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Municipality : [[Varėna]] | Municipality : [[Varėna]] | ||
[[File:valkinin.jpg|center]] | [[File:valkinin.jpg|center|Coat of arms (crest) of {{PAGENAME}}]] | ||
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===Origin/meaning=== | |||
Valkininkai received city rights from Stanislaus Augustus on June 26, 1792. At the same day he granted the new city the use of a golden lion on a red (round) shield. The lion supposedly symbolised strength, pride and nobleness. | Valkininkai received city rights from Stanislaus Augustus on June 26, 1792. At the same day he granted the new city the use of a golden lion on a red (round) shield. The lion supposedly symbolised strength, pride and nobleness. | ||
In 1793 the arms were abolished, only to be regranted on March 30, 1993. | In 1793 the arms were abolished, only to be regranted on March 30, 1993. | ||
The sinister faced position of the lion is most likely the consequence of a clerk's heraldic illiteracy: that was very usual for the state chancellery of 1790s. Anyway, the arms became historic, and it was thus decided in modern times not to "correct" it. | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Literature]] : Rimsa, 1998 | [[Civic Heraldry Literature - Lithuania|'''Literature''']]: Rimsa, 1998 | ||
[[Category:Lithuanian Villages]] | [[Category:Lithuanian Villages]] | ||
[[Category:Alytus]] | [[Category:Alytus]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1993]] | [[Category:Granted 1993]] | ||