Plasnica (Municipality, Macedonia)

Плашница

Last modified: 2007-05-05 by ivan sache
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Municipal flag of Plasnica, horizontal and vertical versions - Images by Mello Luchtenberg & António Martins, 26 November 2006

• Presentation of Plasnica
• Municipal flag of Plasnica

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• Macedonia
• Macedonia: Municipal flags

Presentation of Plasnica

The municipality of Plasnica (4,545 inhabitants; 54.44 sq. km), located in western Macedonia, is made of the village of Plasnica and the three settlements of Dvorci, Licičani and Preglovo.
Plasnica is one of the two Macedonian municipalities with an ethnic Turkish majority (4,446; 98%), the other being Centar Župa.

Ivan Sache, 26 November 2006

Municipal flag of Plasnica

The flag elements and colours seem to have been derived from the municipal coat of arms, whose upper part is charged with a yellow crescent (symbolizing the Turkish population?) pointing upwards surmonted by a red star outlined in yellow (therefore similar to the star of Socialist Yugoslavia and Socialist Macedonia) and placed over a red disk.
The flag is shown as vertical on the Macedonian Ministry of Local Self-Government website (first version, page no longer online), and as horizontal on the Macedonian Ministry of Local Self-Government website (second version, page no longer online, either).

Ivan Sache, 26 November 2006