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Omisalj (The Coast-Gorski Kotar, Croatia)

Općina Omišalj

image by Željko Heimer, 2 September 2003

Overview
Ceremonial Flag
Coat of Arms

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Overview

Omišalj is a communiyl around a small coastal town in northern part of Krk Island with 2700 inhabitants. The Rijeka airport on Krk, the oil and gas terminal port and a oil rafinery are garants of the community future, but tourism is not underdeveloped either. The Coat of Arms adopted around 1995 is Gules, a tower embatteled argent issuant from a base azure and in chief a mullet or. The flag is white with the coat of arms in the middle.
Source: [osg02] Oštric Goroslav: Monumenta heraldica, izbor iz heraldicke baštine primorsko-goranske županije, Pomorski i povijesni muzej Hrvatskog primorja Rijeke, 2002. Flag information Robert Grubisa, Rijeka, 06.07.2003. based on flags observed in use in Omišalj.
Željko Heimer, 20 July 2003

The decision was adopted in May 1995: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Opcine Omišalj, 04.05.1995, Službene novine Županije primorsko-goranske, br. 9/95, 8. svibnja 1995.
The flag is white with the coat of arms bordered golden in the middle.
The ceremonial flag is not prescribed, but a table flag is in use that might be representative of what the ceremonial flag might look like. The photo of the table flag was sent to me by Rober grubisa some weeks ago. It is vertically hoisted, white bordered golden, with the coat of arms on a golden cartouche and a ribbom below bearing the name of the community OPCINA OMIŠALJ and an other ribbon above written Omišalj in Glagolitic characters. As we already know the island Krk, on which Omišalj is, was the important center of the Croatian Glagolitic litteracy.
On a side note - the Glagolitic letters are nowdays not known (readable) by the general population in Croatia, even if there is a number of people that maintains the tradition. They are rarely used, in specially solemn occasions, usually for short inscriptions (epitaphs and like on monuments etc.) Their use on the ceremonial flag is indeed quite appropriate - the ceremonial flag is supposed to be the most solemn symbol of a local community.
Željko Heimer, 2 September 2003

The symbols were designed by the Heralid Art d.o.o company in Rijeka.
Željko Heimer, 4 November 2007

The 2009 Statutes repeats the 2001 prescriptions describing the coat of arms and the flag. The previous 1993 Statutes do not include their description.
- Statut Opcine Omišalj, 27.09.2001, Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 23/2001, 02.10.2001.
- Statut Opcine Omišalj, 16.07.2009, Službene novine Primorsko-goranske županije, br. 29/2009, 25.07.2009.
Željko Heimer, 8 December 2009

Ceremonial Flag

image by Željko Heimer, 2 September 2003

Coat of Arms

image by Željko Heimer, 20 July 2003