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Coat of arms of Dorotea Municipality

Coat of arms of Dorotea Municipality

Swedish blazon

I fält av guld en röd björn med blå tunga med blå naglar och däröver en röd ginstam belagd med en krona av guld.

Designers

  • Vladimir A. Sagerlund

Registration and history

  • 23 November 1945: Royal confirmation on
  • 7 April 1989: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration

Heraldic elements

The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.

  • escutcheon
  • field
  • Or
  • Gules
  • Azure
  • chief
  • bear
  • unpartitioned
  • coronet

Sources and image use

Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata

Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0

Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund

Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.

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