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image by Željko Heimer, 9 July 2005
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Municipalities:
Goraz<dansko-podrinjski kanton (Canton of Gorazde and
Podrinje), the name of the region near Drina river - border river
through most of its course towards FR Yugoslavia)
Željko Heimer, 9 December 1999
Gorazde Kanton is now named Bosansko Podrinjski Kanton,
capital is still Gorazde.
Adrian Sramek, 9 July 2001
I am not sure how precise this information is. Some time ago
the canton (the Canton V, as it is know by numerical notation)
had (proposed?) name of Gorazdansko-podrinjski (or similar), but
the reference to Podrinje (region near Drina river, the border
river between Yugoslavia and B&H) was dropped after
objections (by whom?) that the canton does not reach Drina river
at all. If I am not much mistaken on the last ellections it was
still named Gorazde canton (or
Gorazdanski kanton, if you prefer).
I shall not rule out the possibility that some new changes were
made recently, but we shall need some more precise information
for that...
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2001
According to governmental web pages of the Federation of
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the present canton name is: 5. Bosnian
Podrinje (former Gorazde-Podrinje).
Jan Zrzavy, 17 July 2001
It seems that in al the documents there (including the
constitution) the full name of the canton is
"Bosansko-podrinjski kanton Gorazde" at least since
1997. To the best of my knowlage, the other cantons do not
include the name of the capital in their official name in this
way.
Could there be a Bosansko-podrinjski in another canton and this
is the way to make the disctinction ?
Marc Pasquin, 31 January 2004
No, I don't think that his is the case, but surely, this
canton is not the only one that is situated in Bosnian Podrinje
(Podrinje means region along Drina river), most of the eastern
Republic of Srpska is situated in Bosnian Podrinje, of course,
since Drina forms its eastern border. The canton nr. 3., that of
Tuzla might also have claim for the name (and was once called
"Tuzlansko-podrinjski kanton", but since changed name
to "Tuzlanski kanton" only). In a way it may also be
kind of distinction from the Canton 2 - Bosnian- Posavina Canton
(Posavski kanton) that also uses (used?) the same abberviation
BPK.
In any case it is Bosnian-Podrinje Canton Gorazde now.
Željko Heimer, 31 January 2004
The website of the Bosansko-Podrinski kanton <www.bpkgo.ba>, shows a
different coat of arms than the one Željko reported. The
flag of the kanton has two vertical stripes blue-yellow with the
coat of arms in the middle. Proportions 1:2.
You can see it as a table flag on a photo of the site (<www.bpkgo.ba/images/18_septembar/sl10.jpg>)
The website unfortunately gives us only a law about the
seal of the kanton.
Here is a reconstruction of the flag. I don't know if the
blue of the coat of arms is darker than the blue stripe of the
flag.
Pascal Vagnat, 30 January 2004
Jos Poels received the letter from the cantonal government
informing him of the date of adption of the new symbols: 15
November 2001, designed by Elvedin Drkenda. The are adopted by
the Law on coat of arms and flag of Bosnia-Podrinje Canton
Goražde passed by the assembly on 15 November 2001. The flag
is vertically divided blue and yellow bicolour with the coat of
arms in the middle. Ratio 1:2. The coat of arms is in the shield
of a medieval Bosnian shape, vertically divided into yellow with
three fivepointed vodied stars and blue with yellow fleur de lis
above five yellow wavy stripes. The wavy lines represent the
Drina river. The yellow outline fo the shield is said to
represent the Goražde distict from XIV century sic!).
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2005
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image by Željko Heimer, 9 July 2005
image by Željko Heimer, 18 March 2006
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Coat of Arms
image by Željko Heimer, 18 March 2002
A visitor of my FAME pages
sent me an image of the Coat of Arms of Bosankso- podrinjski
kanton (Canton nr. 5, initially called also
Gorazdansko-podrinjski kanton, but I think the BPK name might be
official now), and he described the flag as "similar to SDA green-white-green flag in which the
initials are replaced by the Coat of Arms".
The coat of arms is obviously based on the previous Coat of Arms
of Bosnia, the well known fleur-de-lis Coat of Arms. The golden
ornament in the white bend is, I guess, nothing more then an
ornament, though it might be based on the representation of the
historical f-d-l arms in some of the famous armorials. The three
flowers in the lower part are, I guess, again from some
historical source, the lilies made more naturally. The helmet
issuing from the band might be from the same period (12th
century?). The helm as well as the colouring of the upper part
are extremly unheraldical, unfortunately.
Željko Heimer, 18 March 2002
Jos Poels managed to get hold of the text of the previous flag
legislation of 1997. That was amended with the current symbols in
2001. The legislation is: Zakon o grbu i zastavi
Bosanko-podrinjskog kantona Goražde, 25. april 1997,
Službene novine Bosansko-podrinjskog kantona Goražde,
br. 7/97, August 1997 (The Law on the Coat of Arms and the Flag
of the Bosnian Podrinje Canton Goražde, 25th April 1997,
issued in the official gazette Službene novine
Bosansko-podrinjskog kantona Goražde, nr. 7/97). The copy of
it available to Jos did not (unfortunately) include any images,
while the descriptions in the text are quite vague - not
surprising comparing how unheraldical the Coat of Arms was.
However, the legislations solves the mistery how the flag looked
like and we may now correct the info we have based on a report of
an unsigned visitor to my site. The flag was not VWV but simply
bicolour of VW with the Coat of Arms in it. The ratio was
prescribed to 3:5.
Željko Heimer, 18 March 2006
