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Barilovic' is a community in the Karlovac County, due
south-west of Karlovac (Barilovic' is
about 15 km from the city of Karlovac), between rivers Korana and
Mrežnica that run almost parallely for some 40 km. It has
almost 3,100 inhabitants in no less then 44 villages, just over
10% being Serbs. Until 2006 the community name in the official
gazette is Barilovic'i.
The coat of arms of Barilovic is: Gules a bend argent between two
swords bendwise of the same hilted an pommed or. The swords are
included as the symbols of defence, as the community encompasses
several historically important defence sites from various wars.
The flag is most probably also adopted, but I have no info as
yet.
Source: "Likovna rješenja službenih
grbova odobrena od Ministarstva uprave a na temelju pozitivne
ocjene od Povjerenstva za odobrenje grba i zastave", poster,
4 str, Heraldic art d.o.o. Rijeka (2006).
Design: Heraldic Art d.o.o. from Rijeka The design was
approved by the Ministry of Administration/Central State Office
for Administartion some time before 2006.
Željko Heimer, 26 May 2008
Pascal Gross located some more sources: <opcina-barilovic.hr>
leads to think that the flag might be yellow. Pascal also says
"There's even a hint as to what the ceremonial flag might
look like at here.
Even better hint may be seen at the first page of the official
gazette. Moreover this official gazette includes the new
statutes of the community, also available <opcina-barilovic.hr>:
Statut Opcine Barilovic, Službeni glasnik Opcine Barilovic,
br. 2/2009, 14.07.2009, str. 8-31.
The article 5 describes the coat of arms as we know it. But, it
also provides for some explanations of its symbolic: the red
field symbolizes the fight for freedom in the history and in the
recent times, the silver bend stands for the Korana river and the
swords, turned toward the dexter - the positive heraldic side -
stand for the fight against occupators and symbols for centuries
of the freedom struggle.
The article 6 defines the flag: it is yellow, with ratio of the
width and length 1:2, with the coat of arms set in the centre of
it vertically to the length of the flag (on a side note: this is
a rare example where the Croatian municipal flag have explicitly
stated orientation of the coat of arms, even though that this
orientation is apparently considered as default and that only
exceptionally the flags are designed different from this).
Željko Heimer, 12 September 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 26 May 2008