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Zapresic (Zagreb County, Croatia)

Grad Zaprešić

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image by Željko Heimer, 27 December 2009



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Overview

The coat of arms of Zapresic is blazoned quartered Azure and Argent, a Cross counterchanged. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the middle. According to an unconfirmed story, the yellow colour of the flag is chosen by the influence of the papal flags, as the flag was being adopted in the time immediately following the visit of pope John Paul II to Croatia in 1994. Zapresic was incorporated into city of Zagreb, as separate community until 1993, and in 1995 it gains the status of a city. Adopted: around 1995 (?)
Source: Authors observations, photos of flags hoisted in Zapresic Table flag of Zapresic, ca. 1997, author's collection.
Željko Heimer

The new 2009 Statutes repeats the description of the coat of arms and the flag from the 2008 consolidtaed text, which, I believe includes the same description as its original 2001 Statutes, which in turn probably repeats the previous ones. The description is: "a blue shield with diagonally inverted white (silver) cross" - not very precise and hard to guess that it means actually: quartered azure and argent a cross overall counterchanged. The flag is described as yellow with the coat of arms in the centre of it in "hight 1.6:1 to the length of the shorter side of the flag". If I interpret that correctly, it means that the height of the coat of arms is 62,5% of the flag width.
- Statut Grada Zaprešica (procišceni tekst), 07.04.2008, Službene novine Grada Zaprešoca, br. 2/2008, 15.04.2008.
- Statut Grada Zaprešica, 14.07.2009, Službene novine Grada Zaprešoca, br. 4/2009, 15.07.2009.
Željko Heimer, 27 December 2009


Vertical Flag


image by Željko Heimer, 27 December 2009


Coat of Arms


image by Željko Heimer, 27 December 2009