Posavina Canton (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

Bosanskoposavski Kanton, Canton 2

Last modified: 2004-11-13 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer, 10 June 2004

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Previous Symbols

See also:

• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Clickable Map of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Subdivisions of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Municipalities:

• Domaljevac
• Odzak
• Orasje

The Flag

On a site at <www.posavina.de> you can see a flag captioned "new flag of Posavski canton" that obviously represent a flag of the Canton 2 , i.e. "Bosanskoposavski kanton".
The symbolic is quite obvious:
- Croats - chequy field, red stripe
- Bosniaks - f-d-ls in a bend (sinistre here) and green stripe
- Sava river - blue and white wavy - Posavina meaning "region by Sava river", "posavski" being adjective form, "Bosanska Posavina" is of course, "region by Sava in Bosnia" - since Sava as any other iver have two banks, the other one being in Croatian region of Slavonia (cf. Brodsko-posavska zupanija).
However, I believe that the flag represented here could not at all be called "new". I believe that it goes about the flag adopted, maybe not so long ago, but certainly before the time when OHR &qu