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by Zeljko Heimer
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On a site at http://www.posavina.de
you can see a flag captioned "new flag of Posavski
canton" that obviously represent a flag of the Canton 2 ,
i.e. "Bosanskoposavski kanton".
The symbolic is quite obvious:
- Croats - chequy field, red stripe
- Bosniaks - f-d-ls in a bend (sinistre here) and green stripe
- Sava river - blue and white wavy - Posavina meaning
"region by Sava river", "posavski" being
adjective form, "Bosanska Posavina" is of course,
"region by Sava in Bosnia" - since Sava as any other
iver have two banks, the other one being in Croatian region of
Slavonia (cf. Brodsko-posavska zupanija).
However, I believe that the flag represented here could not at
all be called "new". I believe that it goes about the
flag adopted, maybe not so long ago, but certainly before the
time when OHR "dismissed" all of the cantonal flags
except that of Sarajevo canton (did we found that claim to be
true anyway?) for they being too much nationalistic and
offensive.
Zeljko Heimer, 2 May 2000
The image from "Posavski magazin" is captioned as
new cantonal flag. Until now no other information confirm it. The
coat of arms contains Croatian chequy field for the Croat
majority of the Canton. It also contains a slanted bar with two
fleurs-de-lis for the Bosniak people, and for the connection with
the medieval Bosnia. In base is represented river Sava, the main
resource of the area and the name-sake of the Canton (Posavina
means region around Sava river). The flag is red over white over
green tircolour with unequal stripes. The red is for Croats,
green for Bosniaks and white for peace among them.
The canton is situated in northern Bosnian Posavina consisting of
two territoriall disconnected pockets around towns of Odzak and
Orasje, where Croats and Bosniaks managed to fight of the Serb
agression.
Zeljko Heimer, 27 September 2000
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