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by Zeljko Heimer, 2 March 2004
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Orebic is a small town at the tip of the Peljeac
peninsula (Peljeac is maybe also known to some for its
Italian name Sabioncello). There are about 5,000 inhabitants,
about the half of them living in the city itself. The inhabitants
of Orebic were traditionally captains of some fame, serving on
many large ships. The surrounding valleys are famous for very
quality vines, probably the most well know being the red wine
Dingac. The symbols in the coat of arms should therefore be quite
logical choice. Gules a navigational instrument or and in the
canton a bunch of grapes azure slipped of the second.
The coat of arms was being shown for a long time on
Hotelsko-turisticko poduzece Orebic - Opcina Orebic <www.orebic-htp.hr> (1 July
2002) though recently the site was revamped, not including it any
more...
I have no info on the flag as yet.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 Febuary 2004
It is most probably a sextant (from classical Latin 'sextans',
sixth, after 'sex', six), an instrument made of an articulate,
circulary
sector measuring one sixth of a circle, a lens and a mirror. By
allowing the measure of the angle between a star and the horizon
line, the sextant allows to take a bearing. A similar instrument
with a sector measuring one eigth of a circle was called an
octant.
Ivan Sache, 15 Febuary 2004
The instrument in question is a sextant, although it's
possible but unlikely that it's an octant. The former's arc is
one-sixth of a circle; the latter's one-eighth. Informally,
they're all called "sextant". They aid navigation by
triangulation via the horizon and a heavenly body. The gizmo that
hangs down remains steady while the ship pitches and rolls...
Lewis A. Nowitz, 15 Febuary 2004
I got an answer from the webmaster of the site above. The flag
and the coat of arms are not adopted yet. The coat of arms showed
is not official, the community just haven't come to adopting that
decision yet. And it seems it is not in hurry to do so, expecting
new elections these days and haning other things in mind.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 Febuary 2004
In the mean time I have received from the webmaster of the
Orebic site (who also edits the local official gazette), Donko
Bakalic, the drawing of the flag, that looks very much like the
one from the Heraldik-art d.o.o. workshop. Donko is yet not aware
of the decision of the local council regaridng the adoption of
the symbiols, but, probably these are in the process. I guess
that the Ministry would have little objections to these as they
are now, so it is probably just the matter of time.
The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle
(without the otherwise usual golden border). The part of the
branch on which the bunch of grapes is hanging is coloured
"proper" (brown, in this case).
Zeljko Heimer, 2 March 2004
by Zeljko Heimer, 2 March 2004