The flag with the coat of arms is to be hoisted by diplomatic, consular and other official establishments abroad, by civilian airports and airfields, by civilian airplanes while abroad and by the port authorities.
		Of course, the franchise for electing a king was strictly limited, and the elections were marked by great bribery and corruption; see any accounts of the election of various Saxon kings to the Polish throne during the 18th Century, or for that matter the election of Stanislav Leszczynski during the middle of that century.
	flagspot.net /flags/pl.html (2831 words)

	historytobin
		Once ennobled, the Coat of Arms bestowed and the property and lands given to a knight became hereditary to all descendants, both legitimate males and lineal females.
		Nobility was reflected in the suffix tagged to the end of the surname: cki or ski, wich equated to the German 'von', the French 'de', and the English 'of', denoting ownership of that village, estate or farm.
		These clans used three variants of the Coat of Arms; one variant had only the cross in the shield, one had the cross with two scythes blades and the third had the cross with only one scythe blade in a blue and red shield.
	members.networld.com /hdliedtke/historytobin.html (1377 words)

	Courtly Lives - The Name Sypniewski
		The Sypniewski arms were recorded since 1480, when the Sypniewskis moved to Silesia around Podgorze and received the right to use the Odrowaz clan's coat of arms.
		Jan resettled in Lithuania in the province of Brzesko-Litewesk, Poznan, Nowy Sacz, and Prussia.
		It was at this time that they exchanged their arms for that of the Odrowaz clan.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/SypName.html (932 words)

	Free Code of Arms
		Earl of Oxford + coat of arms + crest
		coat of arms + sanchez "coats of arms"
		Note: A Coat of Arms is also sometimes reffered to as: Family Shield, Code of Arms, Family Crest, Family Seal, Cote of Arms, Heraldry, Family Sheild, Family Symbol, Shields, Wappen, Escudo, Mark, Seals, Arms as well as several other common terms.
	www.irishfamilycoatsofarms.com /freecodeofarms.html (246 words)

	Poland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The names of the country, Polska, and of the nationality, the Poles, are of Slavic origin.
		The biggest privatisations so far were a sale of Telekomunikacja Polska, a national telecom to France Telecom (2000) and an issue of 30% shares of the biggest Polish bank, PKO BP, on the Polish stockmarket (2004).
		Poland has a large agricultural sector of private farms, that could be a leading producer of food in the European Union now that Poland is a member.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/po/Poland.htm (2958 words)

	Heraldica: Links to other resources on the Web
		The British Ordinary of Arms: an On-line Ordinary of British Arms prior to 1530.
		Polska w Pajeczynie: Herby Miast Polskich coats of arms of Polish cities (in Polish).
		Among touchy heraldic topics are the regulation of arms in Great Britain, the role of the College of Arms, the nobiliary connotations of heraldry.
	www.heraldica.org /elsewhere.htm (2223 words)

	Society, Issues, Warfare and Conflict, Arms Trade
		Arms lobby information and activists throughout the world..
		Campaigns for the reduction and ultimate abolition of the international arms trade and the UK's role in it as a leading arms exporter.
		Aims to reduce the proliferation of small arms where they are likely to produce conflict, violence and human rights abuses.
	www.klevze.si /browse/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Arms_Trade (266 words)

	A Page from the History of the Kalinowski Family
		Arms: On a red shield, an upright silver arrow with a golden point, which is upward.
		Arms: Gules, an arrow erect argent, the point upward Or, with the flights fracted chevronwise and at each end of the flights a mullet of six points Or.
		This section is a compilation of literature references related to the Kalinowa Coat of Arms and/or the history of the Kalinowski family.
	www.kalinowski.freewebsitehosting.com (1679 words)

	Polish_heraldry info here at en.anytargetedresults.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Unlike in Western Europe, the Polish szlachta did not emerge from the class of knights under Chivalry, but rather from a Slavic class of Free Warriors or Mercenaries.
		For example: Jan Zamoyski herbu Jelita means Jan Zamoyski of the Jelita coat of arms (though it is often translated as...of the clan Jelita).
		Polish coats of arms - a full list of Polish coats of arms
	en.anytargetedresults.info /Polish_heraldry (1252 words)

	rec.heraldry FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The fact that your name happens to be "Smith", for example, gives you no claim whatsoever on any of the thousands of arms borne throughout history by various people named "Smith." Unfortunately, there are lots of unscrupulous businessmen worldwide who are happy to promulgate false information about the subject of armory.
		A full English coat of arms (an "achievement") consists of: - a shield (with arms painted on it, obviously); - above the shield, a helm or helmet; - hanging from the helm, the mantling, which represents a piece of cloth used for protection from the sun.
		==================================== Coats of arms are described in a technical language, devised over the centuries by heralds, with the aim of describing even the most complex coats concisely and unambiguously.
	www.faqs.org /faqs/heraldry/faq (3547 words)

	rec.heraldry FAQ
		The fact that your name happens to be "Smith", for example, gives you no claim whatsoever on any of the thousands of arms borne throughout history by various people named "Smith." Unfortunately, there are lots of unscrupulous businessmen worldwide who are happy to promulgate false information about the subject of armory.
		A full English coat of arms (an "achievement") consists of: - a shield (with arms painted on it, obviously); - above the shield, a helm or helmet; - hanging from the helm, the mantling, which represents a piece of cloth used for protection from the sun.
		==================================== Coats of arms are described in a technical language, devised over the centuries by heralds, with the aim of describing even the most complex coats concisely and unambiguously.
	www.cs.uu.nl /wais/html/na-dir/heraldry/faq.html (3522 words)

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