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![[Flag of Koper]](../images/s/si-050.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
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Koper is an important port in the "head of Istria" peninsula (hence the Italian name Capodistria). The municipality is bilingual. Its official name is Mestna obcina Koper - Commune Citta' di Capodistria.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 August 2002
The flag and arms are prescribed by decision Odlok o grbu,
znaku, zastavi in drugih elementih celostne podobe Mestne obcine
Koper, adopted on 18 January 1997, and published in the official
local gazette Uradne objave, 3/98. This decision was amended
by Spremembe in dopolnitve odloka o grbu, znaku, zastavi in drugih
elementih celostne podobe Mestne obcine Koper published in the
official local gazette Uradne objave, 6/98.
The texts of these decisions are available on the
Koper municipal website.
The flag is rectangular in ratio 1:2, blue with the municipal symbol in the middle.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 August 2002
![[Coat of arms of Koper]](../images/s/si)050.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer
In 1997 Koper adopted a new artistical redention of the coat of arms, based on a stone carving preserved in the city, but retaining the basic design of the previously used arms. The sun without the shield shape is called a symbol of the community.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 August 2002
![[Former coat of arms of Koper]](../images/s/si)050o.gif)
by Zeljko
Heimer
Since the mid-1980s and until the new symbols were adopted, similar symbols were used, but the sun was rendered symbolically composed of eight curved elements.
Zeljko Heimer, 17 August 2002
by Zeljko Heimer
The former municipal flag was blue with the former coat of arms in the middle
Goran Kalister, 26 June 2003