Interpretation of The Three Hills
The three green hills are representing mountain ranges (Tátra, Mátra, Fátra) (strictly in this order) as written in István Werbőczy's Tripartitium, but this is not explained there. The first explanation of the hills are from a Portuguese Jesuit Antonius Macedo in his work Divi Tutelares... from 1687, writing: "mons essurgit numero triplex qui tres praecipuos eiusdem regni monti significant", but not naming them. Later in the 18th century, two other Jesuits, József Koller in Cerographia and Samuel Timon in Imago Novae Hungariae state that "Alteram scuti partem Montes Regni praecipui, iique summi insigniunt. Nomen illis: Tatra, Matra, Fatra vulgare passim (...) atque omnium est cognitum". Timon adds that the double cross is an ancient symbol of the Kingdom of Hungary to which the three hills were connected.
Another not-so-well-known theory for the triple hills is that it symbolizes the hills of Calvary (Golgotha), where Jesus was crucified.
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