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by Zeljko Heimer, 20 August 2000
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I have bought a book: Csa'ki, Imre: A magyar
kira'lysa'g va'rmegyéinek ci'merei a XVIII-XIX. sza'zadban,
Corvina, Budapest, 1995 , in which are shown (one big coat of
arms in each page!) all the coats of arms of the counties of the
Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII. and
XIX. centuries.
« Veröce va'rmegye » [Virovitica county]: Polish like shield,
tierced in fess: 1- gules a six-pointed star or; 2- argent a
broad fess vert on which is a running marten natural; 3- gules an
anchor argent and brown per bend. The supporters are: dexter an
eagle regardant sable beaked or, tongued gules; sinister a lion
regardant or tongued gules. The shield is sumounted by a royal
crown or. The whole is on a board.
Pascal Vagnat, 28 June 1998
Without supporters, used today for Virovitica-Podravina
county.
Zeljko Heimer, 2 July 1998
The CoA is highly probable is the same as the historical CoA
of the County of Virovitica (see http://jagor.srce.hr/~zheimer/flags/descr/hr-subah.htm
) red with green stripe bordered yellow witn running marten
proper, and with a yellow star in the red field above and an
anchor proper diagonally set in the red field below (to keep the
description simple). Such CoA (not in "baroque" style
as on my mentioned page, but only a simple shield, as expected)
is published several times in "Globus" .
Zeljko Heimer, 22 June 1999
Finally I found out how the flag of the Viroviticko -
Podravska zupanija (Virovitica - Podravina County) looks like. I
assume that my image above is not entirely correct, since it is
based upon a very short glimpse on TV.
Janko Ehrlich Zdvorak, 17 August 2000
The County of Virovitica and Podravina is situated in
north-western part of Slavonia, south of Drava (German: Drau)
river with capital in Virovitica. The city was seat of an ancient
county from middle age, but the region was occupied by Turks and
held for almost 200 years. It was liberated in early 18th century
- 21-JUL-1718 is counted as the liberation day of Slavonia. The
reestablished county of Virovitica (German: Virovititz,
Hungarian: Vero//ce [ o// is o with two acutes]) covered much
larger region along Drava then today, reaching Donau on the
eastern end, including cities of Djakovo and Osijek. The coat of
arms was granted by Maria Theresia, and verified by the imperial
and royal office in Vienna on 16-MAY-1746. The coat of arms was:
Gules, on a fess Vert bordered with two bars Argent a Marten
passant proper, in chief a Mullet [of six] Or and in base an
anchor in bend of the third. Crowned with royal crown.
Supporters, dexter an eagle regardant Sable beaked and membered
Or, tongued Gules, sinister a lion regardant Or, tongued Gules.
Compartment: a board Argent. The coat of arms combines the
mideval arms of Kingdom of Slavonia and arms of family Patacic
(Patachich) de Zajezda, Ljudevit Patacic being installed in 1745
as the county supperier officer ("supremus commes" or
"veliki zupan"). See Historical Coat of
Arms (1746).
The county was briefly disbanded in 1785, but restablished in
1790. From that year is preserved a flag in Croatian History
Museum. The flag is red vertically hoisted banner in ratio 1:3~.
In the middle of the field is the shield of the coat of arms,
crowned, and with inscriptions in golden letters in arch, above
"PRO: DEO: REGE: ET: LEGE" (For God, King and Law) and
below "MDCCLXXXX" (= 1790, year of reestablishment and
the production of the flag). See Historical Flag
of Virovitica (Virovititz) County (1790)
The administrative regorganization in 1886 had little effect to
Virovitica county and the coat of arms was continued to be used.
There is no evidence if the previous flag (at that time almost
100 years old) continued to be used, or if there was any used at
all. With the desintegration of Austria-Hungary after WWII the
county system was disbanded, and the symbols, of course, went
into disuse.
When the new administrative division of independent Croatia was
mad in 1993 the old symbols were not entirely forgotten, and they
were basis for the new ones. However, as it shall be seen, at
first the symbols were somewhat changed.
The decision on the coat of arms and the flag (Odluka o grbu i
zastavi Zupanije Viroviticko-podravske, 27-MAY-1994, Sluzbeni
glasnik ZVP nr. 3/94) determined new coat of arms and flag.
Quoting article 10 of said decision (my translation):
"The coat of arms of the County is rectangular with the
lower side curved and pointe in the midle. It is divided in four
horizontaly fields ordered red, white, green and red. The first
two fields are bar shaped, while the other two are of iregular
shape. In the upper red field there is in the middle a sixpointed
white star in size 1/5 of the width of the coat of arms, while in
the green field there is a black marten running towards left side
of the coat of arms [NB! It's meant non-heraldic left, ZH]. The
ratio of the red and green field in respect to the coat of arms
height is 1:3, while the white field is 1/10 of the coat of arms
width. The coat of arms, the fields and the star are outlined
with black". See Previous Coat of Arms
(1994-1996).
The article 12 of the said decision is simplier and more clear:
"The flag of the County is rectangular and blue. The Ratio
of width to length of the flag is 2:3. In the middle of the flag
there is the coat of arms of the County. The height of the flag
is equal to sum of height and width of the coat of arms."
See Previous Flag (1994-1996).
Such flag and CoA were probably rejected by the committee of the
Ministry of Administration that is to approve the design, IMHO
for two reasons:
1. oversimplification of the historical original.
2. one-coloured flag.
The regulations require that the historical CoAs are readopted if
possible, and that counties should have two-coloured flag fields.
In any case, this symbols were not very much seen in public (as
far as I am aware, none reported them as yet), and were
relatively soon superseeded by a new set.
The decision on change of the previous decision (Odluka o
izmjenama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Zupanije Viroviticko-podravske,
29-AUG-1996, Sluzbeni glasnik ZVP nr. ?/96) intorduces new simple
descriptions of the CoA and the flag. The CoA now reverts to the
old pattern, from which is different only in some colours (of the
field between the two rivers, and of the anchor). Of course, all
except the shield is ommited: "On red shield between two
white/silver bars a running marten , in chief a yellow/golden
six-pointed star, in base yellow/golden anchor" . The flag
is described:
"The flag in ratio 1:2, blue-white-blue with yellow/golden
bordered county coat of arms in the middle."
The shade of blue is not specified, but according to the county
official with whom I talked, the light blue is used. Also, if the
stripes are not equal that is not mentioned in the description,
so the only logical is to interpret it as equal-striped triband.
Zeljko Heimer, 20 August 2000
by Zeljko Heimer, 20 August 2000
I have some doubts regarding the wavy lines in the bars on the
CoA, but it is too early to claim anything. In general, it is
highly probable that the CoA is just as Janko reported - it is
shield from a historical CoA.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 August 2000
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From Croatian History
Museum site by courtesy of Jelena Borosak Marijanovic.
Bigger image at: http://jagor.srce.hr/hpm/s012800v.htm
Cavalry standard of the Virovitica County 1790
Light brown silk, braids, wood, brass, embroidery
58 x 97 cm, staff length 199 cm
A cavalry standard made of double silk, edged with fringes. The
centre of the flag field on both sides holds the embroidered coat
of arms of the Virovitica County. Above the coat of arms the
embroidered motto reads: PRO: DEO: REGE: ET: LEGE, ('For God,
king and law'), and below the coat of arms the year: MDCCLXXXX
(1790). The flagstaff, similar to a tournament lance, ends with a
heart-shaped finial.
J. Borosak-Marijanovic, Zastave kroz stoljeca, Zagreb,
1996, page 113.
it is worth of noteing that roughly in the same time
Virovitica county had the county flag as well, which was red with
the shield from the CoA, and same motto (see
above)
Zeljko Heimer , 28 September 1999
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