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There are local elections in Croatia this Sunday, and this was
a chance to see on TV several local flags. One that deserves to
be considered it the flag of Vukovar - the city in east of
Croatia that bacame the symbol of Croatian stouggle against
aggression.
The flag is a horizontal triband of blue-white-blue, where the
shade of blue is very light, similar to what is usually
represented on Argentinian flags (celestial blue). In the middle,
as it is usual for Croatian local flags, there is the coat of
arms of Vukovar - red with white castle under the image of Mary
(?). Over all it is an escutcheon of irregular shape blue with
golden lion (?) holding and axe.
Of course, the flag is not used in Vukovar itself at the moment,
the city being under protection of the UN, but the results of
these elections should change this as one of the main
prerogatives of the reintegration of Eastern Slavonia and Baranya
in Croatia. The flag that could be seen in Vukovar these days is
the UN flag, and as it was reported in TV news, the Serb
tricolours are hoisted on several buildings of the local Serb
government.
Zeljko Heimer, 13 April 1997
I saw yesterday the TV-news on Arte (french-german network)
with a short program about the Croatian elections and the
situation of Eastern Slavonia. In a Croatian house were flying
the Croatian national flag and a Vukovarian flag slightly
different from the one posted by Zeljko. The city shield was on a
plain sky blue field, omitting the white band of Zeljko's
picture.
Ivan Sache, 16 April 1997
I haven't seen that one, but I'll make a note on my pages that
this one is also used. I guess that this is either an unofficial
flag or some older variant. I am inclined to believe that the
striped version is official since I saw in on the election posts.
Of course, more details would be known only when the normal
government would be established there.
By the way, I have seen today another photo from the elections in
the area around Vukovar, with a great Serb flag hoisted on the
wall behind the electors, having the light blue shield with the
white eagle etc.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 April 1997
The coat of arms of Vukovar is modernized version of the
previous arms, picturing a maiden standing at the city gates
holding a blue shield with golden wolf. The wolf is canting the
city name (Croatian vuk = wolf). The flag is triband of
blue-white-blue. In mid1990's the flag without the white stripe
was also occasionally used.
Zeljko Heimer
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