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by Zeljko Heimer, 2 January 2005
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The coat of arms is Argent a Cross Gules. Similar coat of arms
is held by several other cities in the area, and probably
originates from the crusade period. The flag uses unusual brown
colour for the field, which is not fully confirmed.
Zeljko Heimer
Buje is a small city in northwest corner of inland Istria. It
is probably most famous in modern time for the electronic factory
"Digitron" situated there. Population totaling 5,500,
with about 3,500 in the city itself. Long ago (in 1996?) I
reported the flag of Buje as well as the coat of arms from some
source that I have not noted, but it was some weekly magazine or
so having a photo therefrom. I noted that the flag is brown with
the coat of arms in it. However, Tomislav Šipek visited Buje
recently and found out that the colour of the flag field is not
brown but rather dark red. The photo and lightning effects may
easily explain why I misjudged the colour. The colour brown is,
anyway, not among the allowed colours for the flag according to
the Croatian regulations (red, blue, green, yellow and white are
only allowed). Anyway, the flag hoisted at the city hall in Buje
is a vertical variant with golden border all around and with the
coat of arms off-set to top (similalry as the flags of
neighbouring Umag!).
Zeljko Heimer, 2 January 2005