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Župa dubrovacka (for some linguistic reason the official
name is not with capital D) is a community in the Dubrovnik and
Neretva County, one of the rare examples of communities in
Croatia that does not have name the same as the place where their
seat of administration is. The main town of the community is
Srebreno, about 10 km south-east of Dubrovnik,
since 1991 administratively part of the city of Dubrovnik, but
seceeded in 1997. About 6,600 inhabitants (Srbereno, 550). The
economic base in the history was agriculture - being a very rich
region in vicinity of Dubrovnik - providing the city with
agricultural goods. Today, tourism is, of course, of the utmost
importance.
The coat of arms is: gules a woman's head couped with black hear
in a bun and an earring argent toped with a white torse on which
is set a basket or filled abundant with fruits proper. This
refers to the traditional way the peasant girls would bring their
goods into the city markets. It is also said that the girls from
this region are very pretty looking, which is not hard to
believe.
The flag is (dark) red with the coat of arms brodered yellow in
the middle.
Source: M-design, Župa Dubrovacka, <www.m-design.hr> ,
12.12.2006. Reported by Tomislav Šipek.
Željko Heimer, 16 December 2006
I received the answer from the community of Župa
dubrovacka. The decision adopting the symbols is: Odluka o grbu i
zastavi opcine Župa dubrovacka, 1.10.2002. Službeni
glasnik Opcine Župa dubrovacka.
The coat of arms is described in the decision (my translation):
gules, a woman's (Župka's) head with black head and black
bun bearing on a "spara" argent a basked or filled with
fruits. Župka is name for an inhabitant of Župa.
"Spara" is, obviously, the local name for the torse.
The flag is described as being dark red with the coat of arms in
the middle bordered yellow. Ratio 1:2.
There is no mention of ceremonial flag, so possibly there is
none, even though it seems that the design was made by
Heraldik-art, Rijeka and one would expect a ceremonial flag...
Željko Heimer, 1 February 2007
The site of the community now includes also the image of the ceremonial flag, which I suspected to exist. The
ceremonial flag is a dark red gonfalon with three triangularly
ending tails, the middle one being longer, containing golden
ornaments of vine, olive and fig branches. In the middle is the
coat of arms of the community and the name inscribed in three
arches.
Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007
The symbols were designed by the Heraldic
Art d.o.o. from Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2007
On the community
site, there is a photo showing the table
flag which is somewhat different. The table flag is vertical
rectangular flag with the coat of arms in the middle and green
olive and branches with yellow bunches of grapes below it and the
yellow name of the community in two rows in the base. The same
photo shows the table flag of Stari
Mikanovci in the Vukovar-Srijem County.
Željko Heimer, 27 July 2008
image by Željko Heimer, 14 October 2007
image by Željko Heimer, 27 July 2008
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image by Željko Heimer, 1 February 2007