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The community of Strahoninec was formed in 1997 secedeing from
the city of Cakovec. It is situated due south of Cakovec and it
is its suburb. Strahoninec has about 2,600 inhabitants and
probably few hunderds more in surrounding villages.
The article in the local newspapers at <www.mnovine.hr> describes who
the flag and the coat of arms are adopted on the previous day
(11.11.2003): "Dobili grb, zastavu i dva nova
vjecnika", Medimurske novine, br. 427, 12.11.2003.
The coat of arms of Strahoninec is gules a whip
embowed-counterembowed or and in base a stump eradicated also or.
The whip alludes to the name of the community having the root in
the word meaning 'fear' ('strah'), and the whip's shape forms the
shape of the initial letter S.
The flag is light blue with the yellow bordered coat of arms in
the middle. Quite probably there might be a ceremonial flag, too.
Željko Heimer, 9 Febuary 2004
The ceremonial flag of the Municipality of Strahoninec in
Medjimurska county, Croatia, is now available in its website at
<www.strahoninec.hr>.
Valentin Poposki, 20 August 2006
Strahoninec adopted its symbols in 2003 according to the news
article from another newspapers from Medimurje. The article was
quite definitive in its wording and there was no doubt at the
time that the images shown together with it as well as the
description in the text might be inccorect or doubtfull. However,
just a few days ago (by the link Valentin provided, but also from
a description in the official gazette I located almost in the
same time), it is revealed that the finally adopted version the
colours are inverted - the blue flag with red coat of arms that
was reportedly aodpted in November 2003 is wrong! It seems that
the flag that was finally adopted is red with the light blue coat
of arms with the same elements as reported but with slightly
different artistic design (or is it only that the previous
drawings from which we worked were of bad quality so details were
not visible?). Anyway, I hope to get some feedback from
Strahoninec...
In the mean time, a short note at the very end of the article at
<www.medjimurje.com>:
"Predstavljen pristorni plan", Medimurje,
županijske novine, br. 2559, 11.05.2004. in the frame titled
"21. svibnja - Dan Strahoninca", explains how on 21 May
2005 the day of the community shall be celebrated, among other
activities the promotion of the community flag shall be done.
Željko Heimer, 20 and 26 August 2006
Coat of Arms and flag were designed by Heraldic Art d.o.o from
Rijeka and approved by the Ministry of Administration/Central
State Office for Administration before 2006.
Željko Heimer, 23 May 2008
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image by Željko Heimer, 9 Febuary 2004