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![[Flag of Tromsø]](../images/n/no-19-02.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015
Here is flag of Tromsø.
Sources:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Troms%C3%B8_r%C3%A5dhus.JPG
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1983-07-22-1290?q=flagg
Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015
![[Flag of Tromsø]](../images/n/no-19-02v.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 25 February 2017
Here is 1:1 variant of Tromsø flag.
Source:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/356277020495329850/
http://foto.digitalarkivet.no
Tomislav Šipek, 11 November 2015
image by Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 May 2017
Blue with white reindeer passant at hoist. I spotted this flag on 20 April
2017 in front of the town hall.
Klaus-Michael Schneider, 12 May 2017
![[Flag of Haugesund]](../images/n/no)19-02.png)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 22 October 2015
Tromsø arms is blazoned in Norwegian: I blått en gående sølv rein. In English
that would make it: Azure a reindeer passant argent.
It was approved by the royal resolution of 22 July 1983. [c2j87] also noted that the same design
was previously approved for the city as it was back then, by the Ministry of
Interior on 24 September 1941. (I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere, but this
seems to indicate that while Norway was occupied and king was abroad, the
Ministry of Interior "took" the office of approving municipal symbols.)
The design was drawn by Hallvard Trætenberg.
The idea for the Tromsø arms was presented by A. T. Kaltenborn in the Norsk
Folkekalender 1855, and the coat of arms was first used in connection with the
Industry and Crafts Exhibition in Tromsø in 1870. In the use the background
colour changed between blue and red, or even showing a natural landscape.
Although reindeer played little or none role in the city, it was the
administrative center of the vast surrounding areas of reindeer herding in
the northern Norway. When no other northern Norwegian city had any arms, it was
not unusual that such typical northern-Norwegian change was chosen nevertheless.
[c2j87] mentions also that former community of
Tromsøysund, which was incorporated in the city of Tromsø in 1964, got its arms
approved by the royal resolution of 9 April 1954 after a drawing of Sverre
Mack helped by Hallvard Trætenberg.: på rød bunn et tomastet gull skip. - I.e.
Gules a two-masted ship or. It is mentioned that this was the first
"herredsvåpen" approved in Norway (I am not sure if that means the first
non-urban municipality arms, or if it refers to some other administrative
division type or some such.
The last is shown (cropped) at
http://www.itromso.no/nyheter/article413320.ece?index=40
Željko Heimer, 24 October 2015
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