Coat o airms o Poland

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Design[eedit | eedit soorce]

Legal basis[eedit | eedit soorce]


Legislation concernin the naitional seembols is far frae perfect. The Coat o Airms Act haes been amendit several times an refers extensively tae executive ordinances, some o which hae niver been issued. Mairower, the Act contains errors, omissions an inconsistencies which make the law confusin, open tae various interpretations an aften no follaed in practice.[3]

Graphic design[eedit | eedit soorce]




The chairge is placed in an escutcheon (shield) o the Modren French type. It is a nearly rectangular upricht isosceles trapezoid, roondit at the bottom, whose upper base is slichtly langer than the lawer ane, frae the middle o which extends downwards a pointed tip. Although the shield is an integral pairt o the coat o airms, Polish law stipulates, in certain cases, tae ae uise the chairge athoot the escutcheon. The shades o the principal tinctures, white (Argent) an red (Gules), which are the naitional colors o Poland, are specified as coördinates in the CIE 1976 color space.

Legend[eedit | eedit soorce]

The White Eagle emblem oreeginatit when Poland's legendary foonder Lech saw a white eagle's nest. When he leukit at the bird, a ray o sunshine frae the red settin sun fell on its wings, so they appeared tipped wi gold, the rest o the eagle wis pure white. He wis delichtit an decidit tae settle there an placed the eagle on his emblem. He an aa named the place Gniezdno (currently Gniezno) frae the Polish wird gniazdo (nest).

This tale coud be considered as an allusion tae the legend o the ceety o Rome which wis foondit bi Romulus an Remus. Auspicium is the ancient rite o observin birds o prey flights in order tae get support o gods for future arranged actions. A less romantic version assumes that Poland adoptit the emblem frae Roman Empire (like mony ither European kintras).

References[eedit | eedit soorce]

  1. 1.0 1.1 (Pols) Konstytucja Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej [(Inglis) Constitution of the Republic of Poland], Dz.U. 1997 nr 78 poz. 483
  3. (Pols) Informacja o wynikach kontroli używania symboli państwowych przez organy administracji publicznej (PDF), Warsaw: Supreme Chamber of Control (NIK), 2005, archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-27