Vievis (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Last modified: 2014-04-27 by zoltán horváth
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image by Virginijus Misiunas, 23 February 2010

• Overview

See also:

• Lithuania
• Vilnius County
• Elektrenai Municipality

Overview

Vievis (Elektrenai municipality) - on a blue field a golden printing-press. Flag proportions 10:13, free edges bordered with narrow golden stripe, fringe is golden, finial is a golden knob with two rings and golden bands. The charge represents the printing house that worked there in 1611-1660: it was one of earliest printing houses in Lithuania, notable as the important point of development of literary of the Belorussian language and of Orthodox religious literature.
Virginijus Misiunas, 23 February 2010