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Croatia - Presidential Flag

by Zeljko Heimer

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Blue flag with the presidential coat of arms, border red-white. Coat of arms is a 5x5 red-silver checquered shield (spanish type) surrounded with 5 rhombic shields, 2 left, 2 right and one below. The shields are of:

Slavonia: Blue with two silver rivers, red field in-between with walking marten, golden six-pointed star over the rivers.
Istria: White goat on blue, with red horns and hoofs.
Dalmatia: On blue three golden crowned leopard's heads 2:1.
Dubrovnik: Two red horizontal bars on blue.
Oldest Croatian: On blue a silver crescent under a golden six-pointed star.

There are golden and silver fringes hanging from all shields. Over all there is a red-silver-blue lace with golden letters RH.

The flag is used by the President of the Republic, and is often seen on the president's car, press conferences, receptions etc.
It is convenient to mention here that this flag and coat of arms, as also the Croatian national flag and coat of arms were designed by Miroslav Sutej, an academic painter from Zagreb, in 1990. Of course, the coat of arms of Croatia, and other coats of arms enclosed in it are much older, some of them being from the XI century, and using motives even of pre heraldic origin (see: Croatia - Coat of Arms).