Municipality of Deir el Qamar (Chouf District, Mount Lebanon Governorate, Lebanon)

دير القمر

Last modified: 2020-08-01 by ian macdonald
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image by Tomislav Šipek, 25 June 2020

• Introduction
• Coat of Arms
• Former Flag

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According to the municipal website, the town of Deir el Qamar was a capital of the Maanid and early Chehab emirs.
Eugene Ipavec, 20 May 2007

The flag of Deir el Qamar is white with logo.
https://www.facebook.com/DeirElQamarMunicipality/photos/a.1196254750441440/2033171360083104/?type=3&theater
Tomislav Šipek, 25 June 2020

image by Vincent Morley

Deir el Kamar in 1830 used red flag with superimposed green cross.
Source: Flaggenmiteilung 84, Crux Australis 50
Jaume Ollé, 13 May 2003

image adapted from municipal site, 16 Mar 2012

The municipal coat of arms contains the same naturalistically-rendered carnation reported by [Nehmé to have been on the Rebels' and Kaïssites' flags (also supposed to have been on the flag of the Maanid Emirate) and a lion similar to that on the Lamaïte flag.
Eugene Ipavec, 20 May 2007