For example, there are lions on the coat of arms of Britain or Norway, but there are no lions there.
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Technically, lions lived in Greece and the Balkans until relatively recently. The European lion went extinct but iirc there were around during archaic Greece. There’s some stories about lions in Greek mythology. But they never inhabited Western or Northern Europe.
I think the three lions of the English coat are from the lions that were given to an English king as a gift. Historians suspect that they could have been cheetahs really but the Brits had obviously never seen a lion before. They certainly don’t look like a lion in the heraldry but more of a smaller big cat species. Idk about the other coats of arms
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