by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005
Last modified: 2005-06-25 by dov gutterman
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by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005
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Cetingrad is a community in the Karlovac County. About 4,700
inhabitants, but only about 900 in old town of the same name. It
is situated about 50 km south of Karlovac
near the NW border of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Velika Kladuša). The place has important
historic meaning as you shall see from the Coat of
Arms charges. The coat of arms of Cetingrad is azure a
charter argent with five seals gules pendant from it on strings
proper. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms bordered
yellow in the middle.
The diploma is a symbolic depiction of the charter signed on the
New Year 1527 on the Assembly of Cetingrad (Cetingradski Sabor)
when the Croatian nobility elected Archduke Ferdinand Habsburg
for the king of Croatia. The charter sealed with the seals of the
highest Croatian nobility and the Great Seal of the Kingdom (with
chequy shield) is among the most important documents of the
Croatian statehood and is preserved in the state archives in
Vienna.
Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005
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by Željko Heimer, 8 June 2005