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![[flag of Caracui]](../images/m/md-carac.gif)
image by Ivan Sache, 10 September 2020
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The village of Caracui (2,316 inhabitants in 2014) is located 25 km south of
Hîncești (the district capital) and 60 km south-west of Chișinău (the national
capital).
The flag and arms of Caracui are prescribed by Presidential
Decree No. 890 issued on 21 September 2018 and published on 28 September 2018 in
the Moldovan official gazette, No. 366-376, Article 607.
Article 1.
The coat of arms and flag of the village of Caracui, as approved by Decision No.
9.10 issued on 22 August 2018 by the Village Council, shall be registered into
the General Armorial of the Republic of Moldova.
Appendix 1. Coat of arms
Or, two pheasants (Phasianus colchicus) proper facing each other,
standing on a shield of arms of the Balş family (Gules, a seven-rays star
argent). A chief gules an oxen's head or. The shield surmounted by a village
crown.
Appendix 2. Flag
A square yellow canvas charged in the center
with two pheasants proper facing each other standing on the shield of arms of
the Balş family (Gules, a seven-rays star argent).
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=107064&lang=ro (Romanian)
https://www.legis.md/cautare/getResults?doc_id=107064&lang=ru (Russian)
The symbols were elaborated by the historian Silviu Andrieș-Tabac and the
painter Iurie Caminschi.
Ivan Sache, 10 September
2020