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by Zeljko Heimer,13 August 2003
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Ravna Gora is a community some 50 km east of Rijeka on Rijeka-Zagreb road,
approximately half way between Delnice
and Vrbovsko. The community has about
3000 inhabitants today, just about 2000 of them living in the
main town with the same name. "Ravna Gora" mean
something like flat topped mountain or hill, and it is a very
frequent name in the wider region. There is a mountain NW of
Požega named "Ravna gora" (note the
capitalization), there are at least two more mountains in BiH fo
the same name, but maybe the world-wide is best known Ravna gora
on border between Serbia and Montenegro where the core of the
Chetnik movement was formed.
The town was granted royal privileged trading place rights in
1785 by Emperor Joseph II. The coat of arms was granted at the
same time: Azure a village argent roofed gules beneath a rocky
mountain argent issuant from a base vert on which is a bar or and
in chief dexter a sun or and in sinister a cerscent argent. The
style of the coat of arms was similar to others ganted in the
period, with coat of arms in a cartouche surrounded with a white
ring to form a seal all within a baroque alegorical sceene.
The modernization was made in mid-1990's, judging by the style no
doubt by the Rijeka company Heraldic-art (like all of the coat of
arms in the County, I believe).
The coat of arms and the flag decision is adopted in 1995, but
was published in the official gazette only in 1999 (possibly they
were waiting for the approval by the Ministry?): Odluka o grbu i
zastavi Opcine Ravna Gora, 20.06.1995, Službene novine
Primosko-goranske županije, br. 26/99, 10.12.1999.
The Coat of Arms is described there as: on
green ground a city with a belfry and red roofs infront of which
is extending a golden-yellow road. Behind the city there are
three silver-white clif hills, the middle one being higher then
the other two. To the right is a golden-yellow sun and to the
left silver-white crescent in a blue sky. The decision determines
two type of the coat of arms to be used - the "normal"
one being in so called Croatian shield and the ceremonial verison
is so called Hungarian shield. Unfortunatley, no image is given
in the official gazette, but presume that the
"Croatian shield" is the simple one (as posted) while
the "Hungarian shield" is a "baroque" one as
used in the 1785 grant of arms (yet simplified, no doubt).
I should mention that Oštric book that was my source until I
got the gazette is errorneous in showing the "road" (a
fess in base) as silver, but it should be golden. Some visitors
to my web site already informed me that the golden road is used
in practice.
The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle.
Ratio:1:2. The ceremonial flag is also described, differing only
in the fact that is use the ceremonial coat of arms in the
centre. (there is no hint to say that the ceremonial flag is a
gonfalon or something like that, but then again, I would not
exculde that possibility entirely).
Zeljko Heimer,13 August 2003
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by Zeljko Heimer,13 August 2003