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![[Flag of Gornji Petrovci]](../images/s/si-031.gif)
by Željko Heimer
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The coat of arms and flag of Gornji Petrovci are prescribed by decision Odlok o
uporabi grba in zastave Občine Gornji Petrovci, adopted on 1
April 1998 and published in the official Slovene gazette Uradni
list Republike Slovenije, 31/1998, 18 April 1998, with
effect on 3 May 1998.
The basic layout of the coat
of arms and flag might have been already hinted in the
Statutse of the Municipality, but the decision prescribes them in
details. The text in the official gazette is not
accompanied with drawings.
The symbols were designed by Valt Jurečič of Heraldika d.o.o. and Heraldica Slovenica, who kindly provided drawings from which the images shown on this page were made.
The flag of Gornji Petrovci is of a design characteristic of the Slovenian municipal flags. A cross of an unusual shape is made of a combination of an horizontal division in three stripes and a vertical division in three unequal stripes, which is often known as Canadian pale. Therefore, the flag has four rectangles, one in each corner, while the main field forms an unusual wide cross. The vertical arm of the cross is square and bears so