Zagreb (Zagreb County, Croatia)

Last modified: 2004-07-31 by dov gutterman
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by Zeljko Heimer, 13 November 2002

• The Flag
• Previous Flags
• Coat of Arms
• Zagreb Districts
  • Tresnjevka (Tresnjevka)

See also:

• Zagreb - Historical Flags
• County of Zagreb
• Croatia

The Flag

I started to notice during this summer or maybe a moth or two beofre that the flags infront of the civic office buildings (there are quite a number of those in Zagreb) are being slowly changed. The Previous old blue flags with white silhueted CoA are by now all (or mostly) replaced with new blue flag with the coat of arms in full colours.
On the official site of Zagreb at <www.zagreb.hr> there are images of the CoA and the flag, and there is also link to the full text of the current Statute, text including the 1999 Statute and amendments of 2001 (which I don't kown if include any amendemns regarding the symbols): Statut Grada Zagreba, Službeni glasnik Grada Zagreba 19/99 Statutarna odluka o izmjenama i dopunama Statuta Grada Zagreba, Službeni glasnik Grada Zagreba 19/01 Statut Grada Zagreba (procišceni tekst), 19. 12. 2001
The article 8 determines the design of the CoA and the flag: "In blue field on a green hill a silver city with three