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by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
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by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
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The flag is quatered red and blue, with the arms of the county
in the middle. The arms are per chevron azure and barry gules and
argent [this was latter changed to argent only], tripple cross
and double fleur de lys or and cock azure stantant winged or on
the triple island vert, all within bordure or (that is the best
blazoning I can do). In ordinary words the shield is blue with a
golden triple cross and double fleur de lys in each corner, with
a triangular spike from bottom with three red and three white
stripes, in which there is a cock standing on the green triple
island. The cock is blue with wings with some yellow. The shield
is bordered in yellow.
The flag is the same when hoisted vertically (i.e. that would
make it *S*/*** -> MvN in my notation).
I belive that both the flag and the arms are new (1995 or 96),
but they are, surely, based on the older arms of Koprivnica and
Krizevac, both important towns in late 18th century. The arms of
Krizevac (which I have seen now in use, but I haven't seen the
flag) is (light) blue, with two hands, one in armour, holding a
tripplecross, and with the mounting star and crescent in each
corner. I don't know the history of this cross, but the
connection of the cross with Krizevac is quite obvious if you
consider that croatian Kriz = english Cross. I
belive that the flag has these arms on the blue field, but I
haven't seen it.
Koprivnica has the blue arms with a castle with three towers on a
kind of a bridge-like structure (I haven't got a closer look, and
I have no references by hand) surrounded with two golden double
fleurs de lys. The flag (which I saw) is blue with these arms.
Željko Heimer, 18 August 1996
The County of Koprivnica - Krizevci is situated north east
from Zagreb, in the valley of Drava river on the border with
Hungary, a very rich agricultural region of Croatia. The triple
cross is from the arms of the city of Krizevci ('kriz'
being a cross in Croatian), and the double fleur-de-lys is found
in the arms of Koprivnica. The peacock was symbolizing the area
for a long time, reminding to agriculture, as well as the history
- referring to the legend of the siege of the city of Djurdjevac
- when peacocks were fired from the besieged city instead of
cannonballs, therefore the Turks concluded that there is too much
food in the city and that the siege was senseless, and retreated.
The 'rule' of Hungarian (and Croatian) heraldry that charges need
to be supported by a mount, is also respected here, connecting
the arms with ancient tradition.
Željko Heimer, from FAME
I located Photo of this
county flag at <www.hrvatska.com> (defunct) Quite similar
to the image except the color of bottom part of the Coat of Arms
(Looks like black and not green, but maybe it is bad photo).
Dov Gutterman, 22 September 1999
I can confirm that it is green. I really looks dark on the
photo , probably due to the fact that there is light comming from
the background, and the field is sewed probably with several
layers of textile. I have seen tose flags "live" myself
a year ago and I spoke with the man who was manufacturing them,
and I have a small table flag clearly showing the green filed.
Finally, I have a copy of the official documentation on the flag
adoption (from official gazette and county secretary matterials),
where the CoA is shown in heraldic hatching (with slanted lines
for green field), and legend bellow naming slanted lines for
green. Furthermore, there is a list of colours used, stating that
the green should be of shade "Chromos 50" (Chromos
being the paints factory in Zagreb, and that name being the
number from their catalogue). I have no details on the
exact shade of it, but it is as close to the "standard
medium green" as one can put it.
And , another thing - if you take a better look, you can see a
small part of another flag in upper right corner of the photo. It
is certainly not the Croatian flag, I have never seen such pale
blue used for it, but it is highly probable that it is the flag
of Koprivnica.
Željko Heimer, 23 september 1999
It isn't black and it isn't a bad photo: it's just a photo
taken against the light. Had you lightened that area a bit, you'd
noticed that it's green. Dark green.
Jorge Candeias, 24 september 1999
Sources:
1. Odluka o grbu i zastavi Zupanije Koprivni?ko-Krizeva?ke, 26.
travnja 1996. Sluzbeni glasnik Zupanije Koprivnicko-Krizevacke
6/96, 3. svibnja 1996. pp. 176-7.
2. Rjesenje Ministarstva uprave RH Klasa:UP/I-017-02/96-01/43,
Ur.br: 515-04-03/1-97-4, Zagreb, 21. velja?e 1996; on approval of
the coat of arms and the flag
3. Odluka o izmjenama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Zupanije
Koprivni?ko- Krizeva?ke, 14. ozujka 1997. Sluzbeni glasnik
Zupanije Koprivnicko- Krizevacke 1/97, 15. ozujka 1997. p. 10.
4. Glas Podravine i Prigorja, 07. 03. 1997; 30. 10. 1998; 15. 01.
1999.
According to source no. 4 the designer of the flag is Antonio
Grgic, architecture student from Koprivnica.
Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
Browsing the net I noticed a new issue (December 2001!) of the
official gazette of the County available on-line at <www.glasila.hr> including a
change in the decision on the Coat of Arms and the flag of the
Koprivnica-Križevci County:
Odluka o izmjenama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Županije
Koprivnicko- Križevacke, 14. prosinca 2001. Službeni
glasnik KKŽ 14/01, 15. prosinca 2001. pp. 890-891.
The decision does not change anything substantial for our
interest - it somewhat more precisely defines the process of
granting the right for the usage of the Coat of Arms and the flag
to the public buissnesses, and changes the penal fees (lowering
them!).
Željko Heimer, 7 Febuary 2004
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by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
Ratio: 1:2
Adopted: 1995/1996
Abandoned: 05 March 1997
Željko Heimer
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by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2000
In the Museum of the City of Koprivnica was held between 14
April to 14 May 2003, an exhibition of symbols of the County and
its subdivisions. The exhibition was held as part of the
celebraion of 10th anniversary of the County, and author was
Dražen Ernecic, historian and the currator of the Museum.
Though his cordiallity, I had chance of studing the exhibitied
flags in details.
The exhibition showed the state of the civic heraldry and
vexillology in the county. Out of one county, three cities and 22
communities, there are adopted symbols of one county, all three
cities and 12 communities. So yet 10 communities have no official
symbols adopted, and one of the intentions of the exhibitions was
to initiate the adoption of the symbols for the remaining
communities.
There is a nice catalogue of the exhibition [ern03] that explains in short the
history of county flags and showes few existing historical coat
of arms of cities and towns in it. It includes images of 16 coas
and photos of 16 matching flags of the county and its
subdivisions, each with blazon and flag description, indication
of designers and approval dates.
Željko Heimer, 20 May 2003
