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Fotografie + English: Romania-1390 - Romanian Coat of Arms (Taken on May 8, 2012, Nikon D300)

• The coat of arms of Romania was adopted in the Romanian Parliament on 10 September 1992.
• Central element shows a golden aquila (eagle) a cross in its beak, holding in its talons the insignia of sovereignty: a mace and a sword in its claws. It also consists of the three colors: red, yellow, and blue, which represent the colors of the national flag.
• The eagle, symbolises courage, determination, the soaring toward great heights, power, grandeur. It is to be found also in Transylvania's coat of arms.
• The shield on which it is placed is azure, symbolising the sky.
• On the bird's chest are the symbols of the historical Romanian provinces (Wallachia, Moldavia, Transylvania, Banat and Crisana) as well as two dolphins reminding of the country's Black Sea Coast.
• In the first quarter there is again Wallachia's coat of arms, an eagle or holding in its beak a golden Orthodox cross, accompanied by a golden sun on the right and a golden new moon on the left.
• In the second quarter there is Moldavia's traditional coat of arms: an auroch (type of large wild cattle) head sable with a mullet of or between its horns, a cinquefoil rose on the dexter and a waning crescent on the sinister, both argent.
• The third quarter features the traditional coat of arms of Banat and Oltenia: over waves, a golden bridge with two arched openings (symbolising Roman emperor Trajan's bridge over the Danube), wherefrom comes a golden lion holding a broadsword in its right forepaw.
• The fourth quarter shows the coat of arms of Transylvania with Maramures and Crisana: a shield parted by a narrow fesse; there is an eagle sable with golden beak coming out of the fesse, accompanied by a golden sun on the dexter and a crescent argent on the sinister; on the base, on or, there are seven crenellated towers, placed four and three.
• Also represented are the lands adjacent to the Black Sea, on azure: two dolphins affronts, head down.
• București, Bucuresti, România
• Author: Dennis Jarvis from Halifax, Canada

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