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The web page <www.medjimurje.coml> (defunct) mentioned
in Croatian something about the coat of arms of Medjimurje (the
law maybe). It is just a sentence. But could anyone translate it?
Pascal Vagnat, 24 December 1998
I guess that it means: "Also, a proposal for a decree
featuring modifications and complements about the Coat of Arms
and the flag of the Zupanija (county) will be
submitted/presented."
T. T. Le, 24 December 1998
Since the new flag and Coat of Arms were adopted on 25
September 1996, and the article is just several weeks before
that, I guess it gives hints about it. At that time the Coat of
Arms, adopted sometime in 1993 or so, was changed so that the red
and white field were interchanged, for a reason that I do not
know. The former flag, that was simply a vertical (at least, I
never saw horizontal version) banner of arms was chnaged to
wither and red vertically divided bicolour with (new) Coat of
Arms in the middle.
Željko Heimer, 31 December 1998
The Flag of Medjimurje county, adopted by the Assembly on 25
September 1996 (have no info on confirmation by the Ministry).
The new Coat of Arms (pictured on the flag) is different from
previously used one in position of the red and white fields.
Željko Heimer, 5 January 1999
I find it strange that these fields remain empty. I understand
the croatian connection here, but anyhow, it is very uncommon to
see partitioned shields without a charge in some partitions.
Jorge Candeias, 6 January 1999
The county of Medjimurje (Medjimurska zupanija, where dj
stands for 'd with dash', being accepted writing in Croatian if
sign for "d- dash" is not available) is northernmost
and smallest county in Croatia. Is is situated between rivers
Drava (south) and Mura (north along Hungarian border), with seat
of administration in C<akovec. The most of the area was once
land of high Croatian nobility, but during the centuries it
bacame considered as part of the Hungarian kingdom (and not under
administration of the parliament in Zagreb, under Habsburg
empire). With the declaration of independence of Croatian lands
from Austria-Hungary in 1918, it was proclaimed once again a part
of Croatia, and Serb troops helped in maintaining it so within
newly formed soth-slavic country. After that time a strong
dehungarization was performed, so until WWII there were already
small number of Hungarians living there. During WWII, it was
anexed to Hungary, but after the war returned to Yugoslavia.
Rather large Jewish community, that was leader of industrial
deveopement, was scatered or killed during the war. However,
Medjimurje remained one of the best developed and richest regions
of Croatia.
Željko Heimer, 11 July 1999
Medjimurje in Hungarian: Murako:z (was part of Zala County) The word "ko:z"
means: territory between the rivers.
Istvan Molnar, 19 September 2000
Concering a photo taken by Istvan
Molnar, I have never yet seen a horizontal version of the
county flag of Modjimurje - it seems that vertical variant as
seen of this image is used even when horizontal hoisting is
emploied. Therefore, one should consider the horizontal variant
that as quite doublius and unconfirmed (even if it matches the
description in the legislation well). On the photo the red stripe
is near the hoist, that is clear, but if you look at the top part
of the flag one could see an effect that could be gained by the
fact that the other side if the flag (that would be obverse, in
fact) is coloured differently, to have white stripe at hoist and
red one in fly - my guess is that each side of this flag was
printed separately with exatly equal design, so the image on
reverse is not mirrored. I would not like to draw conclusions
from this regarding what is the correct design, I am sure that it
depends mostly on the flagmaker. On the other hand, most of the
table flags in Croatia (and certainly those of Medjimurska
county) would be produced in similar manner, with only one design
printed on both sides.
Željko Heimer, 3 August 2001
The Medjimurje County is the smallest, in the far north of
Croatia. The official name is Medimurska županija (d with
dash and z with hatchek), from the region name Medimurje.
Although Medjimurje is an acceptable variation (unlike the other
specific Croatian letters, the digraph dj for d is acceptable).
Somewhere it is written Medzimurska and Medzimurje that is
certainly wrong and should be replaced with either d or dj.
It was established in 1992/93 (as all other modern counties), at
the time only Cakovec, the capital, had the city status, and
there were yet 17 communities.
In 1997 (together with wider administrative) reform two
communities were promoted to cities - Mursko Središce and
Prelog, and several nerw communities was formed by separation
from bigger communities: Dekanovec, Gornji Mihaljevec, Orehovica,
Sveta Marija and Šenkovec and in 2001 Pribislavec was formed
also.
Željko Heimer, 3 Febuary 2004
On the photo at <www.svetamarija.hr>
there is a horizontal version of the county flag. It is, I
believe, the first time I have seen this version in use - it
seems that the flags in Cakovec and elsewhere are always the
vertical variants design, no matter how they are hoisted - but
this confirms that the horizontal version as I have reported it
long ago based on written description is also used, and now
confirmed.
Željko Heimer, 5 October 2009
image by Željko Heimer
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image by Željko Heimer
image by Željko Heimer, 5 January 1999
Flag of Medjimurje county, in use from about 1993 until 25
September1996, probably adopted in the County Assembly, but not
confirmed by the Ministry of Administration. Image based on
several spotting on TV.
Željko Heimer, 5 January 1999
I reported flag that seems to be vertical banner of arms -
that reported flag is either a variation that was considered to
be adopted, or a decoration used before it was celar wat is to be
done, or it is simply my errorneus report of the flag described
above.
Željko Heimer, 11 July 1999
image by Željko Heimer, 11 July 1999
ck94.gif)
image by Željko Heimer
Medjimurje county is one of the first counties that used its
right to get the Coat of Arms and flag in Croatia after 1993.
Since there was no historical Coat of Arms of the county, a new
and modern Coat of Arms was adopted: per fess, 1. per pale Gules
and Argent, 2. Azure a mullet of six Or. The shield is
semicircular. It was adopted on 3 November 1994 (source 1). The
changes of the decision in 1996 (source 2) only change the
wording of the 1994 decision in more heralidical language, but
the
design stays the same.
The flag that was adopted in 1994 was variation of the banner of
arms: divided vertically, at hoist red and white quartered, at
fly blue with yellow sixpointed star. That flag was never
official, since the 1994 decision was not published in official
gazette until 1996, together with the decision that changes it.
However, it seems that it was at least in unofficial use in
certain occasions. I reported flag that seems to be vertical
banner of arms - that reported flag (1993 Flag
(?)) is either a variation that was considered to be adopted,
or a decoration used before it was celar wat is to be done, or it
is simply my errorneus report of the flag described above.
In any case, on 19 September 1996, probably after the first
refuzal of the Ministry of Adminsitration to confirm the flag,
the changes to the 1994 decision were made, chnaging the flag to:
vertically divided white and red with coat of arms in the middle.
The official ratio is 1:2. The decision is to bacame valid with
publication in the official gazette (the date I have not
determined, but it seems that it is in september or October
1996), with prescription that it is to be used from the date of
the approval from the Ministry. The aproval is dated 10 July
1996. (source 3).
According to the table flag that I received from the county, it
seems that vertical version of the county flag is not rotated
version of the flag, but rather remains vertically divdived per
pale.
Sources:
1. Odluka o grbu i zastavi Zupanije medjimurske, no. 23, 3
November 1994, Sluzbeni glasnik Zupanije Medjimurske 4/1996, pp.
204-205. (Decision on the coat of arms and the flag of the
Medjimurje County, Official gazette of the Medjimurje County).
2. Odluka o izmjenama i dopunama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Zupanije
medjimurske, no. 24, 19-SEP-1996, SGZM 4/1996, pp. 205-206.
(Decision of changes and additions to the Decision of the coat of
arms and the flag of the Medjimurje County).
3. Rjesenje Ministarstva uprave, Kl. UP/I-017-02/94-01/55 Ur. br.
515- 04-03/1-96-2, Zagreb, 10-JUL-1996.
Željko Heimer, 11 July 1999
