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image by Eugene Ipavec, 20 June 2006
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The canton was formed on 16 August 1944.
The flag and arms are presented on the municipal
website: "The flag is made of a horizontal rectangle
divided in two parts by a line descending from the upper left
corner to the lower right corner, green in the upper part and
yellow in the lower part. The symbolics of the colours is the
following: Green: The greenness of the forest and the abundant
vegetation. It represents the economic hope for those who live
from agriculture and cattle-breeding. The exuberancy of its
mountains and fields including big timer trees, grasslands and
arable crops, and the hope of the inhabitants [..] Yellow
represents life, fecundity and agricultural resources, cattle-
breeding, mining, etc."
Ivan Sache, 25 October 2008
image from municipal
website