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Croatia - Historical Flags (Pre-1848)

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Croatian Historical Museum

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


Coronation Flags

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."
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