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Okucani (Slavonski Brod-Posavina, Croatia)

Općina Okučani

Last modified: 2009-08-15 by dov gutterman
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image by Željko Heimer, 11 April 2009



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Overview

Okučani is a community in the Brod-Posavina County, some 60 km west of Slavonski Brod, an important crossroads, 6,200 inhabitants, 2,500 in the town of the same name.
The coat of arms drawing I received from Tihomir Podkornjak, Cernik, 06.05.2004. The coat of arms is Azure a thunderbolt proper. This is the heraldic charge that represents lightning inherited from antique symbols of Jupiter. It is shaped as a golden cigar with wings, thunder-arrows radiating from it and fire from one end.
The thunderbolt probably refers to the Operation Flash (Bljesak), the operation performed by the Croatian Defence Forces in that liberating the region in just few days in May 1995. Okučani and surrounding region was known as Western Slavonia as a part of the separatist Serb Republic of Krayina.
I have no info yet on the flag and the ceremonial flag, though it should be quite obvious that the design was from the workshops of the Heraldik-art d.o.o of Rijeka, and then we should expect both.
Željko Heimer, 12 July 2004

Coat of Arms and flag were designed by Heraldic Art d.o.o from Rijeka and approved by the Ministry of Administration/Central State Office for Administration before 2006.
Željko Heimer, 23 May 2008

The web site of a Ukrainian minority cultural association from Lipovljani shows a gallery of photos from their performance in Okucani, including a photo showing the Okucani flag: The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.
Željko Heimer
, 11 April 2009


Coat of Arms


image by Željko Heimer,12 July 2004