Coat of arms of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship

The coat of arms of the Lesser Poland Voivodeship is a crowned white eagle in the red field with a golden band ending with a three-leafed triangle over the wings, with the same beak, tongue, and claws. The crown on the head of the eagle: gothic, open.
The coat of arms was established by a resolution of the Voivodship Sejm on 24 May 1999.
The authors of the coat of arms are Wojciech Drelicharz and Zenon Piech from the Department of History Auxiliary Sciences of the Jagiellonian University. The artwork was prepared by Barbara Widłak.
This coat of arms refers to the coat of arms of the Cracow Voivodeship of the First Republic of Poland, which was created already during the reign of Casimir III the Great in the 14th century. The stylization of the eagle refers to the Renaissance form when the coat of arms of the voivodeship began to be distinguished from the state one.
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Cities and towns.
Eagle of Lesser Poland on coats of arms of Polish cities and towns: