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Cepin is a community in the Osijek and Baranja County, 10 km
south-west of Osjiek, actually being
a suburbia of the city. With almost 13,000 inhabitants, 9,500 in
the settlement of the same name. Since 128th cnetury it was seat
of the lands of the Adamovic Cepinski family (Adamovich de
Csepin). The community is among the biggest producers of
sunflower, maize and corn, and has a large (food) oil factory.
The coat of arms of the community is shown on an independent
on-line site <www.cepinonline.com>
and Ivan Grbac, from Argentina got info from the webmaster on the
flag.
The coat of arms is: azure a sunflower or seeded vert and in base
a crescent increscent argent.
The flag is light blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in
the centre.
The sunflower symbolizes, naturally, the sunflower production and
the sunflower oil, main product of the community. The crescent
and the blue background of the coat of arms are derived from the
family arms of Adamovic family that was: azure a lion or rampant
sinister standing on a crescent argent and propping of a collum
of the same issuant from the crescent and in the chief sinister a
mullet or.
Željko Heimer, 25 August 2008
The design we have reported is, apparently, a proposed
design that was eventually slightly modified graphically
(replacing the complex green seeds of the sunflower for a
heraldically more pleasing simpler yellow sunflower version).
A recount of the adoption process is written at <www.cepinonline.com>.
In short, the community decided to adopt their symbols in
preparation for the celebrating 750th anniversary of the first
written mention of the place in documents. Therefore the
community decided on 4 December 2007 to engege into adopting the
symbols, tasking Vinko Ivic, a history and pedagogy teacher from
Osijek. They obtained the confirmation from the state archives
that there was no coat of arms/seal of Cepin in history, and
prof. Ivic worked with unnamed academic painter and art history
professor from Osijek on the graphical design. In 2008 the
Community adopted the decision on the coat of arms and the flag,
while the printing and other grpahical work was ordered from a
printing house and graphical studio in Cepin named Holeš
d.o.o. The Central State Office for Administration approved the
design on 7th April 2009.
While the overall design and especially the ceremonial gonfalon
have very much the feeling of the design of the Heraldic Art
company of Rijeka, they are not mentioned in the report, and
indeed they do not show Cepin on their web site, so apparently,
the Cepin team was simply following their methodology. A larger
drawings of the coat of arms and the flag are available also on
the abovementioned page.
The ceremonial flag is a light blue gonfalon
ending triangularly with the coat of arms bordered yellow in its
centre, topped with the name of the community in an arch and a
line above and with the two oak branches below the coat of arms,
fringed golden along the bottom.
The vectorized form of the coat of arms is available on various
collections of the clip-arts, like <www.crologos.com>
and <www.logotip.com.hr>.
Both collections include an other "logo" that might
have been used as the coat of arms and as the flag prior to 2007
(possibly from 1996?), that is basically the coat of arms of the
Adamovic Cepinski family arms (cf. the symbolic explanation
already above). See here
and here.
However, I would not jump to conclusions, before getting to know
what this logo was actually used for.
Željko Heimer, 7 November 2009
image by Željko Heimer, 7 November 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 7 November 2009
Flag
image by Željko Heimer, 25 August 2008
Coat of Arms
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image by Željko Heimer, 25 August 2008