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Cadjavica (Virovitica-Podravina, Croatia)

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by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005



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Overview

Cadavica (C<ad|avica) is a community in the Virovitica and Podravina County some 30 km southeast of Virovitica. Population around 3,000, some 800 in the village of the town name.   The coat of arms is shown on the County web site at <www.viroviticko-podravska-zupanija.hr> that  also explains that Cadavica was in 1852 granted the marketplace rights. The coat of arms may have been granted at the same time. Certainly it look similar in style like many coat of arms of the agriculturally progressive settlements granted in the Hungarian part of the Habsburg Monarchy in the time. The modern artistic layout must have been adopted around 2000 together with a flag, but I do not know it yet.   The coat of arms of Cadavica is vert a rake in pale, a pichfork and a scythe in saltire all argent and in base a ploughshare or.
Željko Heimer, 17 November 2004

The flag hoisted in the County Asembly Hall alowes us to fill the info. It is red with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.
As explained before, an other somewhat similar Coat of Arms was used initially in 1990's, but was