by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005
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by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005
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Gradina is a community in Virovitica-Podravina County with
over 5 000 inhabitants (main vilage of the same name has just
over 1000) about 10 km north-east of Virovitica. (BTW, Gradina is
not uncommon name of setlemments in the wider region, though the
only one other of importance is village near Porec in Istria, but
this is the only one being a community). Gradina is of lately
become a center of Marian worship.
The "Coat of Arms" is shown on the
web site of Gradina <www.gradina.hr>.
It is a logo that pictures on a green shield a church on a red
hill, to its right a Marian cypher and to the left a corn ear and
in chief a wavy line, in the base there is a white disk with an
oak leaf. As the original is rather small, my image is an
extrapolation, so all the precautions of an extrapolation are
due.
On the web site there is a photo
of the center of Gradina, where a large lampost is decorated with
four flags - two of them are the flags of Croatia, the one
closest to the camera is that of the county and the one furtherst
away would then be the flag of Gradina. It is not easy to tell,
but it seems that it is a white flag with the "Coat of
Arms" in the middle. The photo is not clear enough for me to
dare to draw an image.
I am fairly convinced that the Ministry of Justice and
Administration did not approve this coat of arms, so thses would
be used de facto.
Željko Heimer, 9 September 2003
Tomsilav Šipek confirmed what I was suspecting seing the real
flag on an occasion.
Željko Heimer, 17 November 2004
The flag in the County Assembly Hall confirms again that it is
the white flag with the Coat of Arms used for Gradina, though it
is not yet approved by the central authorities (and shall hardly
be so in this shape, I guess). However, the Coat of Arms on the
flag there differs slightly from the one that was shown on the
community web site. The only significant difference is omitted
the Marian cipher - other differences are due to my
interpretation of small details of the original and could be
ignored. I can't explain why the flag in Virovitica would not
have the cipher, possibly it was an atempt to make the flag more
"pleasing" to the central authorities so they would
approve it, or it is simply a variation as unofficial as any
other.
Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005
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by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005
