Zadar County (Croatia)

Zadarska zupanija

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by Zeljko Heimer, 8 January 1999

• Overview
• Ceremonial Flag
• Coat of Arms

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• Croatia
• Clickable Map of Croatia
• Croatian Counties and Municipalities

Cities:

• Zadar
• Benkovac
• Biograd na moru
• Nin
• Obrovac
• Pag

Municipalities:

• Bibinje
• Galovac
• Gracac
• Jasenice
• Kali
• Kolan
• Kukljica
• Lisane Ostrovicke
• Novigrad
• Pakostane
• Pasman
• Polaca
• Policnik
• Posedarje
• Povljana
• Preko
• Privlaka
• Razanac
• Sali
• Starigrad
• Sukošan
• Sveti Fuilip i Jakov
• Škabrnje
• Tkon
• Vir
• Zemunik Donji

Other sites:

• Collection of Croatian Local Flags at FAME

Overview

County of Zadar (Zadarska z<upanija), Croatia. Adopted 18 June 1998. Ratio: 1:2.
Source: contact with the designer, Bojan Livakovic/, architect from Zagreb
Zeljko Heimer

Recently I was contacted by the autor of the new flag of the County of Zadar, Croatia, who provided me info on the issue: The County of Zadar (Zadarska z<upanija) was made by the partial territorial reorganization of Croatia on 1 January 1997, from the former county of Zadar-Knin (Zadarsko-kninska z<upanija - Didn't have a flag or Coat of Arms), by excluding from it some parts that more naturally belong to Sibenik surroundings. The former county did not addopt the flag not Coat of Arms.
The flag and Coat of Arms are adopted on 18-JUN-1998, as a result of public concurse, on which Bojan Livakovic/, architect from Zagreb, got the winning prize for his design.
Coat of Arms: Azure, a church of St. Cross Argent; in chief Argent, an olive branch proper.
Flag: horizontally wavy divided bicolour of white over blue, with golden bordered Coat of Arms of the County in the middle. Ratio 1:2.
Zeljko Heimer, 8 January 1999

The County of Zadar bears in her coat of arms the church of St. Cross on blue background, and a branch of olive in white chief. The flag is horizontaly wavy divided white over blue bicolour with the golden bordered coat of arms in the middle.
The ceremonial flag of type called gonfanon is not officially prescribed, but in use never the less. The church of St. Cross is in Nin, bulit in 9th century in old Croatian pre-romanic style. In Nin, today small town north of Zadar was in 864 AD establi