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Village of Ix-Xgħajra (Malta)

Last modified: 2013-12-14 by rob raeside
Keywords: malta | xghajra | stripes: 3 (white) | stripes: wavy (white-blue) | castle (yellow) | battery (yellow) | wheat ears: 3 (yellow) |
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[Village of Xghajra (Malta)] 3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007



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According to Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website:

The new arms represent the beginning of the town, because the town started after the English government in the beginning of the Second World War built a battery in what is now Ix-Xgħajra. The people working there started living round this battery and thus a small hamlet was formed, which eventually evolved into a small town.
This photograph in the Ix-Xgħajra local council website shows a local flag flying from the Local Council Offices, situated in the Batteria delle Grazie, which is not a banner of the arms but a white flag with the (shield-shaped) arms on it.
Santiago Dotor, 10 and 17 March 2006

Banner of Arms

[Village of Xghajra (Malta)] 3:5 image by Pascal Gross, 10 March 2006


Former Flag

[Former Flag, Village of Xghajra (Malta)] 3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 2 June 2007

Ix-Xgħajra is in process to change its flag — perhaps the process is already ended but I don't have news.
Jaume Ollé
, 5 March 2000

Blazon: Azure three ears of wheat Or. According to Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website:

The old arms with the wheat ears are canting, as xghajra is a Maltese word for grain.

Santiago Dotor, 10 March 2006

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