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Pozega-Slavonia County (Croatia)

Požesko-slavonska županija

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I have bought a book: Csáki, Imre: A magyar kira'lysa'g va'rmegyéinek ci'merei a XVIII-XIX. században, Corvina, Budapest, 1995 , in which are shown (one big coat of arms in each page!) all the coats of arms of the counties of the Hungarian part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the XVIII. and XIX. centuries.
The coat of arms of the Hungarian "Pozsega vármegye" [Pozega county] was: a cartouche shield, divided per fess: 1- azure two lions or affrontés fighting each other with swords, the dexter one holding an argent and or sword with a royal crown or at the top, the sinister one holding a sword or with a ribbon gules along the sword and a royal crown or at the top; 2- tierced per fess [divided in three per fess]: a- divided per fess, A-azure; B- sable a wavy fess argent; b- vert a running marten natural; c- divided per fess, A-sable a wawy fess argent; B- azure. The shield is surmounted by a royal crown or. The coat of arms was adopted first in 1748.
If it seems rather complicated, it isn't when one sees the picture. The upper part of the shield shows on blue two lions fighting with swords, then the lower part whows fives stripes (1:1:2:1:1), alternatively, blue, black with a wavy line in white, green with a marten, black with a wavy line in white and blue.
Pascal Vagnat, 28 June 1998

Rather like what I saw - even if I was not sure then, with this description ,now I can tell it is the same blazon.
Željko Heimer, 2 July 1998

Several days ago I had chance to get a quick glance of the flag of Pozega-Slavonia . You must bear in mind that the image above is a reconstruction from that quick glance, and is therefore only a draft.

The flag of the County of Pozega-Slavonia (Poz<es<ko-slavonska z<upanija) yellow with green base and chief (a la Spain), with the coat of arms in the middle.
The coat of arms is the shield from the coat of arms of the former Pozega County granted in 1745. The lower part is obviously a variation of the coat of arms of Slavonia, while I do not know what the upper part is referencing to.
Željko Heimer , 29 March 1999

The information about this County smybols are rather wague and insufuicient. Apart from reports by Janko Ehrlich, and sseveral of my spottings of that flag on TV, I have hardly a clue to start from. However, I found one image that proves that there is a flag to report, indeed. See at <www.pozega.hr> image of the magistrate of Pozega, hoisting the flags of Croatia, the County and the City (properly ordered!).
Željko Heimer, 3 November 2000

The symbols were adopted on 5 July 1994 by a decision: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Županije Požeško-slavonske, 5. srpnja 1994. Službeni vjesnik Županije Požeško-slavonske, br. 5/94, 7. srpnja 1994. This was slightly changed (but not designwise) by: Odluka izmjenama i dopunama Odluke o grbu i zastavi Županije Požeško- slavonske, 29. veljace 1996. Požeško-slavonski službeni glasnik, br. 5/94, 7. srpnja 1994.
The materials used for the preparation of the decision was kindly sent to me from the County archives by Mrs. Branka Starcevic-Tesari, the Secretary of the County Administartion on 20 October 2005.
The modern design of the coat of arms based on the historical muster was performed by Frane Paro, an academic painter and a graphic artist from Zagreb and a profesor at the Zagreb Acabemy of Fine Arts. The coat of arms is blazoned: Divided per fess, in chief Azure two Lions rampant reguardant Or, the Dexter holding a Sword Argent topped with a Crown Or and the Sinister holding a Sceptre Or topped with a Crown Or from which is folding around the Sceptre a Shroud Gules, and in base Vert, between two barrulets wavy Argent a Marten passant proper. The coat of arms of Pozega and Slavonia County is the same as the shield of the coat of arms of the former Pozega County, granted on 26 February 1748 by Empress Maria Theresia. The coat of arms is set in the middle of a flag of green-yellow- green, with the central stripe being double the width of each other two.
Željko Heimer, 29 October 2005

I would blazon: "a Marten courant proper", since the animal seems to be running.
Lewis A. Nowitz, 29 October 2005

You are probably right and indeed in Croatian blazon we use words to describe the position of the marten as "running" or "in the run". However, it seems that the term "passant" has been usual in English of it.
Željko Heimer, 30 October 2005

Passant" is fine. The difference is tiny; that's why I said it was a "quibble".
Lewis A. Nowitz, 31 October 2005


Coat of Arms


image by Željko Heimer, 29 October 2005


Historical Flags of the Pozega Riflemen


images from Croatian History Museum site by courtesy of Jelena Borosak Marijanovic

Flag of the Pozega riflemen - beginning of the 19th century
White silk, painting, wooden flagstaff, gilt bronze finial
126 x 182 cm, length of flagstaff 302 cm

Rectangular flag sewn of four pieces of silk, the edges decorated with alternating gold, blue, silver and brown flames. Obverse: in the centre of the flag field an Austrian Imperial double-headed eagle bears a square shield with the elements of the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Slavonia and the initials of the ruler F II (Francis II). Reverse: in the centre of the flag field a depiction of the Mother of God with the Infant Christ. Above the image the motto reads: PRO DEO REGE ET LEGE ('For God, king and law'). The flagstaff is spirally coloured in white, blue, yellow and brown, ending with a foliate filial with the carved initials: F II (Francis II). The flag was the so-called Leibfahne of the Pozega Jaeger battalion.
The flag was donated to the Museum by Teodor Kraljevic, the parish priest in Pozega in 1906. The flag was restored by Iva Cukman (textile) and Alma Orlic (painting) in 1990.

Streamer 1801
Yellow silk atlas, while silk, silver acupiction embroidery, sequins length of streamer 258 cm, width 14 cm

A simple streamer decorated with a simple silver border along the edge and an embroidered inscription along the ends of the streamer edged with stylised branches. The inscriptions on the ends read: MARIA.THERESIA / AVG / VEXILUM.HOC.ET / FASCIAM.ADNEXAM / ACV.PHRYGIA.A.SE / PICTAM. and PROVINCIAE.POSE / GANAE.MILIT.VE / NATORIBVS BENIG / NITATIS.SVAE.DO / CVMENTVM.DONAT / MDCCCI.

J. Borosak-Marijanovic, Zastave kroz stoljeca, Zagreb, 1996, catalogue number 53, page 121.

From Croatian History Museum site by courtesy of Jelena Borosak Marijanovic
Bigger images at <agor.srce.hr/m012900v.jpg> and <m012901v.jpg>.