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08 June 2008 16:05
 

http://flagspot.net/images/m/mg)ant.gif

The Capital of Madagascar Antananarivo had arms created in 1950. The Zebu-head symbolises the Malagasy people and the Fleur-de-Lis the French. The Motto translates as "Thousand men will not die in one day".

I have no information on any arms for Addis Abeba the Capital of Ethiopia.

 
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10 June 2008 12:44
 

Cairo the Capital of Egypt doesn’t have arms as such, but the City has a flag:

http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/e/eg-cair.gif

Source: Jaume Ollé, Flags of the World.

 
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11 June 2008 15:02
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11 June 2008 15:06
 

Beirut (Lebanon):

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Beyrouth_blason2.jpg

These arms is probably from the French times.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/BlasonBeyrouth3.jpg

Supposedly the modern arms.

 
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11 June 2008 15:18
 

Marcus K;59161 wrote:

Beirut (Lebanon):

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/53/BlasonBeyrouth3.jpg

Supposedly the modern arms.


The Arabic script on the chief says Madina(t) Bayrut, "City of Beirut."

 
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11 June 2008 15:32
 

Thanks Joe for the translation.

 
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12 June 2008 03:09
 

I like Jerusalem a lot, though I thought it was on a white field…so be it.

I also like the old Beirut arms, but not the modern ones so much.

 
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14 June 2008 18:26
 

For Damascus the Capital of Syria I ahve only got the Flag of the Damascus Province, picture from Flags of the World.

http://flagspot.net/images/s/sy-di.gif

 

I have no information as regarding any emblems of Baghdad the Iraqi Capital neither of Amman (Jordan) or Teheran (Iran).

 
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25 June 2008 06:12
 

Marcus K;59068 wrote:

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http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/5894/nairobieg7.jpg

Nairobi (Kenya). The Motto is: Consilio Fide Vigilantia.


The full arms of the City of Nairobi includes two Crested Cranes as supporters. The motto has also been changed into Swahili with roughtly the same meaning as the Latin One. Pictures sent to me by Sunil Saigal, who had taken the Photos on to spot.

 

http://img53.imageshack.us/img53/5087/1nairobicq7.jpg

A newly painted version, lacking the Green parts on the Mantling.

 

http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/2456/2nairobifo1.jpg

An older more weatherbitten version.

 
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25 June 2008 06:33
 

Arms of the Capital of the Republic of Georgia Tbilisi (formerly also known av Tiflis).

http://images.geraldika.ru/140/tbilisi_city_emblema.gif

The Current emblem.

 

Here you can see the purposal for new arms of the City http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Georgia/arms_tb.htm

 

http://www.ngw.nl/int/oveur/images/tbilisir.jpg

The Second arms used during the Russian Empire. It denotes the joining of the Christian Nations of Russia and Georgia to overcome the Muslim Ottomans and Persians. The Lionheads is from the State emblem of Persia. The same arms but crowned with a Imperial Crown and surrounded by a Wreath of Oak, was used by the Governorate of Tiflis.

 

http://www.ngw.nl/int/oveur/images/tblisi.jpg

First arms during the Russian Empire. In chief the arms of the Imertinsky Governorate, which later was splitt into several smaller Governorates like Tiflis.

 
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28 June 2008 09:06
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28 June 2008 09:24
 

http://public.carnet.hr/fame/images/cs)cg-po.gif

Arms of Podgorica, capital of Montenegro. Picture from http://public.carnet.hr/fame/

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Prishtina-Kosovo.jpg

"Arms" of Prishtina (Kosovo).

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Coat_of_Arms_of_Dushanbe.png

Arms of Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan.

 

From heraldicum.ru the arms of Ashgabat (formerly translitterated as Ashkhabad which is the Russian name), capital of Turkmenistan:

 

http://img501.imageshack.us/img501/526/ashabatph6.gif

Approved on 22 October 1908, It is not know to me if it is used today. Apart from the external ornaments it is identical with the arms approved in 1890 for the Transcaspian Region.

 
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28 June 2008 14:36
 

Marcus K;59829 wrote:

Arms of the Capital of the Republic of Georgia Tbilisi (formerly also known av Tiflis).

Here you can see the purposal for new arms of the City http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Georgia/arms_tb.htm

http://www.ngw.nl/int/oveur/images/tbilisir.jpg

The Second arms used during the Russian Empire.


I was expecting to see some horrid post-commie nastiness that attempted to be both modern and vaguely heraldic (as seems to be so fashionable in Canada, at least among the poorly-educated), but the proposed arms are actually excellent.

 
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28 June 2008 21:56
 

I’m not sure it makes much difference what I think of other people’s civic arms, but I must say how much I like the arms & flags of Podgorica, Montenegro. Clean, painfully simple, unique, memorable.