International Federation of Vexillological Associations

 

Houston and London

September 7, 1969

The International Federation Vexillologischer companies ( FIAV ) is an international association of 55 regional, national and multinational organizations and institutions around the world. The FIAV defines itself as " a device that knowledge about flags of all types, their forms and functions, and the scientific theories and principles accumulated. " The English equivalent of the German name is the International Federation of Associations Vexillological. Fédération internationale des associations vexillologiques would be the French name, and Federación Internacional de Asociaciones Vexilológicas is the name of FIAV in Spanish. These languages ​​are the four official languages ​​of the Organization.

Provisionally FIAV was founded on September 3, 1967 during the 2nd International Congress of vexillology in Rüschlikon in Switzerland. Finally went to the public FIAV on 7 September 1969, while the 3rd International Congress of Vexillology in Boston. The FIAV has a " three-person Board ", consisting of a President, Secretary General and Secretary-General for Congresses.

International Congresses of Vexillology

Congresses were held in Muiderberg (1965 ), Zurich and Rüschlikon (1967 ), Boston ( 1969), Turin (1971 ), London ( 1973), IJsselmeer (1975 ), Washington DC (1977 ), Vienna ( 1979), Ottawa (1981 ), Oxford ( 1983), Madrid (1985 ), San Francisco ( 1987), Melbourne (1989 ), Barcelona ( 1991), Zurich (1993 ), Warsaw ( 1995), Cape Town ( 1997), Victoria ( 1999), York ( 2001), Stockholm (2003 ), Buenos Aires (2005 ), Berlin ( 2007), Yokohama (2009 ) and Alexandria ( 2011) instead.

Current members

The current members of the FIAV:

  • Asociación Argentina de Vexilología (AAV ) (Argentina )
  • Asociación Venezolana de simbología (AVS ) ( Venezuela)
  • Associació Catalana de Vexil • lologia (ACV ) (Spain )
  • The Burgee Data Archives ( BDA ) (Canada )
  • The Canadian Flag Association ( CFA) / L'Association canadienne de vexillology (Canada)
  • Centre Européen d' Études of the Belgo - Drapeaux ( CEBED ) ( Belgium)
  • Centro Italiano Studi Vessillologici ( CISV ) (Italy )
  • Centrum Flagi Ziemi ( CFZ ) / Earth Flag Centre ( Poland)
  • Česká vexilologická společnost os (CVS ) ( Czech Republic)
  • Chesapeake Bay Flag Association ( CBFA ) (United States)
  • German Society for customer Flag Association ( DGF ) ( Germany )
  • Flag Heritage Foundation ( FHF ) (United States)
  • The Flag Institute (FI ) (United Kingdom)
  • The Flag Research Center (FRC ) (United States)
  • Flag Research Centre of Sri Lanka ( FRCSL ) (Sri Lanka)
  • Flag Society of Australia Inc. ( Flags Australia) (FSA ) (Australia)
  • Flags of the World ( FOTW ) (Canada, Online association with members worldwide )
  • Fundación Centro de Estudios Culturales Interdisciplinario ( CIDEC ) (Argentina )
  • Great Waters Association of Vexillology ( GWAV ) (United States)
  • Heraldica slovenica ( HS) ( Slovenia)
  • Heraldic Club " to clover" from 1888 to Hannover eV ( HVK ) ( Germany )
  • The Heraldry and Vexillology Society of Malta ( HAVSOM ) ( Malta)
  • Croatian grboslovno i zastavoslovno društvo ( HDZG ) / Croatian Heraldic and Vexillologic Association ( Croatia)
  • Indian Vexillological Association ( IVA ) (India)
  • Instytut Heraldyczno - Weksylologiczny ( IHW ) (Poland )
  • Kevarzhe Vannielouriezh Vreizh ( KVV ) / Société Bretonne de vexillology (France)
  • Magyarországi zászló Társaság ( MZT ) (Hungary )
  • Македонско Хералдичко Здружение / Makedonsko Heraldičko Združenie / Macedonian Heraldry Society ( Macedonia)
  • Mauritius Verlag GmbH ( MBV ) ( Germany )
  • National Flag Foundation ( NFF) (United States)
  • Nederlandse Vereniging voor Vlaggenkunde ( NVVV ) (Netherlands)
  • New England Vexillological Association ( NEVA ) (United States)
  • New Zealand Flag Association ( NZFA ) (New Zealand )
  • 日本 旗 章 学 协会(JAVA) / Nihon Kishōgaku Kyōkai / Japanese Vexillological Association ( Japan)
  • Nordic Flag Society / Nordic Flag Society ( NF) / Nordisk Flaggselskap / Nordisk Flagselskab / Nordiska Flaggsällskapet / Norræna Fánafélagið / Pohjoismaiden Lippuseura (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)
  • North American Vexillological Association ( NAVA ) (Canada, United States)
  • Partioheraldikot r.y. (PH ) (Finland )
  • Polskie Towarzystwo Weksylologizne ( PTW ) (Poland )
  • Российский Центр флаговедения и геральдики ( RCVH ​​) / Rossiyskiy Tsentr flagovedeniya i geraldiki / Russian Centre of Vexillology and Heraldry (Russia)
  • Swiss Society of flags and flag customer (SSV ) / Société Suisse de Vexillology / Società Svizzera di Vessillologia ( Switzerland )
  • Sociedad Española de Vexilología (ETS ) (Spain )
  • Societas Belgica Vexillologica (SCC ) ( Belgium)
  • Societatea de Genealogy, Heráldica şi Arhivistică " Paul Gore " ( SGHAPG ) ( Moldova)
  • Societatea Română de Vexilologie (SRV ) (Romania )
  • Société Française de vexillology (SFV ) (France )
  • Southern African Vexillological Association ( SAVA ) (Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe)
  • საქართველოს პარლამენტთან არსებული ჰერალდიკის სახელმწიფო საბჭო / State Council of Heraldry at the Parliament of Georgia ( SCHG ) Georgia
  • Stichting Nederland Vlaggenmuseum (SVN ) (Netherlands)
  • Stichting Vlaggenparade Rotterdam ( sVpr ) (Netherlands)
  • Středisko vexilologických informací ( SVI ) / Flag Data Centre (Czech Republic)
  • Tumbling Waters Museum of Flags ( TWMF ) (United States)
  • Українсьҝе Геральдичне Товариство (UHT) / Ukrayins'ke Heral'dychne Tovarystvo / The Ukrainian Heraldry Society ( Ukraine)
  • Västra Sveriges Heraldiska Sällskap ( VSHS ) (Sweden)
  • Vexillological Association of the State of Texas ( VAST ) (United States)
  • World Vexillological Research Institute ( WVRI ) ( Germany )

Flag

The FIAV flag was originally designed by Klaes Sierksma and easily changed by the Organizing Committee of the 2nd International Congress of vexillology. The flag was introduced on 3 September 1967. The blue color is defined as PMS U293 and the yellow color is defined as PMS U123. Flags for the three officers were approved in 1999, after they were designed by the former FIAV President William Crampton. All FIAV flags were easily changed by the Twentieth Session of the General Assembly FIAV in Berlin in 2007.

Board of Directors

The current members of FIAV Management Board are:

  • Michel R. Lupant (President)
  • Charles A. Spain, Jr. ( Secretary General)
  • Graham Bartram ( Secretary-General for Congresses )
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