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Varazdin County (Croatia)

Varaždinska zupanija

by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2000

Overview
Coat of Arms
1995 Concourse

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Other Sites:

Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME

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Bednja
Beretinec
Breznica
Breznièki Hum
Cestica
Donja Voca
Donji Martijanec
Jalzabet
Klenovnik
Kneginec Gornji
Ljubescica
Mali Bukovec
Marusevec
Petrijanec
Sracinec
Sveti Djurdj
Sveti Ilija
Trnovec Bartolovecki
Veliki Bukovec
Vidovec
Vinica
Visoko

Overview

The flag of Varaždin county is the same as the flag of the city of Varazdin, with addition of the county coat of arms.
Željko Heimer, 12 August 1996

The County of Varaždin is situated north of Zagreb, around the city of Varazdin, former capital of Croatia (until XVIII c.). The flag of the County is the same as the flag of the City, with County's arms added on it. The escutcheon is the arms of Erdody family that gave, among others, several Croatian bans - on a mount vert a wheel proper, issuant therefrom a deer proper.
Željko Heimer

I have bought a book: Csa'ki, Imre: A magyar kira'lysa'g va'rmegyéinek ci'merei a XVIII-XIX. sza'zadban, Corvina, Budapest, 1995 , in which are shown (one big coat of arms in each page!) all the coats of arms of the counties of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII. and XIX. centuries.
For Varazdin, the coat of arms of the Hungarian "Varasd va'rmegye" was: a circular shield with embellishments, quartered: 1- gules a crowned eagle tongued gules; 2- and 3- azure two six-pointed stars or between two wavy fesses argent; 4- gules a city wall with a tower argent, the door closed, stones apparent. On the whole an inescutche