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Village of Ix-Xewkija (Gozo Island, Malta)

Xewkija, Showkiya, Xeuchia

3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 19 January 2007

Description
Banner of Arms
Possible Former Flag

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Coat-of-Arms of Ix-Xewkija at the Local Council website

Description

The coat-of-arms of Ix-Xewkija is [blazon] Or a fess Gules between two thistles Proper.
António Martins, 1 March 2000

The Ix-Xewkija local council website shows a picture of the banner-of-arms flag in this picture of the first elected council (1994-1996). However, several much more recent photographs in this webpage show a local flag which is not a banner of the arms but a white flag with the (shield-shaped) arms on it.

Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website explains, "Xewkija has thorns on its arms as Xewkija comes from xewk which means thorns".
Santiago Dotor, 16 March 2006

Banner of Arms

3:5 image by Dirk Schönberger, 28 October 2002

Possible Former Flag

3:5 image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 8 June 2007

The village of Ix-Xewkija in Gozo island flies the pre-1943 flag of Malta defaced with a Maltese cross counterchanged. Source: Strickland 1999 [str99].
Ivan Sache, 28 February 2000

If the yellow-with-red-stripe-and-two-thistles flag was already in use in 1994, when was this possible former flag used?
Santiago Dotor, 16 March 2006