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by Zeljko Heimer, 26 August 2003
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C<avle (Cavle) is a community just north-east of Rijeka
with about 6500 inhabitants. It includes the old fort of Grobnik
and Grobnicko polje (Grobnik field) that is pictured in the 18th
century Rijeka County coat of arms as well as in the current coat
of arms of the Coast and Gorski Kotar County, with the
snow-capped mountain Platak behind it. The name Cavle has a
similar sound to the word for spike/nail, but whether this has to
do with the spike mace in the coat of arms I am not sure. In any
case, the sword and spiked mace are already shown in the 1786
quarter of the mentioned county coat of arms above the landscape
of Grobnik, and no doubt these two are connected. Grobnik field
is today most well know for a automotodrome.
The coat of arms is: Gules, a Spiked Mace and a Sabre in saltire
both Argent hilted Or.
The Cavle web site I visited in 1997 (now on <www.geocities.com/Baja/Trails/8020/baza.html>;
this was one of the first community sites on-line that showed
coat of arms, at least the one I found among the few with
vexi-heraldical contents at the early
days) show the coat of arms as blazoned above, but Oštric [osg02] showes it slightly