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Duga Resa is one of five cities in Karlovac county in Croatia.
In late 1990's, possibly 1999, was adopted new coat of arms and
the matching flag. The coat of arms is Vert six bars wavy Argent.
The flag is rather simple, according to the strict rules imposed
from the Ministry of Administration. It is green field with the
coat of arms in the middle. The Coat of Arms
is boreder in white, apparently. Ratio 1:2.
Six wavy bars certainly refer to big hidrographic power of the
region, though weather there are indeed six rivers to which the
six bars refer individually, or if it is a general representation
of waters, I can't tell. However, as I witnessed myself not long
ago spending a nice weeknd there, the region is indeed
"boiling" of the fresh mountinous waters in early
spring, surrounded with gentle green pastures.
The information was provided by a FAME
visitor in January 2002.
Before the adoption of this coat of arms, Duga Resa used
occasionally Coat of Arms-like emblem, but there was, as far as I
am aware, no flag to accompany it.
Željko Heimer, 17 May 2002
The previously used coat of arms/emblem (see: Previous
Coat of Arms) was: per fess wavy azure and vert, in chief a
curl sable, and in base chequy gules and argent. The curl might
be canting to go with the city name that can be translated as a
"long fringe" (though the etimologic connection is not
clear), but in any case, it is symbolic for the cotton industry
developed in the city.
The coat of arms seems to have been used sporadic, and the status
is unknown, no flag was reported to match it.
Željko Heimer, 5 July 2004
The web site of Duga Resa
includes a decision
on grant of use of the coat of arms to a local basketball club:
Odluka o korištenju imena i grba Grada Duge Rese
Košarkaškom klubu iz Duge Rese, 15.09.2005,
Službeni glasnik Grada Duge Rese, br. 8/2005, 24.10.2005.
The mentioned decision quotes the previous decision that adopted
the coat of arms and the flag: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Duge
Rese, Službeni glasnik Grada Duge Rese, br. 2/94 This
would mean that the wavy coat of arms is adopted much earlier
then I have originally assumed, i.e. in 1994.
The Statutes of the city of 2001 is available at <www.dugaresa.hr>.
It contains the description of the coat of arms and the flag. The
coat of arms is described to be in a shield of 13 alternatively
green and white wavy horizontal stripes of equal width, staring
with the green stripe at the top. The flag is described to be
green with overall ratio 1:2, with the coat of arms set in the
middle bordered with a yellow border. The height of the coat of
arms in the flag is 2/3 of the flag height.
Željko Heimer, 6 july 2007
There is an inconsistency that I found on the Heraldic-Art site. Namely, the
Statutes of Duga Resa that I quote above, expressly states that
there should be 13 wavy stripes in the Coat of Arms, while the Coat of Arms shown on the Heraldic-art site have
only 12 stripes!
There are numbers of possible explanations for the discrepancy,
as it seems starnge that the designer of the design would not
know how it looks like. Some of explanations include scope from
sheer ignorance of the designer (lack of care for the exact
design, which I doubt) to the possibility that the design was
changed by the city once adopted (on which the designer was not
informed). In any case, strange...
For the sake of full story, I send the drawings of this version
of the Coat of Arms, even if I am quite convinced that the
13-stripes design is what is used nowadays.
Željko Heimer, 21 October 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 21 October 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 6 july 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 21 October 2007
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image by Željko Heimer, 5 July 2004