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Litija (Municipality, Slovenia)

by Željko Heimer

Municipal flag of Litija
Coat of arms of Litija
- Former coats of arms of Litija
Vertical flag of Litija

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Municipal flag of Litija

The flag and arms of Litija are prescribed by decision Odlok o grbu i zastavi Občine Litije, adopted on 25 March 2004.
On the municipal website are available the text of the decision, as well as its companion colour plates and construction sheet.

The flag is in proportion 1:2.5 (2:5), vertically divided into three equally wide blue, white and blue stripes, with the attributes from the coat of arms set in the middle. The decision states that "the attributes cover 1/3 of the white field". The construction sheet shows how this should be understood.

Željko Heimer & Pascal Gross, 18 April 2004

Coat of arms of Litija

by Željko Heimer

The coat of arms of Litija is an artistic improvement on the previous coat of arms: Azure an ancent jar over which flows a winding river in bend sinister on which is a man driving a boat by a long pole.

The ancient jar is named vaška situla. I suspect it is an archeological artefact found in the region. In the new design of the coat of arms, the ornamentation on the jar is also visible.
The river is the Sava, and the boat is the traditional means of transport over it in the region.

Željko Heimer, 18 April 2004

The type of boat driven through the water by a long pole is called a punt in English, but usually they are thought of more as flat-bottomed boats than the type shown here. I suppose the term gondola is also used (for instance, for the poled boats in Venice), but this doesn't appear to be shaped like that either.

James Dignan, 19 April 2004

In the Marais Poitevin (West of France), such a boat is called a plate (from plat, flat, as a reference to the flat bottom of the boat used in very shallow canals) and the pole used to move it is called a pigouille. The same kind of boat is used by the fishers and the oyster-farmers in the region of Bordeaux, and is called there a pinasse.

Ivan Sache, 19 April 2004

Former coat of arms of Litija