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![[Vojkovice flag]](../images/c/cz-fm-vo.gif)
by Blas Delgado Ortiz, 9 May 2001, after image by Peter Exner
There are four cities with this name in different okres. This one is
from Exner's first website, and I missed the okres.
Blas Delgado Ortiz, 9 May 2001
It looks like a warhaft flag; the checky yellow/black band points at
Silesia; I'd go for Vojkovice in Frýdek-Místek okres.
Jarig Bakker, 9 May 2001
Vojkovice "with sabres in flag" is really situated in district Frýdek
- Místek - in its Silesian (Eastern) part. Vojkovice has 500 inhabitants.
The village came into existence ca. 1500. It was a part of Frýdek estate.
The name Vojkovice comes probably from certain Vojtech, perhaps a village
founder. People of Vojkovice were weavers and farmers, but it was
one special source of money - they PUSHED the coaches of merchants, travelling
to Frýdek or to Tešín (Cieszyn), a local centre of former dukedom.(The
village is situated in a deep valley )
Ales Krizan, 27 Aug 2001
![[Vojkovice Coat of Arms]](../images/c/cz-fm)vo.jpg)
image from this site,
spotted by Ales Krizan, 27 Aug 2001
Description of the Arms: Vert over Base Azure a checquy Fess of threĕ?)
rows Or and Sable. Over the fess two crossed Sabres Or over a Fleur-de-lys
Argent. (Let's suppose that the checquy fess is a "fess in base"
or "erniedrigte Balken" or "dwarsbalk verlaagd")
Ales Krizan, 27 Aug 2001