Heraldry of the World (HOTW or Heraldry-wiki.com; formerly NGW, for the original Dutch name Nederlandse GemeenteWapens (Dutch civic heraldry)) is an
Internet
The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices. It is a '' network of networks'' that consists of private, pub ...
-based
heraldic
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree. Armory, the best-known bran ...
resource.
Its principal project is the Internet's largest website devoted to civic
heraldry, containing comprehensive information about all kinds of
coats of arms of (local) government authorities, including countries, states, provinces, colonies, regions, districts, cities, towns, and municipalities worldwide. In addition to these, the site also has a large literature and reference list and a section on heraldic
collector items. Since 2017 also Corporate, Institutional, Military and Ecclesiastical heraldry has been added. Since 2018 the site has a new URL as heraldry-wiki.com.
The site started as a single-person private Dutch-language site on
Dutch
Dutch commonly refers to:
* Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands
* Dutch people ()
* Dutch language ()
Dutch may also refer to:
Places
* Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States
* Pennsylvania Dutch Country
People E ...
civic heraldry in 1996, and expanded rapidly to cover all countries in the world as "International civic heraldry", the present name was adopted in 2010. The main language changed to English and only the Dutch part is still largely in Dutch. The site is maintained by the webmaster, but the number of contributors is much larger. To facilitate contribution by others the site was transferred since 2010 to a wiki-environment. It still is largely a single-person effort, with 3 editors only.
Website
The total number of pages on the website is nearly 160,000 and the number of images over 253,000, making it the largest website of its kind.
A very large part of the civic heraldry images used on Wikipedia originates from the site,
[search on 'ngw' in Wikipedia commons showed 7700 arms taken from the site, March 12, 2012] which is accepted as long as the appropriate template is used.
Coat of arms
The site uses a logo based on the now obsolete arms of
Aasiaat
Aasiaat () or Ausiait, formerly Egedesminde, is a town in the Qeqertalik municipality in western Greenland, located in the heart of Aasiaat Archipelago at the southern end of Disko Bay. With a population of 3,069 as of 2020, it is Greenland's fo ...
municipality in
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
, showing a spider web, which is an appropriate symbol for a website.
See also
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Heraldry by country
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, Imperial, royal and noble ranks, rank and genealo ...
References
External links
Main SiteLiterature list
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Internet properties established in 1995
Internet resources on heraldry
Renkum
Online databases