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![[Flag of Osijek-Baranja]](../images/h/hr-bj-se.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
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Severin is a community in the Bjelovar-Bilogora County, with
somewheat over 1,000 inhabitants (650 of them in the village of
the same name). In 1997 the Community of Severin was formed
seceding from the Community of Nova Raca.
Not to be confused with a small town of Severin na Kupi, now part
of the territory of the city of Vrbovsko
in Primorsko-Goranska County.
The County
web site shows a Coat of Arms and a ceremonial flag: However,
it is almost certainly that these symbols are not approved by the
Ministry of Administration and are thus unofficial. One may
presume that a "normal" flag of similar design is also
in the set.
The coat of arms depicts a wooden fort on a
green mound over a blue streem crossed by a wooden bridge, and
behind the fort a chequy red and yellow sun is riaising, infront
of it a white dove flies holding a blue buch of grapes in its
beak.
The flag is then presumably green with this Coat of Arms in the
middle, although a confirmation of that would be welcome.
The ceremonial flag is a yellow bordered green
gonfalon ending triangularly with yellow fringe along the bottom,
in the middle of it is the coat of arms bordered yellow, above it
inscription "Opcina" below in an arch
"Severin", both inscribed yellow in Gothic letters.
These symbols are not quite "legal". Most probably they
shall eventually be replaced by more proper ones, but that may
take some time. They have been obviously in use by the community,
weather due to ignorance of the regulations or their
strightforward circumvention.
This is typical design of a local Coat of Arms produced locally -
you may see some similar examples among previous Coats of Arms of
communities that were eventually "heraldrized" into
more proper arms (and even some current of the same questionable
status as this one).
Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
![[Flag of Osijek-Baranja]](../images/h/hr-bj-se1.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
![[Flag of Osijek-Baranja]](../images/h/hr)bj-se.gif)
image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009