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image by Željko Heimer, 11 April 2009
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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
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image by Željko Heimer,12 July 2004
