Pozega-Slavonia County (Croatia)

Požesko-slavonska županija

Last modified: 2005-06-17 by dov gutterman
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by Željko Heimer, 3 November 2000

• The Flag
• Coat of Arms
• Historical Flags of the Pozega Riflemen
• Slavonia

See also:

• Croatia
• Clickable Map of Croatia
• Croatia - Historical Flags - Overview and Index
• Croatia - Counties and Minicipalities
• Slavonia and Baranja Croatian Party, S-BHS

Cities:

• Pozega
• Lipik
• Pakrac
• Pleternica

Communities:

• Brestovac
• Caglin
• Jaksic
• Kaptol
• Kutjevo
• Velika

Other Sites:

• Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME
• Croatian History Museum site

The Flag

I have bought a book: Csáki, Imre: A magyar kira'lysa'g va'rmegyéinek ci'merei a XVIII-XIX. században, Corvina, Budapest, 1995 , in which are shown (one big coat of arms in each page!) all the coats of arms of the counties of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII. and XIX. centuries.
The coat of arms of the Hungarian "Pozsega vármegye" [Pozega county] was: a cartouche shield, divided per fess: 1- azure two lions or affrontés fighting each other with swords, the dexter one holding an argent and or sword with a royal crown or at the top, the sinister one holding a sword or with a ribbon gules along the sword and a royal crown or at the top; 2- tierced per fess [divided in three per fess]: a- divided per fess, A-azure; B- sable a wavy fess argent; b- vert a running marten natural; c- divided per fess, A-sable a wawy fess argent; B- azure. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown or. The coat of arms was adopted first in 1748.
If it seems rather complicated, it isn't when one sees the picture. The upper part of the shield shows on blue two lions fighting with swords, then the lower part whows fives stripes (1:1:2:1:1), alternatively, blue, black with a wavy line in white, green with a marten, black with a wavy line in white and blue.
Pascal Vagnat, 28 June 1998

Rather like what I saw - even if I was not sure then, with this description ,now I can tell it is the same blazon.
Željko Heimer, 2 July 1998

Several days ago I had chance to get a quick glance of the flag of Pozega-Slavonia . You must bear in mind that the image above is a reconstruction from that quick glance, and is therefore only a draft.