

The coat of arms was rather an emblem, faithful to the Communist pattern: a landscape (depicting a rising sun, a tractor and an oil drill) surrounded by stocks of wheat tied together with a cloth in the colors of the national flag.

The coat of arms had three versions: lesser, middle (with supporters and motto), and greater (the middle arms on a red mantle lined with ermine).Īfter 1948, the Communist authorities changed both the flag and the coat of arms. The aquila was placed on a blue shield, capped with the Steel Crown. The shield was placed on the chest of a golden crossed and crowned aquila, as a symbol of the Latinity of the Romanians. Then the coat of arms of Transylvania was placed in the fourth quarter, with the Turul replaced by a black aquila, the third quarter depicted the joined coats of arms of Banat and Oltenia (the bridge of Apollodorus of Damascus and a golden lion respectively), and the coat of arms of Dobruja was placed in an insertion. The coat of arms remained unchanged until 1922, after World War I, when Transylvania was united with the Kingdom of Romania. After 1872, the coat of arms included the symbol of southern Bessarabia (after 1877, of Dobruja), two dolphins, in the fourth quarter and the one of Oltenia, a golden lion, in the third quarter on the shield the Steel Crown was placed, as a symbol of sovereignty and independence, after the Romanian War of Independence. In 1866, after Carol I was elected Prince of Romania, the shield was divided into quarters: in the first and fourth an eagle was depicted, and in the second and third the aurochs above the shield the arms of the reigning Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen family was placed. Until 1866, there were many variants of the coat of arms, regarding the background color and the number of times the two main elements where represented. Then the two heraldic symbols, the golden aquila and the aurochs, were officially juxtaposed. The idea behind the design of the coat of arms of Romania dates from 1859, when the two Romanian countries, Wallachia and Moldavia, united under Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza. The coat of arms was augmented on 11 July 2016 to add a representation of the Steel Crown of Romania. It also consists of the three colors (red, yellow, and blue) which represent the colors of the national flag. As a central element, it shows a golden aquila holding a cross in its beak, and a mace and a sword in its claws. It is based on the Lesser Coat of Arms of the Kingdom of Romania (used between 19), redesigned by Victor Dima. The coat of arms of Romania was adopted in the Romanian Parliament on 10 September 1992 as a representative coat of arms for Romania. On the national currency, in classrooms, in the Parliament, on state buildings, on passports, on ID cards, in the header of the official documents (including diplomas)

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