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by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
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Several days ago I recevied info from the visitor of my pages
sending me drawing of the new Coat of Arms of the
Hercegovina-Neretva Canton (HNK). I was retaher sceptic at first
as he did not reply any further questions I had, but just a few
days ago I saw the same Coat of Arms depicted on the police
uniforms in Mostar (on an unrelated TV news report). Today
I received info on the flag and confirmation of that Coat of Arms
from an other visitor. I am now sufficiently convinced that the
info is genuine though we should thrive to obtain the official
documentation, I have no serious doubt that it shall only confirm
what is presented here.
The coat of arms of HNK is a golden bordered blue shield with
three white wavy stripes and light blue chief with golden
nine-pointed star. The adoption of the symbols of this
canton was quite difficult process and the solution finally
adopted is an obvious compromise to avoid any ethnical reference.
The wavy lines no doubt refer to the Neretva river that is
important in the life of the people here, but also to the sea
coast - HNK being the only canton having any coast in B&H,
however small. Three lines possibly also refer to the three
consitutional nations of B&H. The nine-pointed star refer to
the nine communities of the Canton. The flag is in ratio
3:5, to match the flag of the Federation. It is horizontally
divided in five stiripes of red over white over blue over white
over green with the coat of arms in the middle. The
red-white-green stripes refer to the Federation of B&H and to
the Croat and Bosniak majorities, while the blue stirpe in the
middle sigifies the Neretva river. I estimate the adoption date
to be in late 2004.
Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
Rejected proposal for the cantonal flag
by Željko Heimer
Some time ago (over a year, I believe) Jaume Olle'
presented an unidentified flag from Bosnia and Herzegovina that
he spoted on some TV coverage from Mostar. The flag was a
horizontal triband of Spanish type clue-white-blue with the arms
of Bosnia and Herzegovina (fleur de lys and bend) offcentered
towads the hoist.
Afterwards I included the flag image on my pages under
Unidentified Flags, and now I received some information about it
from a visitor of the pages. He claims that this is an
"unofficial variant of a flag proposed for the flag of
Herzegovina-Neretva county" of the Federation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina. According to him, the proposal was rejected by the
parlament of the County, while the final solution for the design
is under consideration (without a clue what this design might
be).
Željko Heimer, 1 January 1998
I believe that Hercegovina-Neretva has no flag yet. HN being
the most mixen Croat-Bosniak canton (Mostar is capital), so the
political will is there most difficult and question of the flag
is probably left out, as it would surely stirr the spirits and
would not do anything useful.
Željko Heimer, 25 June 2002
by Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005
Flag of the cantonal police - It is light blue bordered
golden, with the police patch in the middle. The patch contains
the Coat of Arms and the inscription POLICIJA above, MUP
(Ministry of Interior) below, and on each side HERCEGOVACKO and
NERETVANSKI - the name of the canton.
Željko Heimer, 13 February 2005