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![[Village of Ta'Xbiex (Gozo/Ghawdex Island, Malta)]](../images/m/mt-64.gif)
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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007
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The coat-of-arms of Ix-Xewkija is [blazon] Or a fess Gules between two thistles Proper.
António Martins, 1 March 2000
The Ix-Xewkija local council website shows a picture of the banner-of-arms flag in this picture of the first elected council (1994-1996). However, several much more recent photographs in this webpage show a local flag which is not a banner of the arms but a white flag with the (shield-shaped) arms on it.
Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website explains, "Xewkija has thorns on its arms as Xewkija comes from xewk which means thorns".
Santiago Dotor, 16 March 2006
![[Village of Ta'Xbiex (Gozo/Ghawdex Island, Malta)]](../images/m/mt-64b.gif)
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image by Dirk Schönberger, 28 October 2002
![[Possible Former Flag, Village of Xewkija (Gozo/Ghawdex Island, Malta)]](../images/m/mt-64_o.gif)
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image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 June 2007
The village of Ix-Xewkija in Gozo island flies the pre-1943 flag of Malta defaced with a Maltese cross counterchanged. Source: Strickland 1999 [str99].
Ivan Sache, 28 February 2000
If the yellow-with-red-stripe-and-two-thistles flag was already in use in 1994, when was this possible former flag used?
Santiago Dotor, 16 March 2006
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