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image by Željko Heimer, 2 October 2000
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Tuzla podrinje canton - Bosna i Hercegovina is an old name,
new name is : TUZLA CANTON, with new flag and Coat of Arms.
adi Miralem , 1 April 2000
In Tuzla flag and Coat of Arms, what is shown as bright yellow
should be green. I am waiting for the official construction sheet
to be sent to me, and then maybe we shall have some more
corrections. Why green? - simply, the Coat of Arms show in blue
sky, the green hillside over a layer of coal and a layer of salt,
both of the minerals being mined there for a long time.
Željko Heimer , 1 May 2000
There are two cantonal laws regualting the Coat of Arms and
the flag, the first one establishing it and the second one
regulating the usage:
1. Zakon o grbu i zastavi Tuzlanskog kantona, 31. 12. 1999.
Sluzbene novine Tuzlanskog kantona (SNTK) nr. ? - (effective on
the day of issue in SNTK)
2. Zakon o upotrebi grba i zastave Tuzlanskog kantona, 31. 12.
1999. SNTK nr. ? - (effective on the day of issue in SNTK)
Both texts are quoted on <www.vladatk.kim.ba>,
and these are the texts I used for this presentation:
"Tuzla Canton ("Tuzlanski kanton" in both
official languages) is the new name for the "Canton
III" of the Dayton agreement, that was called Tuzla-Podrinje
Canton ("Tuzlansko-podrinjski kanton",
"Tuzlansko-podrinjska z<upanija" in Bosnian and
Croat respectivly) unil February 1999, when the name was changed
to the curent one, due to the two facts - first, Drina river is
not passing through it (Podrinje mbeing "near the Drina
region") and second, the Constitutional count decided that
"kanton" is official name for that kind of division in
Croat language too.
The Coat of Arms of TK is described in article 3 of the law (1)
named above as:
"The Coat of Arms of TK is in shape of a shield with yellow
border. There are four excentric circular fields located in the
Coat of Arms from top left [non heraldic description] towards
bottom being blue, green, black and white. In the blue fields
there are three yellow stars following the circular line formed
by the edge of the blue and green fields."
Article 4 imidiately define the flag:
"The flag of TK is blue equal to the blue shade used in the
Coat of Arms. In the geometric center of the flag there is the
Coat of Arms of TK with additional eight stars set on the same
circular path as the stars in the Coat of Arms, thus four stars
towards top and four towards bottom of the flag. The flag is in
rectangular shape. The ratio of the length and the width of the
flag is 1:2."
Articles 5 and 6 determine that the technical details are in
addition to this law, and are it part, and that there shall be a
separate law regarding the use of the symbols. Article 7 provides
the effect of the law with the day of issue in the official
gazette. After the law there are captions in the text on the
mentioned site from which it may be concluded that the images
with construction sheets are issued in the official gazette, but
unfortunately, the images are not included on the site.
The law (2) regardin the use of this symbols is more or less
standard and there is little to report from it. It may be noted
that in atrticle 16 it provides for the invalidation of a
previous law regarding former flag of Tuzla-Podrinje Canton:
"Zakon o utvroivanju i upotrebi grba i zastave
Tuzlansko-podrinjskog kantona, Sluzbene novine
Tuzlansko-podrinjskog kantona, nr. 4/96."
There is no reference in the laws on the possible meaning of the
symbols, but it is quite obvious. Tuzla region is especially well
known as the salt mining city and the white field is noz dbout
refering to that. Coal is another mining product of importance of
the region, the green is then the top layer of thje ground with
vegetation and blue is the sky, quite logical. They yellow stars
on blue are the reference to the national flag. The number of the
stars probably have no particlar meaning as it is the case with
the stars on the national flag, and that is further supported
with the fact that there is more stars on the flag then on the
Coat of Arms. However, the three stars on the Coat of Arms itself
might possibly refer to the three main B&H ethnic groups.
Željko Heimer , 7 May 2000
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image by Željko Heimer, 2 October 2000
All Tuzla Canton (Bosnia/Federation) municipalities now have
Coat of Arms, and most have flags of their own. The
"capital" city - Tuzla, hometown to yours truly, has
had a flag for the last four or five years. It consists of the
city's Coat of Arms in the canton - an image of which can be seen
at the city's (as yet unfinished) webpage at <www.tuzla.ba> in white,
representing salt, the city's namesake (tuz - turkish - salt),
and it's basically a bicolour with 7:2 proportions of Bosnia-flag
blue over Bosnia-flag yellow.
Muhamed Mesic, 13 November 2002
![[Tuzla-Podrinje Canton]](../images/b/ba-tp.gif)
image by Velid-aga Jerlagic and Jorge Candeias
![[Arms of Tuzla-Podrinje Canton]](../images/b/ba)tp.gif)
Coat of Arms
image by Velid-aga Jerlagic and Jorge Candeias
I have an image of the flag of Tuzla-Podrinje canton on my
pages that is in some details different. Most notably, I was
informed that the outline of coat of arms and the crown are
golden/yellow, rather than greenish as on Velid's image (but I
have once seen it for a short second on TV and it might think
that it was green). The shape of the crown on my image is
based on oral description, and when I showed it to my 'informer'
he said that it was OK. Maybe it was not. Some minor details of
the coat of arms (size of squares and crescent, shape of the
castle and "commas") are no doubt due to the artistic
redention - I have no official image of the coat of arms, so I
might presume that Velid's is more precise.
Željko Heimer, 13 April 1998
About the outline, I saw a flag of the canton a few days ago,
in Tuzla, and the color seams to me as green, but it could also
be "banana green-yellow" or something else. The crown
is produced as seen on flag. I saw it with my own eyes. All other
details are correct and accurate, again, as seen on the flag. The
flag was outside of cantonal parliament. I guess they wouldn't
wave an incorrect flag.
Velid-aga Jerlagic, 13 April 1998
I have a picture of that coat of arms, though in black and
white, that I found in Ljiljan (Bosnian newspapers are
easily available here in Germany). On my picture, the fleurs de
lis are quite complete, in the sense that the bottom of the fleur
is just touching the rest of the crown. I don't have a (green)
line between the fleurs de lis and the pearls. These pearls are
on my picture not pearls but little (white) squares forming an
horizontal line. (I see clearly squares, it is not an
impression). Then, there isn't again any (green) line between the
pearls and the shield. On the shield, the upper square is bigger
than the two others. The rest is identical, though the castle on
my picture looks like a black paper hat. So what? Maybe there is
a little difference between my black and white picture and the
colour picture, the first being used for the publications and in
the newspapers. My picture is in an official "Happy
easter" ad made by the Tuzlansko Podrinjski Kanton.
Pascal Vagnat, 13 April 1998
When paying for ads in newspapers, cantons or municipalities
rarely provide their own images for the people who do the desktop
publishing work within the newspapers. So, the newspapers are
forced to provide their own images based on oral or other
descriptions. I believe that was the case in Ljiljan. My
pictures are based on official documents.
Velid-aga Jerlagic, 13 April 1998
image by Željko Heimer, 2 October 2000
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Coat of Arms
image by Željko Heimer, 2 October 2000
Regarding the previous flag and Coat of Arms they were adopted
probably in 1996 (law is in oficial gazette number 4/96), but I
am not sure as I do not have that document. The colour of the
crown is calimed by Velid to be green, my informations are
golden, but stilll I was unable to confirm it by any official
document.
Željko Heimer, 2 October 2000
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