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![[Flag of Aure]](../images/n/no-15-76.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 16 February 2017
Granted on 21 December 2005
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On 1 January 2006 the two municipalities of Aure and Tustna in Møre og Romsdal county merged to form a new municipality under the name of Aure. As a consequence, the flags and arms of the two former municipalities are now obsolete and there is a new flag for the new municipality.
The flag and arms of the new municipality of Aure were approved by Royal
resolution dated 21 December 2005, following debate in the two merging
municipalities over the new name and symbols. In a compromise decision one
contributed with the name while the other contributed the basis for the flag
and arms, altered only in a change of colour of the main charge. In the
royal resolution the flag of the (new) municipality of Aure is defined as:
On blue a white klipfish (Norwegian: "I blått en hvit klippfisk").
The flag is thus a development of that originally designed by Jarle Skuseth for
Tustna.
Jan Oskar Engene, 22 July 2006
![[COA of Aure]](../images/n/no)15-76.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 November 2015
![[Flag of former municipality of Aure]](../images/n/no-15-69.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 16 February 2017
The flag and arms of the former municipality of Aure were approved by Royal
resolution of 5. April 1991. According to the official description the flag
was: On red two addorsed eagle’s heads (Norwegian: "I rødt to adosserte gule
ørnehoder"). The flag and arms were designed by Even Skoglund. The eagle was
chosen because as an emblem of a costal community and because the
municipality had a good number of them.
Jan Oskar Engene, 22 July 2006
Administrative center of former municipality was Gullstein.
Tomislav Šipek, 11 November 2015
![[COA of Aure]](../images/n/no)15-69.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek,
11
November 2015
![[Flag of former municipality of Tustna]](../images/n/no-15-72.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek,
16 February 2017
The flag and arms of the former municipality of Tustna were approved by
Royal resolution dated 7. October 1988. According to the official
description the flag was: On blue a yellow klipfish (Norwegian: "I blått en
gul klippfisk"). A klipfish is a split and salted dried fish, usually cod.
Traditionally the fish spread out on rock to sun dry and this gives the
klipfish its symmetrical shape (as opposed to the stockfish, see the flag of
Vestvågøy
Jan Oskar Engene, 22 July 2006
![[COA of Aure]](../images/n/no)15-72.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 11 November 2015
Engene, Jan Oskar; Kommunesammenslutning gir nye flagg (New flags following municipal); Nordisk flagkontakt / Nordisk Flaggkontakt [nfk] 42 (2006), pp. 50-55
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1991-03-22-185?q=flagg (for
old Aure)
https://lovdata.no/dokument/OV/forskrift/1988-10-07-797?q=flagg (for
Tustna)
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Tomislav Šipek, 11 November 2015