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Kamanje (Karlovac, Croatia)

Općina Kamanje

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image by Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005

Overview
Coat of Arms

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Collection of Croatian local flags at the FAME

Overview

The community of Kamanje is in the Karlovac County some 30 km NW of Karlovac where the river Kupa at its north edge makes its last kilometers where it forms the border towards Slovenia and where it turns inland into Croatia. Kamanje is among the youngest communities in Croatia formed by a minor administrative reform in 2003 seceeding from the community of Žakanje.
The Coat of Arms Kamanje is: or a conjoined double bendlet wavy azure in the cheif a neolitic vase between a mulet and a crescent increscent and in the base seven lozenges one between sinsiter three in bend dexter three in bend sinistre all also azure.
The neoloitic vase is found in a cave in Kamanje, the wavy bends symbolize the river Kupa while the star and crescent are traditional part of the coats of arms in the region. The severn lozenges stand for the seven setlements of the community.
The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the middle. Ratio 1:2.
Sources: <www.kamanje.hr>. Tomislav Šipek, personal observation in Kamanje, September 2005.
Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005

It may be of interest to see the actual Neolithic vase depicted on the coat of arms at <www.kamanje.hr>. According to the page, the vase was found in the cave named Vrlovci in Kamanje, dated 2500 BCE, preserved from the so called Lasinja Neolithic culture, about 9 cm in height.
The new 2009 Statutes (Statut Opcine Kamanje, 14.07.2009, Glasnik opcine Kamanje 03/2009) include the description of the coat of arms and the flag in the same manner as it was described in the 2004 decision on their adoption. The previous 2005 Statutes might have included them as well (Glasnik Opcine Kamanje, 13/2005).
The 2004 decision (Odluka o zastavi i grbu opcine Kamanje, 27.08.2004. Glasnik opcine Kamanje 03/2004), I received the text kindly from the mayor of the community, Mr. Damir Mateljan in 2005, who also informed me that such design was not well received by the central authorities and was not approved (anyway, now it is repeated in the Statutes). He names the author of the design Alfred Krupa, an academic painter from Karlovac.
Željko Heimer, 24 December 2009

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 18 September 2005