Some think it may resemble the Roman Fasces, a standard of bound sticks with an ax.

May 29 - Albanian fascist leader Tefik Mborja is appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations.

On May 29, 1939 he was appointed as member of the Italian Chamber of Fasces and Corporations as well as the Central Council of Corporative Economy.

The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Argent, between two Laurel Branches Proper in pale Fasces Gules, ribboned Or and double bladed Proper topped with a Roman Helmet Or crested Gules.

He was inspired by Mussolini's use of the fasces (a symbol of fascism), and created a small, militant extreme-right group called the Republican Fasces (or Separatist Fasces) associated with La Nation.

However, as I was not permitted to report Caesar's assassination in the regular way, it has at least afforded me rare satisfaction to translate the following able account of it from the original Latin of the Roman Daily Evening Fasces of that date--second edition: