Split-Dalmatia County (Croatia)

Splitsko-Dalmatinska Zupanija

Last modified: 2001-08-23 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Heraldry of Dalmatia

See also:

• Croatian Counties and Municipalities
• Croatia

Municipalities:

• Makarska
• Marina
• Split
• Trogir

The Flag

It seems that the county of Split and Dalmatia (Splitsko-Dalmatinska zupanija - most of counties have such a double names, naming a city and a wider region) adopted a yellow-blue flag, devided vertically in proportions 1:2 aproximately, with a blue shield in yellow field bearing a yellow crown (of king Zvonimir). I've been reading in newspapers that this flag was proposed, and I have seen it in use lately, but I don't know if it was addopted and confirmed from Zagreb.
Zeljko Heimer, 18 March 1996

The coat of arms is Azure a Crown of Zvonimir Or. The crown of Zvonimir is based on the representation of the crown on the head of Croatian king found on the old Croatian engraving on a baptistery in early romanic style of XI century. The baptistery is found in Split, and it is believed that the figure represent the king Zvonimir-Dmitar (?-1089, ruled from 1075), who liberated Dalmatia from Venetians, and organized capital and seat of Croatian parliament in Knin. The same crown design is used on the coat of arms of Sibenik and Knin County.
The flag is blue with yellow hoist in the middle of which the coat of arms is set.
The County of Split and Dalmatia is situated in the middle Dalmatia. Even if it is the only county that have the name of Dalmatia in it, since it does not encompass the whole historical kingdom, there is no sence in using the historical Dalmatian coat of arms of three golden leopard's heads in blue shied. However, the historical connection is retained by using of the same colours in the modern county symbols.
Source: Vjesnik, Zagreb, 29. svibnja 1998. str 21.
Zeljko Heimer

Coat of Arms

by Zeljko Heimer

Heraldry of Dalmatia

The following blasons come from Siebmacher's volume on Dalmatia.

Dalmatia (I)

Gules, three leopards' heads affrontes argent, langued and crowned or. (From Konrad von Grueneberg's armory of the Constance Council, 1483).

Dalmatia (II)

Azure, three leopards' heads affrontes, crowned or, langued gules. (Siebmachers Wappenbuche, old edition; this was the version used in the Austrian state arms).

Dalmatia under Venetian rule

: quarterly, 1: Gules, three leopards' heads affrontes crowned or, langued gules (Dalmatia); 2: checquy Argent and Gules (Croatia); 3: Or, three horseshoes inverted sable (kingdom of Rascia); 4: Argent (or Or), a lion gules armed and langued azure (kingdom of Albania).

Dalmatia under Napoleonic rule

Gules, three leopards' heads affrontes or. (shown as escutcheon of pretence on the arms of marechal Soult, duke of Dalmatia).

Republic of Ragusa

Argent, on three bends azure the word LIBERTAS gules. (Arms of the republic).

Ragusa (duchy in Austria)

Argent, three bends azure.

Illyria (old arms)

Gules, a silver crescent beneath an 8-pointed star argent.

Illyria (kingdom, 1816)

Azure, an antique galley or.

Cattaro (lordship, Austria)

Argent, a lion gules armed and langued or.

Francois Velde, 30 June 1995