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by Zeljko Heimer, 15 Febuary 2003
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The community of Petrijanec is about 25 km NW of
Varaždin, up the Drava river, in Varaždin County. The
main settlement Pertijanec has about 4,700 inhabitants (1993).
The coat of arms and the flag are described in the statutes of
the community: Statut Opcine Petrijanec, 27.03.2002,
Službeni vjesnik Varaždinske županije, 6/02.
Issued in the official gazette abailable at <www.glasila.hr>.
The CoA is shown on the county web site <www.varazdinska>, as well as
on the community site at <www.petrijanec.hr>,
that includes several graphic representations of the CoA and some
photos of the flag in use (not very clear, though).
The coat of arms is chequy of nine gules and argent and overall an
oval escutcheon bordered with golden Croatian wattle, in white
field black lined Community Hall on green base with a blue
spring. The central red cheque of the chequey field is not
visible, so it may have as well been blazoned as gules a cross
argent, but description in the statutes is clear that it is a 3x3
chequey field. The wattle oval is, as far as I could judge,
entirely the same as the one used in the military emblems (cf.
naval positional flags for Minister of defence and others of the
sort). Of course, military has no copyright on the wattle, it
being the part of Croatian tradition, but still there are so many
variations in layout that it can't be coincidence. Possibly
there is some e