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 [[File:joniskis.jpg|center|Arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]]
-===Official blazon===
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+|+Official blazon
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+|'''Lithuanian'''
+| blazon wanted
+|-
+|'''English'''
+| blazon wanted
+|}
-====Origin/meaning====
+===Origin/meaning===
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+The arms were granted on July 4, 1616 by King Sigismund Vasa and were officially regranted on April 17, 1991.
+The arms symbolise the fight against Protestantism: the Vasa dynasty especially liked such usage of St. Michael. The arms were used until the end of the 18th century.
+In 1970 the old arms were already forgotten. So new arms were created, reflecting the active participation of people from Joniškis in the uprisings of the 18th-19th centuries: on a red field sinister bendwise a silver lined scythe (the most popular weapon of peasants) and two golden 8-pointed stars. But heraldry of Lithuanian towns was banned in 1970 before the approval of new arms.
+The historical arms were reconstructed from the text of privilege (picture did not survive) and from seals of the 17th-18th centuries.
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-[[Literature]] : Rimsa, 1998
+[[Civic Heraldry Literature - Lithuania|'''Literature''']]: Rimsa, 1998
 [[Category:Lithuanian Municipalities]]
 [[Category:Šiauliai]]
+[[Category:Granted 1616]]
+[[Category:Granted 1991]]