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Brtonigla is a community in the Istria County, 70 km northwest
of Pula, inlands between Umag and Novigrad,
with 1,500 inhabtants (about 800 in the town of the same name).
Alost 40% of inhabitants are Italians, so both Croatian and
Italian are official languages. In the Roman period there was a
town named Ortus Niger or Hortus Niger (=black garden).
The coat of arms used traditionally for Brtonigla showes a
landscape with a square field with a crossroads all in a cartouch
type shield. This cants the Latin name of the place. This coat of
arms is set in a white and blue swallow-tailed flag with a white
ribbon above it inscribed with the name of the community in the
Croatian and Italian languages and with an olive branch. These
symbols are, probably, used unofficially without the approval
from the central authorities.
Source: a photo of the flag provided by a FAME
visitor, 24.07.2006.
Željko Heimer, 29 July 2006
The community
web site includes a photo of the actual ceremonial flag, with
golden fringe and golden loops for attachment to the crossbar.
The Statutes
of the community includes the 2007 redaction of the 2006
statutes, although we may guess that the same determinations on
the coat of arms and the flag were included in previous statutes,
at least since 2001: Statut Opcine Brtonigla (procišceni
tekst), 02.04.2007, Službene novine Opcine Brtonigla, br.
?/2007.
The article 5 describes: "The coat of arms of Brtonigla is
the historical coat of arms in shield shape with blue sea at the
top, in the middle is a green vineyard field surrounded with 16
olive trees and two cypress trees, the field is divided into four
quarters by a red cross. The edges of the field are yellow and
the background is white."
The flag is also described - "half white and half blue with
the coat of arms in the middle and with an olive branch in its
top right corner. Above the coat of arms "on a modified
background" (whatever that is supposed to mean) is inscribed
"Opcina Brtonigla - Comune di Verteneglio". The end of
the flag is in swallow tail shape. The flag is bordered with
golden yellow. Ratio of the width to length is 1:2."
Željko Heimer, 3 September 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 29 July 2006
