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by Zeljko Heimer, 2 March 2004
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Orebic is a small town at the tip of the Pelješac
peninsula (Pelješac is maybe also known to some for its
Italian name Sabioncello). There are about 5,000 inhabitants,
about the half of them living in the city itself. The inhabitants
of Orebic were traditionally captains of some fame, serving on
many large ships. The surrounding valleys are famous for very
quality vines, probably the most well know being the red wine
Dingac. The symbols in the coat of arms should therefore be quite
logical choice. Gules a navigational instrument or and in the
canton a bunch of grapes azure slipped of the second.
The coat of arms was being shown for a long time on
Hotelsko-turisticko poduzece Orebic - Opcina Orebic <www.orebic-htp.hr> (1 July
2002) though recently the site was revamped, not including it any
more...
I have no info on the flag as yet.
Zeljko Heimer, 15 Febuary 2004
It is most probably a sextant (from classical Latin 'sextans',
sixth, after 'sex', six), an instrument made of an articulate,
circulary
sector measuring one sixth of a circle, a lens and a mirror. By
allowing the measure of the angle betwe