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Zebbug changed its flag and the new flag is in HAVSOM 2 [possibly [itb], issue no. 2?].
Jaume Ollé, 5 March 2000
The heraldic device standing for Rohan (blazoned Gules nine mascles Or) on the bottom fly of the Société d'Emulation des Côtes-du-Nord flag is the same as the arms of the current maltese city of Żebbuġ in Malta island (there is another Żebbuġ in Gozo). This city's nickname, given afer a Grand Master of the Order, is Città Rohan. Perhaps Rohan was originally a nobility estate in Brittany and its lord become Master of the Malta Order, taking there his coat-of-arms, which later was given to his (nick)namesake city.
António Martins, 24 October 2002
The lozenge is a mascle, which is the Rohan family characteristic charge.
Ivan Sache, 27 October 2002
Pascal Gross' Atlas Géographique Mondial website, with good images of Maltese local flags reported by Thomas Borg (a Maltese from Mellieha), shows the same flag but with a blue top stripe, bordered white, charged with a white dove carrying an olive branch (and with more squarish mascles, image here). Presumably this is the current Zebbug flag.
Ralf Hartemink's International Civic Heraldry website shows both coats-of-arms and says "The arms show a canting olive branch (zebbug=olive) above the arms of Grand Master de Rohan". So it seems that, at some point, the Zebbug arms was modified with the addition of that chief and the flag was modified accordingly.
Santiago Dotor, 10 March 2006
![[Former Flag, City of Żebbuġ (Malta Island, Malta)]](../images/m/mt-07.gif)
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image by Dirk Schönberger, exported to GIF by António Martins, 28 October 2002
Blazon: Gules nine mascles Or.
António Martins, 24 October 2002
