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The community of Ražanac is in the Zadar County, about 20
km northeast of Zadar at the coast of
the Velebit chanel that enters deeply towards south in the middle
of the Eastern Adriatic coast. About 3,000 inhabitants, some 1,000
in the place of the same name itself. The modern settlement was
established in 1507 when the people descended towards the coast
for the easier defence against the Turks - and they begun
building a forthress. The fortress is nowdays only a ruin,
destroyed by Turks in 1570.
The county web site includes the official
gazette that includes the "Proposal for the decision on
the description and the use of the coat of arms and the flag of
Ražanac": Prijedlog Odluke o opisu i uporabi grba i
zastave opcine Ražanac, 27.09.2006, Službeni glasnik
Zadarske županije, br. 16/06, 15.12.2006.
I guess that the decision is titled "proposal" because
the approval from the central authorities is still being waited
upon, although I see no reason for it to be denied. In any case,
beside the title, there is no other hint that this is not a
definitive decision.
The coat of arms of Ražanac is: azure a tower embatteled
with a window and doors opened followed with eight bees or,
three-two-three. I located no images, but I think that this mean
that the tower is surrounded with bees - althogh we should yet
see.
Since the community is composed of nine settlements - Ražanac
plus eight neighbouring places, the coat of arms may represent
those: the tower for Ražanac itself and the eight bees for
the other eight places.
The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle. No
yellow border aroudn the coat of arms is mentioned, but that does
not mean that there shall be none.
Željko Heimer, 8 June 2007