Berloz (Municipality, Province of Liège, Belgium)

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Municipal flag of Berloz - Image by Arnaud Leroy, 14 February 2006

• Presentation of Berloz
• Municipal flag of Berloz

See also:

• Belgium
• Province of Liège: Municipal flags
• Belgium: Municipal flags

Presentation of Berloz

The municipality of Berloz (2,813 inhabitants on 1 January 2007; 1,449 ha) is located in the north of the province of Liège, on the border with Flanders. The municipality of Berloz is made since 1976 of the former municipalities of Berloz, Corswarem and Rosoux-Crenwick. The Corswarem family is a famous Belgian noble family.

Ivan Sache, 14 February 2006

Municipal flag of Berloz

The municipal flag of Berloz is horizontally divided yellow-red-yellow-red-yellow.
According to Armoiries communales en Belgique. Communes wallonnes, bruxelloises et germanophones, this flag was proposed by the of Heraldry and Vexillology Council of the French Community, with the following description:
Cinq laizes longitudinales alternativement jaunes et rouges.
The flag is a banner of the arms of the Berloo family, known since the Middle Ages, D'or aux deux fasces de geules (Or two fesses gules).

Arnaud Leroy, Pascal Vagnat & Ivan Sache, 14 February 2006