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by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2005
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Mikleuš is a community in the Virovitica and Podravina
County some 40 km southeast of Virovitica
along the main road towards Osijek. Population just over 2,000
with half of the number in the village of the same name.
The coat of arms is shown on the County web site at <www.viroviticko-podravska-zupanija.hr>
possibly adopted in mid-1990's. The coat of arms of
Mikleuš is Gules a bend between three balls and an oak twig
all or. The three balls (oranges, apples?) are no dbout
attributes of St. Nicolas, the namesake of the community and
probably its patron, too. The flag is green with the coat of arms
in the middle. This was reported by Tomislav Sipek.
Željko Heimer, 18 November 2004
The three balls are not fruits but purses. St. Nicolas was Bishop of Myra in the IVth century. The city of Myra, located in Asia Minor, was the capital city of Lycia under Eastern Emperor Theodosius II (408-450), declined in the VIIth century and was abandoned in the XIIth century. At the end of the XIth century, merchants from Bari (Italy) stole St. Nicolas' relics in Myra and brought them to Bari, whose pa