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![[Flag of Gornji Petrovci]](../images/s/si-031.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
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The coat of arms and flag are prescribed by decision Odlok o
uporabi grba in zastave Obcine Gornji Petrovci, adopted on 1
April 1998 and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni
list Republike Slovenije, nr. 31, pp. 2050-2, 18 April1998, with
effect on 3 May1998.
Actually, I am inclined to believe that the basic layout of the coat
of arms and flag might already have been at least hinted in the
Statute of the Municipality, but the decision prescribes them in
details. Unfortunately, the text in the official gazette is not
accompanied with drawings.
The symbols were designed by Valt Jurecic of Heraldika d.o.o. and Heraldica Slovenica, who kindly provided drawings from which the images shown on this page were made.
The flag of Gornji Petrovci is of a design characteristic of the
Slovenian municipal flags. An cross of unusual shape is made of a
combination of an horizontal division in three stripes and a vertical
division in three unequal stripes, which is often known as
Canadian pale. Therefore, the flag has
four rectangles, one in each corner, while the main field forms an
unusual wide cross. The vertical arm of the cross is square and bears
some attribute from the coat of arms as a rule.
The flag overall ratio is 2:5. It can be easily shown that the corner
rectangles should be 1/3 H x 3/4 H, H being the
flag height.
The flag of Gornji Petrovci has such a blue cross on a white
field, with the otter and fish from the coat of
arms as central attribute.
The aforementioned decision gives an ambigous size of the corner
rectangles as V/3 : 2 x V/3, V being the flag
height, which however cannot give the central field to be a square.
It must be V/3 x 3V/4, as explained above.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 October 1999
![[Coat of arms of Gornji Petrovci]](../images/s/si)031.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
The coat of arms can be blazoned as:
Per fess, in chief argent, fourteen houses, seven and seven, azure roofed gules; in base azure, an otter argent holding in its mouths a fish or.
Valt explained that the fourteen houses represent the fourteen settlements in the municipality. In traditional heraldry, a fourlegged animal with fish in jaws is always an otter (Lutra lutra [Mustelidae]; in Slovenian, vidra. The fish in jaws is the specific attribute of an otter, to differenciate it from a cat, dog, fox, wolf, etc. It is told that an otter is capable of carrying much bigger fishes holding them over the back, it is shown here regardant.
Zeljko Heimer, 9 January 2002
![[Vertical flag of Gornji Petrovci]](../images/s/si-031v.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
A vertical version of the flag is prescribed, as the horizontal flag rotated 90 degrees.
Zeljko Heimer, 16 October 1999