I understand your coat of arms represents different regions of Czechia: Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.

I was wondering why is the Bohemian lion repeated twice in the shield? Is there any specific reason for it?

by RhodokFan

24 comments

  1. Because we didn’t manage to subjugate a 3rd lesser nation yet. It’s a placeholder (possibly for Královec) 😎

  2. One is for historic land (Bohemia), second one is for the Czech Republic or Czechia.

  3. They are compensating for their inferiority to the glorious land of Moravia and the somewhat decent land of Czech Silesia

  5. The second lion is keeping the Moravian and Silesian eagles at bay so they don’t declare independent Moravastán while the first lion is partying.

  7. Moravia and Silesia were fiefdoms of Bohemia and Bohemian lion was used as a symbol for Czech lands as a whole. By the heraldic rules the main symbol is in the first and forth field and lesser symbols in the second and third field.

  8. It’s the Bohemians asserting dominance over Moravians and Silesians.

  9. The lion represents both Bohemia proper and the whole country (historically also called Bohemia). That’s why there’s just the lion on the small CoA.

  10. That’s just the way you do it when you want to represent more than one coat of arms on a bigget coat of arms. They couldn’t split it three ways, that would look silly. Countries that were made up of two titles also had their CoA split into four squares, and each of the subdivisions got two squares.

  11. At school they taught us that the first one represents Bohemia and the second one represents Czechia as a whole.

  12. Because it is development from middle coat of arms of 1st Czechoslovak republic, where there were only Bohemia and Slovakia represented equaly. (big coat of arms also existed, where all 5 administrative lands were represented)

  13. one signifies Bohemia, one signifies Czechia as whole.

  14. Unpopular opinion: Second czech lion represents the capital city of Prague, sometimes called country inside a country, often despised by the rest of the nation but very important at the same time.

  15. Honestly… no fucking clue, my guess would be that after great moravia the country was always bohemia centered?

  16. This will be a terrible explanation but I remember asking my teacher back at primary school why were there 2 same lions. The response: The lion represents Czechia, which is the largest part of the Czech Republic, thus having 2 lions. The two eagles each represent a different “sector” of the Czech Republic, like Czechia, but they are smaller in size, thus each having only “one” part of the shield. I think the black one is for Silesia and the squary one is for Moravia but I am not really sure anymore. It may be utter gibberish but hey, it satisfied my curious needs back then 🙂 It’s interesting that every school taught it a little bit different.

  17. I was taught at school that there are two bohemian lions because Bohemia is bigger than Moravia and Salesia. But who knows what is really true

  20. The official explanation is that one of the lions is for Bohemia, and the other for Czech Republic as a whole.

    Unofficial, it’s to remind us Moravians and Silesians of their subjugation. I am only mostly joking.

  21. Petr Pavel is the first politicial I would follow even to hell

    Sorry Isn bit drunka 😸

  22. Look at that sexy black bird💛🖤. Not like that Croatian cock.

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