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Biograd na moru (Zadar, Croatia)

Grad Biograd na moru

by Zeljko Heimer, 4 October 2003

Overview
Coat of Arms

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Overview

Biograd na moru (meanig Biograd on the sea/by the sea) is a city in Zadar County some 20 km south of Zadar. The attribute "on the sea" is to differenciate from Beograd, capital of Serbia (linguistically the two are the same names, of course), but also from much smaller Biograd near Nevesinje in B&H (eastern Herzegovina).
The rest is summarised from the site Grad Biograd na moru <www.biograd.org>:
The first, old Venetian coat of arms of Biograd is recorded from 1574. The new coat of arms was designed by one Simicic from Zadar after an idea of Šimo Ljubic (1822-1896), a known historian. This coat of arms is still in use. It is quartered, first and fourth on a chequy gules and azure, an Old Croatian crown or, and second and third, azure on a base vert a tower or with gates sable.
Originally, the shield was crowned as a symbol of royal and coronation city and was inscribed "Insigni civitatis Albae maris Biograd" ("Arms of White City at Sea Biograd"). During the socialism the crown was replaced with a red five-pointed star, that was removed in early 1990's.
The flag is not mentioned, nor have I noticed any city flag in use in Biograd in several last years I visited