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Veliko Trgovisce (Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia)

Opc'ina Veliko Trgovišc'a

image by Željko Heimer, 22 October 2005

Overview
Coat of Arms
Rejected Symbols

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Overview

Veliko Trgovišce is a community in the Krapina-Zagorje Community, abot 20 km north of Zagreb and 20 km south of Krapina. Population about 5,700, some 1,300 in the village of the same name itself. Veliko Trgovišce is probably well known as the birth place of Franjo Tudjman, the first president of the Republic of Croatia.
Željko Heimer, 26 June 2004

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 26 June 2004

Rejected Symbols

Flag

image by Željko Heimer, 24 October 2005

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 26 June 2004

The coat of arms is: per pale dexter chequy gules and argent and sinister vert overall conjoined a pale and a chief argent. The vertical white pale and the chief together form the shape of the letter T for Trgovišce, but also for Tudjman. The flag was adopted at the same time as the coat of arms in mid-1990's, a bicolour white over blue with the coat of arms in the middle, and was briefly used. It was probably rejected by the Ministry of Administration and the use was suspended. Information thanks to Tomislav Šipek, 01.07.2003.
Željko Heimer, 26 June 2004

The previous flag was adopted with the prevous statutes: Statut Opcine Veliko Trgovišce, "Službeni glasnik Krapinsko-zagorske županije" br.10/94, 15/95, 19/96 i 8/01, and finally the one currently available at the web site: Statut opcine Veliko Trgovišce, 14.12.2001, Web stranice opcine Veliko Trgovišce. The statutory decision on the coat of arms and the flag introducing current symbols amends that stautes.
Anyway, the previous flag was thus adopted in 1994, but was supressed in use by 1996 due to the rejection of the design by the Ministry of Administration. The statuts describe the coat of arms and the flag in rather much details, while omitting some other important things, so it would be dificult to "reconstruct" them from the description in the statutes only. The coat of arms of Veliko Trgovišce initially adopted was: per pale dexter chequy gules and argent and sinister vert overall conjoined a pale and a chief argent. The vertical white pale and the chief together form the shape of the letter T for Trgovišce, but also for Tudjman, the first president of the Republic of Croatia, who was born there. The statutes actually do not describe the fields on the both sides of the letter T, but mentions that the shield is outlined in red. The flag was adopted a bicolour white over blue with the coat of arms in the middle. Overall ratio was a bit unusual, 8:13. Incidentally, the statutes does not mention that there is the coat of arms in the flag. I believe that the ommisions in descriptions are due to error that, even if it was noticed, it was not corrected since the whole thing was rejected quite early.
Željko Heimer, 24 October 2005