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by Zeljko Heimer, 27 June 2003
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by Zeljko Heimer
Mali Los<inj - City of Mali Losinj is situated on the
island of the same name (Losinj) in Primorsko-goranska county,
south east of Istria peninsula. In the adminstraive
reorganization of Croatia in 1993, it was given the status of a
community, but the city status was returned in 1997.
The coat of arms of M. Losinj must originate from sometime in
19th centruy, when this port take the bigger importance then the
nearby Veli Losinj ("veli" meaning - greater,
"mali" lesser, though these attributes are no longer
accurate). It is the shield showing the threemasted sailling
ship. I have not found the exact data of granting, but it seems
that such CoA in different artistical redentions was used
throughout 20th century (one such representation can be seen in
Zmajic's "Heraldika").
The modern artistic redention is adopted sometime in early 1990's
(probably when ML still had a community status, and maybe it was
readopted in 1997). It consists of a blue shield bordered with a
golden border, in the shield sailing a three-masted ship proper
(maroon) with golden sails. In many cases I have seen the
"golden" to be represented by pure orange shade, but on
Mali Losinj pages it is clearly represented in more appropriate
"golden yellow".
Until now I have not managed to find any info on a flag, but I
have no doubt that there is at least one adopted, and highly
probable also a ceremonial variant.
Zeljko Heimer , 9 July 2000