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by Zeljko Heimer, 18 June 2003
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The modern artistic redention was adopted around 1995 and
seems to have replaced the Previous Flag and
Coat of Arms by now in most cases.The flag and the Coat of Arms
shown as "Previous" are two
previously used variants of the heraldically the same thing.
The 2001 Statutes of the city (as no doubt the previous statutes
also) blazon the coat of arms naming the beast a hipopanther:
Azure a Hipopanther Or. The arms originate from 14th century.
The 2001 Statutes also include in the preamble description of the
traditional flag of Cres, that was used by the medieval city and
her ships "for at least seven centuries". The flag is
described as "striped blue and golden-yellow with the coat
of arms in the middle". Unfortunately, I have no managed to
find out what this looked like exactly (e.g. how many stripes or
even if the number was relevant).
The modern flag is, as required by the Ministry of Administration
rules, monocoloured, light blue with the coat of arms in the
middle, bordered yellow.
I believe that the modern artistic redention is designed by
Heraldika d.o.o. from Rijeka, but I have no proves for that.
Sources: Grad Gres <www.cres.hr>,
Statut Grada Cresa, 11. listopada 2001, Službene novine
Primorsko goranske županije Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta
heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke baštine primorsko-goranske
županije, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja
Rijeke, 2002. [osg02].
Today Cress has about 3000 ihabitants. In 1992 administrative
reform it was gvien community status, but was upgraded to city in
1997 (due to historical tradition and its position on island
where number of
inhabitants can not be used as qualification of civic
"rights" - similar case we saw with Bakar, and shall be
observed with many other cities on islands and coastal region).
Cres is connected with a bridge over a tight chanel with the
southern island Lošinj. The two were/are often known as one
item named Osor (that is the name of the place where the bridge
is).
Zeljko Heimer, 18 June 2003
The flag and the Coat of Arms are adopted on 2nd January 1995, with a amendments latter that year corrcecting the wording of the description (heraldical left and right!). The new 2001 statute repeats the earlier (and recounts on historical background and a historical striped flag!) while the 2001 decision determines details of usage (where and when) and introduces also a Ceremonial Flag in gonfalon form. There is unfortunalely