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by Zeljko Heimer, 24 September 1999
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I located a photo at: http://www.2mwg.hr/sports/02-mpt/bilten/bilten2/hrm.htm.
Do yo recognize the symbol ? Is it a flag ?
Dov Gutterman, 23 September 1999
Yes, I can ID it. It is the coat of arms of the city of Split.
It is a rectangular "shield" with representation of the
old city - the Diocletian's Palace with characteristic tower of
St. Duje, the patron of the city, which is also represneted in
the sinister shield, while there is the Croatian chequy shield in
dexter. The Croatian chequy is often left blue-white, but
obviously this is not the official policy . The stone relief with
the COA is set in the main entrance to the palace at some time
(certainly before 1990, but possibly much before). also, it may
be worth of mentioning that the same COA was used during the
socialist period with the fivepointed red star in place of the
Croatian chequy (not in shield form), as I can prove from some
post-cards of 1970's.
However, this coat of arms does not apear on the flag, even if
there is the law enforcing cities to have mono-coloured flags
with coa on it. Possibly, the flag of the city is not officially
adopted after 1990. What they use is blue flag with white
representation of the Palace, somewhat differently artistically
designed the on the coat of arms.
But, lately it seems that only a specific variation of that flag
is used where the white palace is made of word Split repeated
several times and toped with number 1700 - this being the logo of
1700 years of Split celebration. I have not been able to get good
image of this, though. Take a look also at my pages http://jagor.srce.hr/~zheimer/flags/descr/hr-city5.htm
Zeljko Heimer, 24 September 1999
by Zeljko Heimer, 9 October 2001
I have reported earlier that Split does not use its normal
flag, even if sometimes it is quoted as blue with white
representation of the Diokletian's Palace. Since early 1990's
only flag in actual use, in all occasions that would normaly be
reserved for the civic flag, is the flag of the celebration of
the 1700th anniversary of the city. It was celebrated in 1996,
but the actual celebrations of this big anniversary begun in
early 1990's and are lasted much after 1996. Still today it seems
that the only flag in use is this celebration flag.
The flag is vertical, blue with white logo of the celebration -
which is in turn based on the civic emblem - the Diokletian's
Palace with a characteristic tower of the Cathedral of St. Dujam
(parton killed by the same Roman emperor Diokletian in whose
palace the core of Split emerged, and the kathedral was built
over the emperor's mausoleum). This time it is formed by the
numerals 1700 and multiple inscriptions SPLIT topped with a
cross.
As the sources for the emblem I used charity post stamps issued
in 1996.
Zeljko Heimer, 9 October 2001
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by Zeljko Heimer, 24 September 1999
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