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Alba County (Romania)

Judeţul Alba

Last modified: 2022-03-12 by rob raeside
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[Alba County flag, Romania] image by Jose Antonio Jimenez, 20 March 2013



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County of Alba has 78 local governments - 4 municipalities, 7 towns, and 67 communes.
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Description of the Flag

On the official Alba County page, you can see a flag, red and white divided with the shield next to the hoist:

"The flag of Alba County has a red background (PANTONE RED; C0, M100, Y100, K0) with a triangular insertion (PANETONE TRANS.WHITE; C0, M0, Y0, K0) and the county's coat of arms in the middle of the white triangle. Proportion between width and length is 2:3. The white triangle has 2 equal sides; the third side is leaned at 45 degrees. The height of the coat of arms is 1/4 of the flag's width and it is placed at 1/10 of the flag's width from the left and upper sides."
Jose Antonio Jimenez, 20 March 2013

The current flag was adopted sometime after 2010, and is diagonally divided white over red. The former flag was vertically divided yellow and blue. 
https://judetul-alba.ro/incarcari/2021/09/106-H-aprobare-Statutul-Judetului-Alba_compressed.pdf 
Valentin Poposki
, 13 February 2022


Older Flag

[Alba County flag, Romania] image by István Molnár, 15 June 2006

The flag is vertically divided yellow and blue, with the county coat of arms centred. I have seen this flag in Alba Iulia city on the County Hall.
http://www.cjalba.ro/
István Molnár, 15 June 2006


Vertical Tribar Flag

[Alba County flag, Romania] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022

The significance of this flag with three vertical stripes white-red-white on a page for Harghita County is uncertain. It uses the Alba coat of arms.
http://veche.judetulharghita.ro/upload/gallery/3c0e7f98-4eb4-4e8b-b6d3-6f0306099ae8/d8219ff9-40c9-4800-9294-1b3ff468d5a6/steaguri-judetul-alba/steaguri-judetul-alba.jpg
Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022


Coat of Arms

[Alba County arms, Romania] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022

You can see the Coat of Arms of Alba County here: https://judetul-alba.ro/incarcari/2021/09/106-H-aprobare-Statutul-Judetului-Alba_compressed.pdf. It consists of a shield vertically divided, the dexter field blue with a Roman soldier in armour (white) carrying a black shield with the letters V RR on it. The sinister half is divided horizontally, the upper part red, with a silver castle gate, an aurochs head, and sun, moon, and star symbols (silver); the lower half yellow, with an oval disk bearing a pine tree, and around written SIGULLU PRAEFACTOREI AURARIEI GEMINE.

The current coat of arms of the County of Alba was adopted in 1993. There was counter proposal that lead to 20 years of misunderstanding what should be on the county coat of arms. That results with three more proposals - one in 2013, and two more in 2014, but the coat of arms stays as it was adopted in 1993. From the previous coat of arms, are known the arms from the era between two World Wars and the arms from the socialist era adopted in 1968 (or 1972).
Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022

Version of arms 1968-1972

[Alba County arms, Romania] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022

Version of arms 1930s

[Alba County arms, Romania] image located by Valentin Poposki, 13 February 2022