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I have bought a book: Csáki, Imre: A magyar
kira'lysa'g va'rmegyéinek ci'merei a XVIII-XIX. században,
Corvina, Budapest, 1995 , in which are shown (one big coat of
arms in each page!) all the coats of arms of the counties of the
Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII. and
XIX. centuries.
The coat of arms of the Hungarian "Pozsega vármegye"
[Pozega county] was: a cartouche shield, divided per fess: 1-
azure two lions or affrontés fighting each other with swords,
the dexter one holding an argent and or sword with a royal crown
or at the top, the sinister one holding a sword or with a ribbon
gules along the sword and a royal crown or at the top; 2- tierced
per fess [divided in three per fess]: a- divided per fess,
A-azure; B- sable a wavy fess argent; b- vert a running marten
natural; c- divided per fess, A-sable a wawy fess argent; B-
azure. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown or. The coat of
arms was adopted first in 1748.
If it seems rather complicated, it isn't when one sees the
picture. The upper part of the shield shows on blue two lions
fighting with swords, then the lower part whows fives stripes
(1:1:2:1:1), alternatively, blue, black with a wavy line in
white, green with a marten, black with a wavy line in white and
blue.
Pascal Vagnat, 28 June 1998
Rather like what I saw - even if I was not sure then, with
this description ,now I can tell it is the same blazon.
Željko Heimer, 2 July 1998
Several days ago I had chance to get a quick glance of the
flag of Pozega-Slavonia . You must bear in mind that the image
above is a reconstruction from that quick glance, and is
therefore only a draft.
The flag of the County of Pozega-Slavonia
(Poz<es<ko-slavonska z<upanija) yellow with green base
and chief (a la Spain), with the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms is the shield from the coat of arms of the
former Pozega County granted in 1745. The lower part is obviously
a variation of the coat of arms of Slavonia, while I do not know
what the upper part is referencing to.
Željko Heimer , 29 March 1999
The information about this County smybols are rather wague and
insufuicient. Apart from reports by Janko Ehrlich, and sseveral
of my spottings of that flag on TV, I have hardly a clue to start
from. However, I found one image that proves that there is a flag
to report, indeed. See at <www.pozega.hr>
image of the magistrate of Pozega, hoisting the flags of Croatia,
the County and the City (properly ordered!).
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2000
The symbols were adopted on 5 July 1994 by a decision: Odluka
o grbu i zastavi Županije Požeško-slavonske, 5.
srpnja 1994. Službeni vjesnik Županije
Požeško-slavonske, br. 5/94, 7. srpnja 1994. This was
slightly changed (but not designwise) by: Odluka izmjenama i
dopunama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Županije Požeško-
slavonske, 29. veljace 1996. Požeško-slavonski
službeni glasnik, br. 5/94, 7. srpnja 1994.
The materials used for the preparation of the decision was kindly
sent to me from the County archives by Mrs. Branka
Starcevic-Tesari, the Secretary of the County Administartion on
20 October 2005.
The modern design of the coat of arms based on the historical
muster was performed by Frane Paro, an academic painter and a
graphic artist from Zagreb and a profesor at the Zagreb Acabemy
of Fine Arts. The coat of arms is blazoned: Divided per fess, in
chief Azure two Lions rampant reguardant Or, the Dexter holding a
Sword Argent topped with a Crown Or and the Sinister holding a
Sceptre Or topped with a Crown Or from which is folding around
the Sceptre a Shroud Gules, and in base Vert, between two
barrulets wavy Argent a Marten passant proper. The coat of arms
of Pozega and Slavonia County is the same as the shield of the
coat of arms of the former Pozega County, granted on 26 February
1748 by Empress Maria Theresia. The coat of arms is set in the
middle of a flag of green-yellow- green, with the central stripe
being double the width of each other two.
Željko Heimer, 29 October 2005
I would blazon: "a Marten courant proper", since the
animal seems to be running.
Lewis A. Nowitz, 29 October 2005
You are probably right and indeed in Croatian blazon we use
words to describe the position of the marten as
"running" or "in the run". However, it seems
that the term "passant" has been usual in English of
it.
Željko Heimer, 30 October 2005
Passant" is fine. The difference is tiny; that's why I
said it was a "quibble".
Lewis A. Nowitz, 31 October 2005
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image by Željko Heimer, 29 October 2005
images from Croatian History
Museum site by courtesy of Jelena Borosak Marijanovic
Flag of the Pozega riflemen - beginning of the 19th
century
White silk, painting, wooden flagstaff, gilt bronze finial
126 x 182 cm, length of flagstaff 302 cm
Rectangular flag sewn of four pieces of silk, the edges decorated
with alternating gold, blue, silver and brown flames. Obverse: in
the centre of the flag field an Austrian Imperial double-headed
eagle bears a square shield with the elements of the coat of arms
of the Kingdom of Slavonia and the initials of the ruler F II
(Francis II). Reverse: in the centre of the flag field a
depiction of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ. Above the
image the motto reads: PRO DEO REGE ET LEGE ('For God, king and
law'). The flagstaff is spirally coloured in white, blue, yellow
and brown, ending with a foliate filial with the carved initials:
F II (Francis II). The flag was the so-called Leibfahne of the
Pozega Jaeger battalion.
The flag was donated to the Museum by Teodor Kraljevic, the
parish priest in Pozega in 1906. The flag was restored by Iva
Cukman (textile) and Alma Orlic (painting) in 1990.
Streamer 1801
Yellow silk atlas, while silk, silver acupiction embroidery,
sequins length of streamer 258 cm, width 14 cm
A simple streamer decorated with a simple silver border along the
edge and an embroidered inscription along the ends of the
streamer edged with stylised branches. The inscriptions on the
ends read: MARIA.THERESIA / AVG / VEXILUM.HOC.ET /
FASCIAM.ADNEXAM / ACV.PHRYGIA.A.SE / PICTAM. and PROVINCIAE.POSE
/ GANAE.MILIT.VE / NATORIBVS BENIG / NITATIS.SVAE.DO /
CVMENTVM.DONAT / MDCCCI.
J. Borosak-Marijanovic, Zastave kroz stoljeca, Zagreb,
1996, catalogue number 53, page 121.
From Croatian History Museum
site by courtesy of Jelena Borosak Marijanovic
Bigger images at <agor.srce.hr/m012900v.jpg>
and <m012901v.jpg>.
Quoted from <www.hr/hrvatska/HRgradovi/Slavonija/Slavonija.html>:
"Slavonia and Baranya occupies the eastern part of the
Croatia, being covered by the territories of five counties. The
Slavonski Brod and Sava Basin County, the Osijek and Baranya
County, the Pozega and Slavonia County, the Vukovar and Srijem
County and the Virovitica and Drava Basin County. "
I.e. Slavonia is region of Croatia between rivers Sava and Drava
(and Baranya is on "other" side of Drava).
Historically, Croatia was known as kingdom of Croatia and
Slavonia within the Hungarian kingdom and Dalmatia within
Austrian part of Habsburg empire.
However, the Coat of Arms shown there is wrong. The three martens
Coat of Arms is shown on some old maps, including one map made in
17th century which was rather popularized here due to a high
quality reprint made some 15 years ago (I happened to have a copy
of it above my desk). I'm almost sure that the image on the site
is scanned from that reprint. The Coat of Arms that should have
been used is the Slavonian Coat of Arms representing a marten
running on red (or earlier also green) field between two wavy
lines of white all on blue background and with a mullet Or in
chief. Something like the sinistermost Coat of Arms in the crest
over the Coat of Arms on Croatian flag.
Željko Heimer and Dov Gutterman , 4 March
2000
See also: Croatia - Historical Flags (1848-1918)
