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image by Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009
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Cakovec is the capital city of Medjimurje county. The coat of
arms is "Azure issuant from base a Massoned Wall embatteled
and with a Tower Argent between two Mullets Or". The coat of
arms is canting, as the most probable origin of the name Chaktornya
is Csaky's Tower, after the count Dimitry Csaky, high magistrate
and palatine on the court of king Bela IV (14th century). The
flag is blue with the coat of arms outlined in white set in the
middle.
Željko Heimer, 12 August 1996
The coat of arms of Cakovec is actually the family arms of
Ernusth de Csáktornya, lords of Cakovec from 15th century. In
16th century the family, its estates and also the coat of arms
was inherited by the Zrinski family, who marshalled the coat of
arms in their own.
Source: Bojnicic "Der Adel von Kroatien
und Slavonien", reprint 1996.
Željko Heimer, 5 October 2008
The web site of the city includes a new
decision on the coat of arms: Odluka o grbu Grada Cakovca,
09.07.2009, Službeni glasnik Grada Cakovca, br. 9/2009,
10.07.2009.
This decision supersedes the decision of 1993: Odluka o grbu
Grada Cakovca, Službeni glasnik Medimurske županije,
broj 3/93 and Službeni glasnik Grada Cakovca, broj 3/96.
However, neither of the two official gazettes are on line for
these old issues.
Newvertheless, I believe that nothing substantial was changed in
the 2009 decision. It includes drawing of the coat of arms: (but
not the flag - it mentions only that the identical coat of arms:
is used on the flag), but this same drawing is available in
vectorized format in previous issues of the gazette (the 2009
gazette uses a crude and incorrect coat of arms:, at least
following this decision), e.g. here.
The same issue of the official gazette includes the new Statutes,
that include the description of both coat of arms and the flag,
where the flag is simply described as blue with the coat of arms
in the middle. It does not specify the border around the coat of
arms, but until now a white border was always used and is
probably so today as well.
For the time being, I would leave my previous drawings as the 1993-2009 coat of arms and flag, although they
may just have been the same as the current ones.
Ströhl in his 1904 book shows almost to the line identical
drawing. Laszowski (Grbovi Jugoslavije, 1936) shows is slightly
different, adding red roofs above the embattlelemnts on each side
of the tower. He also mentions that the coat of arms is based on
the 1596 seal.
Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 30 August 2009
Flag
![[Cakovec]](../images/h/hr-cakov93.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Vertical Flag
image by Željko Heimer
Coat of Arms
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image by Željko Heimer
image by Antonio Martins, 28 Febuary 2001
This flag of Csáktornya (now Cakovec Town,
Medzimurje Co., Croatia) is from Dr. Széll Sándor:
Városaink neve, címere és lobogója (1941) as
"Csáktornya, Zala Co. (H)". The flag is blue and white
vertical diband.
István Molnár, 20 October 2000 and Antonio Martins,
28 Febuary 2001
In April 1941 Hungary occupied and in December annexed
Cakovec. In April 1945 it lost it. The Treaty of Paris (1947)
reallocated it to Yugoslavia.
István Molnár, 28 Febuary 2001