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Coat of Arms
by Zeljko Heimer, 16 May 2004
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The community fo Čelić (C<elic/) is a small community in
the Tuzla Canton, formed from the parts seceeding from the
community of Lopare in 1991 when Lopare joined Srpska (actually
at the time Community of Lopare joined the "Srpska autonomna
oblast Semberija i Majevica", that was one of the few SAO's
that formed RS soon afterwards). The Dayton agreement in 1995
confirmed the division with the IEBL (Interentity boundary line -
border between RS and FBiH).
The coat of arms of the community is in details described at <www.celic.ba>.
Sumarised it says more of less so:
The coat of arms is composed of six elements: fortification as a
symbol of defence, honeycomb as a symbol of seduility of the
local people, crescent and star as a symbol of Islam and Bosniak
people, flower with two rows of twelve patails, symbolising the
twelve settlelments composing the community and twelve genocides
over the local people though history. Inner rows of petails is
red and the outer is green, except for the one petails that is
chequy, designating the Croatian population living there. The
golden fleur de lys is the statehood symbol, and the rising sun
is the symbol of the community reborn.
It may be noted that the blue diagonal is entirely unmentioned in
the description, and the blue is not even mentioned in the list
of colours used in the coa: white, green, purpure red, yellow,
golden yellow, honey colour, dark green and brown. (sic!)
The flag is not mentioned, and I wrote them for more info, though
I am not entirely optimistic that they shall answer. I have a
distinct feeling that the flag may well be a white rectangle with
the Coat of Arms in the middle, but this is just a hint as yet.
As a side note, this is a good example of the modern B&H
"heraldry" as it often degenrates into showing many
elements in attempts to "show it all". The lack of any
heraldic (or vexillologic, for that matter) authority that
"inspect" the emblems in any way in B&H is surely
one of the reasons. The other might be lack of any real heraldic
tradition in the last half a century at least, and a frequent
(global) misconception that the graphic designers are the people
who are qualified to design Coat of Arms. We shall see many of
such emblems in B&H yet (not quite unlike the symbols in say,
Russia or Island, to name a few), though I have noticed lately
that many of the local communities statutes begin to mention a
central authority that is supposed to approve the symbols. I am
not aware that such authority is yet established but it is a good
sign and I guess that some of the "clumsy" symbols
adopted recently may well be redesigned in future. After all a
bad(ly designed) symbol is maybe better then no symbol at all.
Information located by Pascal Gross.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 May 2004