Last modified: 2004-12-18 by dov gutterman
Keywords: croatia | dalmatia | checquy | lion | leopard | head | three | goat | star | sixpointed | river | marten | heraldry |
Links: FOTW homepage |
search |
disclaimer and copyright |
write us |
mirrors
.gif)
by Zeljko Heimer, 3 October 2000
See also:
Other Sites:
The arms of Croatia, checquy argent and gules, were originally
used by the medieval Kings of Croatia. They are attributed to
Demeter Zvonimir (d. 1089).
Jim Terzian
Checquy argent and gules. That seems to date from 1525. In the
9th century the Croats form a political entity, and their leader
takes the title of king in 929. In 1102, a succession crisis is
solved with the choice of the king of Hungary as king of Croatia.
The two kingdoms are ruled by the same ruler until the Turkish
conquest in 1526, though Croatia retains its institutions, its
governor or ban, and its coinage. On medieval coinage, the arms
of Croatia appear to be a mullet of six over a crescent (the
motif appears on coins as early as the late 12th century).
In 1525, under circumstances I have not yet cleared, the arms
"checquy argent and gules" were adopted, and remained
the arms of Croatia in the Habsburg achievements until 1918. They
were used on the flag of the puppe