Valike Gorice (Zagreb County, Croatia)

Last modified: 2001-08-10 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer

• Overview
• 1997 Flag
• Coat of Arms

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• Zagreb County
• Croatian counites and cities
• Croatia
• collection of Croatian local flags at the FAME.

Overview

I located a site (in Croatian) with image and information about tha flag of Valike Gorice: the site URL is: http://public.srce.hr/~markruz/zastava.html
Pascal Vagnat 24 December 1998

This city located near Zagreb's Pleso International Airport, south of the Croatian capital.
Muhamed Mesic 24 December 1998

Velika Gorica gained the status of a city in the new territorial division of the Republic of Croatia in 1995. The coat of arms and the flag of Velika Gorica are adopted on (22-JUL-1997)? Sabre, oxen rampant Argent holding in forelegs a house of the second roofed Gules. In chief, sinister a crescent of the second, dexter three mullets Or one above two. The extinct kind of oxen Tur (Bos primigenius) gave name to Turopolje - a wide plain which the city covers today. The building in its forelegs is the townhall of Turopolje (today a museum), of the medieval Noble communuity of Turopolje. The crescent and stars are taken from the coat of arms of the Community. The red colour of the flag is chosen as the traditional colour of the Turopolje noblemen.
Zeljko Heimer

1997 Flag

by Zeljko Heimer 31 December 1998

The coat of arms and the flag of the same elements as current, are adopted on 22-JUL-1997, and were in unofficial use for allmost a year.
Zeljko Heimer

Coat of Arms

by Zeljko Heimer

Previous CoA

by Zeljko Heimer