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Popovača (Municipality, Sisak-Moslavina County, Croatia)

Flag of Popovača - Image by Željko Heimer, 14 December 2008

Flag of Popovača
Coat of arms of Popovača
Ceremonial flag of Popovača
Former symbols of Popovača (1994-1995)

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Flag of Popovača

The symbols of Popovača are prescribed by Decision Odluka o izmjeni Odluke o grbu i zastavi Općine Popovača, adopted on 4 May 1995 in the Municipality and published in the official gazette Slućbene novine Općine Popovača, No. 2.
The symbols are described in Article 4 of the Municipality Status, adopted on 15 October 2001 by the Municipality Assembly.

The flag (photo) is described in Article 9 as "white, bordered with a yellow ribbon. In the middle of the flag on its vertical axis is set the coat of arms of the Municipality. The flag is produced in proportions 1:2, while the height of the coat of arms is equal to a half of the flag's width".

Željko Heimer, 3 February 2015

Coat of arms of Popovača

Coat of arms of Popovača - Image by Željko Heimer, 16 December 2002

The coat of arms of Popovača is prescribed in Article 4 of the aforementioned Decision, as follows:

The coat of arms of the Municipality of Popovača is shield-shaped with two thirds being blue and one third being green. On the vertical axis of the shield is a red building with the white portal of the Moslavački costle on a blue background. In the portal, on a blue shield is a part of the coat of arms of the Erdödy, that is Bakac family, of 1489 (a white deer on a white wheel). Behind the building is the white belfry of the St. Ann Church in Osekovo. On the lower third of the shield on a green hill beneath the building is a white semi-circular wreath of bunches of grapes and grapevine leaves.

Željko Heimer, 3 February 2015

Ceremonial flag of Popovača

Ceremonial flag of Popovača - Image by Željko Heimer, 14 December 2008

A vertical flag is used as the ceremonial flag. It is white with five square tails in the base and is bordered all around with a thin golden border (with fringe?).

Željko Heimer & Tomislav Čipek, 3 July 2004

Former symbols of Popovača

Former flag (horizontal and vertical versions) and coat of arms of Popovača (reconstruction) - Images by Željko Heimer, 3 February 2015

The first symbols of Popovača were prescribed by Decision Odluka o grbu i zastavi Općine Popovača, adopted on 29 December 1994 by the Municipality Assembly and published in Službene novine Općine Popovača, No. 5.
The symbols were not approved by the Ministry of Administration.

The flag is described in Article 9 as a a five-striped flag, white-red-white-blue-white in proportions 1:1:5:1:1, with the coat of arms in the centre.
Article 10 prescribes the flag for vertical hoisting with the red stripe at the viewer's left and the coat of arms properly rotated.

The description of the coat of arms in Article 6 is somewhat different from the subsequent description, but virtually the same in contents, except "three green tree-tops" added on each side of the central figure.

Željko Heimer, 3 February 2015