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Mali Lošinj is situated on the island of the same name
(Losinj) in Primorsko-goranska county, south east of Istria
peninsula. In the adminstraive reorganization of Croatia in 1993,
it was given the status of a community, but the city status was
returned in 1997.
The Coat of Arms of M. Losinj must originate
from sometime in 19th centruy, when this port take the bigger
importance then the nearby Veli Losinj ("veli" meaning
- greater, "mali" lesser, though these attributes are
no longer accurate). It is the shield showing the threemasted
sailling ship. I have not found the exact data of granting, but
it seems that such Coat of Arms in different artistical
redentions was used throughout 20th century (one such
representation can be seen in Zmajic's "Heraldika").
The modern artistic redention is adopted sometime in early 1990's
(probably when ML still had a community status, and maybe it was
readopted in 1997). It consists of a blue shield bordered with a
golden border, in the shield sailing a three-masted ship proper
(maroon) with golden sails. In many cases I have seen the
"golden" to be represented by pure orange shade, but on
Mali Losinj pages it is clearly represented in more appropriate
"golden yellow".
Until now I have not managed to find any info on a flag, but I
have no doubt that there is at least one adopted, and highly
probable also a ceremonial variant.
Željko Heimer, 9 July 2000
Decision was issued in the official gazette in 1996: Odluka o
grbu i zastavi Opcine Mali Lošinj, 23.08.1996, Službene
novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 21/96, 23.08.1996.
The Coat of Arms is described as Azure a three mested sail-ship
maroon with full sails or. (i.e there is no golden border as I
thought before!). The flag is explicitly described as light blue
with the Coat of Arms in the middle.
Soon afterwards a correction was issued: Ispravak Odluke o grbu i
zastavi Opcine Mali Lošinj, Službene novine
Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 24/96, 18.10.1996.
It adds the word "with a golden (yellow) border around
it" that are inadvartedly missed from the original text
describing the flag - i.e. the Coat of Arms in the flag is
bordered golden.
Željko Heimer, 19 August 2003
The decision: Odluka o izmjeni i dopuni Odluke o grbu i
zastavi Opcine Mali Lošinj, 15.05.2003, Službene novine
Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 13/03, 23.05.2003, makes
possible that the Coat of Arms and the flag be granted for use
for touristic propaganda and similar according to the usual
procedure and changes the word "community" to the word
"city" where appropriate (since Mali Lošinj was
"upgraded" to city status in the mean time).
Željko Heimer, 15 October 2005
The flag can be seen in a photo at travel.webshots.com
(located by Valentin Poposki). This is simply a flag that has
been so much torn and worn by wind that a noticeable part of the
fly half is missing.
The photo was taken atop of a hill in vicinity of Mali Lošinj
where the high winds are usual and probably never stopping, so
that it may indeed be that the flag on the photo was not that old
at all, as the colours of the design are still bright and clear.
It is probably difficult to maintain "unthorn" flag
flying at such windy places.
Željko Heimer, 22 February 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 19 August 2003