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I was recently contacted from the staff of the Croatian
Historical Museum, informing me that they have put up their site
with lots of images of the items they are preserving. For those
who are not familiary with the exhibition on flags from their
collection that the Museum made in 1996, this is a great place to
start. The catalogue of that exhibition still remains the most
through book on Croatian flags. The Museum site is at <jagor.srce.hr>.
However, naigating through the site is not quite easy, so if you
are interested only in flags, go directly to the page considering
their flag collection <jagor.srce.hr/hpm/k0006003.htm>.
and for even more flags (those that are parts of other
collections), see: <agor.srce.hr/hpm/predmee.htm#flag>.
There is also many other interesting stuff of all kinds on the
site - heraldry, maps, uniforms, to name few that are flag
related .
Zeljko Heimer, 17 April 1999
Here are few explanations on the coronation flags used on the
Habsburg coronation ceremonies in the city of Bratislava (then
called Pozsony in Hungarian, Pozun in Croatian and maybe
something more). My main source is [bor96]
exhibition cataloge of the Croatian Hitorical Museum in Zagreb
that I shall exhensivly quote. There exisits [bor96a] the same book in English.
Translation is mine from the Croatian version. [My comments in
brackets.] This book deals with Croatian vex-history, so it is no
wander that the focus is much on the Croatian flags used on the
ceremonies.
Quoting from footnote 64 on page 42 (the main text here only
mentiones the coronation flags):
" The Ceremonies of crowning the Habsburgs for the
Hungarian-Croatian kings was held in Pozun [Bratislava]. For such
occasions were being made flags of the kingdoms, prinicipalities
and adjoined lands, and so the flags of the Croatian Kingdoms
[i.e. Croatia, Slavonia, Dalmatia] that would in a symbolical way
highlight their sovereignity. Those [flags] were in the shape of
the cavalry two-tailed flags and adorned with painted coat of
arms of the kingdom and the date of the corronation. Flag HPM/PMH
inv. nr. 11751 [this is reference to such flag in inventory of
the Museum, so latter on]. See more in Stefan Holcik:
"Krunovacne Slavnosti Bratislava 1563 -1830",
1986."
The page 61 o