Metkovic (Dubrovnik-Neretva, Croatia)

Grad Metkovic

Last modified: 2004-03-06 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer

• Overview
• Coat of Arms

See also:

• Dubrovnik-Neretva County
• Croatia
• Neretva

Other sites:

• Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME

Overview

I found in the local informative-economical newspaper Dolina Neretve (the valey of Neretva), montly issued in Metkovic and surroundings this article:

Metkovic gets the arms and the flag

On the lattest session of the City council of Metkovic, councilers have accepted (third time now) the proposals for the arms and the flag presented by the academic painter Nikola Vockovic. He got the job by the City Government to make the solution for the arms. The former two proposals were accepted by the City Council, but were rejected by the commision of the Ministry of Administration, because they didn't follow the rules of heraldics: This time the proposal got the green light from the comission before it was put in the agenda of the City Council session. These arms are historically based on the arms of Neretva (Narenta) which are described in Put oko svijeta [A voyage around the world, Zeljko Heimer] (circa 1330 AD) by an anonymous spanish friar. The new arms could be described as halfcircled quadratic shield with 1st and 4th field blue, and 2nd and 3rd silver