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by Zeljko Heimer, 27 Febuary 2004
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Umag is a city in north western end of Istria (the Italian
name Umago is also official). The is about 13,000 inhabitants,
almost 8,000 of them living in the city itself. In 1992/93
administrative reform Umag was given status of a community, but
it was changed to the city status in 1997.
The official site of the city: Grad Umag <www.grad-umag.hr>
17.10.2003. contains the statutes of the city: Statut Grada
Umaga, 4.12.2001, Službene novine Grada Umaga. The Statutes
include the description of the coat of arms and the flag.
The coat of arms is a historical one (as claimed by the Statutes,
but I believe that this could be proved from other sources too):
azure a lion or standing atop two towers argent issuing from a
wavy sea in base. The coat of arms is bordered with a white
border in the modern representations.
The flag of Umag is described as "tyrquise", with the
coat of arms in the middle. However, I believe that the name of
the colour is only a fancy name for the light blue shade used in
the coat of arms. This flag may be adopted officially in
mid-1990's, as Tomislav šipek reported previous flags still
frequent in use in the city in 2003.
This Previous Flag, that may have been adopted
in 1960's or so, was basically th