Medjimurje County (Croatia)

Medjimurska zupanija

Last modified: 2005-06-17 by dov gutterman
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by Željko Heimer

• Overview
• Vertical Flag
• Coat of Arms
• 1993 Flag (?)
• 1994 Flag

See also:

• Croatia
• Clickable Map of Croatia
• Croatian Counties and Municipalities
• Democratic Union of Medimurje, MDS
• Medimurje Party, MS

Municipalities:

Cities:

• Cakovec
• Mursko Središce
• Prelog

Communities:

• Belica
• Dekanovec
• Domašinec
• Donja Dubrava
• Donji Kraljevec
• Donji Vidovec
• Gorican
• Gornji Mihaljevec
• Kotoriba
• Mala Subotica
• Nedelišc'e
• Orehovica
• Podturen
• Pribislavec
• Selnica
• Strahoninec
• Sveta Marija
• Sveti Juraj na Bregu
• Sveti Martin na Muri
• Šenkovec
• Štrigova
• Vratišinec

Overview

The web page <www.medjimurje.coml> (defunct) mentioned in Croatian something about the coat of arms of Medjimurje (the law maybe). It is just a sentence. But could anyone translate it?
Pascal Vagnat, 24 December 1998

I guess that it means: "Also, a proposal for a decree featuring modifications and complements about the Coat of Arms and the flag of the Zupanija (county) will be submitted/presented."
T. T. Le, 24 December 1998

Since the new flag and Coat of Arms were adopted on 25 September 1996, and the article is just several weeks before that, I guess it gives hints about it. At that time the Coat of Arms, adopted sometime in 1993 or so, was changed so that the red and white field were interchanged, for a reason that I do not know. The former flag, that was simply a vertical (at least, I never saw horizontal version) banner of arms was chnaged to wither and red vertically divided bicolour with (new) Coat of Arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 31 December 1998

The Flag of Medjimurje county, adopted by the Assembly on 25 September 1996 (have no info on confirmation by the Ministry). The new Coat of Arms (pictured on the flag) is different from previously used one in position of the red a