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Sežana (Municipality, Slovenia)

Municipal flag of Sežana - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 April 2004

Municipal flag of Sežana
Coat of arms of Sežana
Former flag and emblem of Sežana

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Municipal flag of Sežana

The flag and arms of Sežana are prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu in zastavi Občine Sežana, adopted on 21 September 2006 and published on 12 October 2006 in the Slovene official gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 105/2006.

The flag is vertical, in proportions 2:1, with the municipal coat of arms outlined in white in the center and the writing OBČINA SEŽANA along the bottom. The red colour is prescribed as Pantone 187c.
The municipal website (page no longer online) provides material submitted to the Municipal Council for the adoption of the Decision. The aim of the new Decision was to modernize the former design "technically" also by providing vectorized files, colour standardization etcn. as well as modernization in some terms (I guess this mostly goes for the seals). A font was prepared in electronic form as well, named Friz Quadrata, for the use in official inscription (also that on the flag), also after the original designs by Sedej and Škof.
The flag is prescribed only in vertical version by the Decision ("the flag is shaped as a vertical rectangle with sides in proportions 1:2"), and while the horizontal hoisting is not explicitly forbiden, it is not mentioned. Possibly the "Integral graphic identity" (Celostna grafička podoba, CGP), which is mentioned throughout the Decision (which seems to be a booklet prepared as a manual), includes some words about the horizontal version as well.
The CGP include the construction details, says the Decision, the only that is shown on the material is that the coat of arms is centered and its width is 3/5 of the flag width. The height of the coat of arms is 1.28 of its width. The height of the letters is 1/10 of the flag height.
The final prescription of the Decision superseded the previous decision regulating the symbols, Sklep o simbolu Občine Sežana, 011-1/84-1, 24 August 1985.

Željko Heimer, 19 October 2006

Coat of arms of Sežana

Coat of arms of Sežana - Image by Željko Heimer, 19 October 2006

The coat of arms of Sežana is "ules a bent tree issuant from a pot sable".

Željko Heimer, 19 October 2006

Former flag and emblem of Sežana

Former flag and emblem of Sežana - Images by Željko Heimer, 5 July 2005

A picture on the municipal website (page no longer online) shows a table flag with a dark red field with the coat of arms of Sežana in the middle and the writing OBČINA SEŽANA below the coat of arms.

The municipality of Sežana has been using this emblem since at least the 1990s, apparently in different colour combinations. Earlier it seems that the emblem was silver on purple, but since the mid-1990s, a dark-red on white emblem has been prevailing.
The emblem is mentioned although not described in the municipal Statutes Statut Občine Sežana, adopted on 20 April 1995, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 28/95. The new municipal statutes Statut Občine Sežana, adopted on 22 April 1999, and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni list Republike Slovenije, 40/99 says that the municipality has a coat of arms and a flag, to be prescribed in a further Decision.
The emblem shows a pine-tree in the wind typical for the region and locally called kraška bura. The shape of the tree looks like the map of the municipality, as it was before the administrative reform of 1995 and since the 1980s. The emblem was designed by two students in architecture from Ljubljana, Dušan Sedej and Dean Škof (information obtained from Pr. Ranko Novak, September 2003).
The flag and arms were prescribed by Decision Sklep o simbolu Občine Sežana, 011-1/84-1, 24 August 1985. I assume that even if the symbol was "adopted in the late 1970s" in a contest, as claimed by the aforementioned material, it was formally adopted only in 1985.

Željko Heimer, 19 October 2006