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![[City of Siġġiewi (Malta)]](../images/m/mt-09.gif)
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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007
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From the local council website:
On the 30th December 1797, after a formal request by Don Salvatore Curso, on behalf of his parishioners, Grand Master Ferdinand Von Hompesch instituted the village as a city calling it after his name, "Città Ferdinand".
Santiago Dotor, 9 February 2006
It seems that the correct current flag (and arms) is white with two red
stripes and a yellow cross fimbriated red between them.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007
A coat-of-arms, with two red stripes and a yellow cross fimbriated red between them, is shown in two websites:
![[City of Siġġiewi (Malta)]](../images/m/mt-09a.gif)
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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007
Blazon: Argent on a fess Gules a cross couped Or. Is-Siġġiewi is nicknamed Città Ferdinand so I assume this must have been the arms of a Grand Master of the Order of Malta of this name.
António Martins, 1 March 2000
Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website shows the same as in
this image. So, which is the correct coat-of-arms and flag for Is-Siggiewi? Are they mistaken, or former versions?
Santiago Dotor, 9 February 2006
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