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The web site of the community at <www.dugirat.com> has a small
image of the Coat of Arms, that is more or less adequate for the
reasonable drawing.
Dugi Rat is a community with 6,500 inhabitants on coastlien
between Split and Omis in the
Split-Dalmatia County.
The design seems "simple" eoung that we could assume
that the flag would have been adopted at once - it looks like
something the Ministry would approve, but it is probably too
early to tell.
Željko Heimer, 26 April 2004
Tomislav Šipek located an image of the flag of Dugi Rat
at their website.
The flag is blue with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the
middle.
Željko Heimer, 15 October 2005
On the official
community web site, the coat of arms and flag are shown - the
introduction to the page explains that the Ministry of
Administration granted the permition to Dugi Rat to use the coat
of arms and the flag and the there is provided the blazon of the
coat of arms and the flag.
It may be noted that the drawings slightly differ from the one I
posted (which is not odd - I was working from a very small source
drawing myself) - but odd is that these drawinsg are in some
details different from the coat of arms used in the headers of
the official
gazettes (the main difference is the shape of the sail at
point where it is touching the mast below - the gazette design
shows "knots" or "rings" around the mast
while the web version is much simpler. The web version also have
the mast forming a single element with the shield golden outline.
This last issue makes me suspect that the web version is not
official drawing, but prepared by someone else
"unofficially" - although it may well be that this one
is in use as well (it would not be heraldically improper). In any
case, I asked the community by e-mail, we shall see if they
respond.
An other issue are the gazettes. The 1996
gazette includes the decision on the coat of arms and flag:
Odluka o grbu i zastavi opcine Dugi Rat, 21. 11. 1996,
"Službeni glasnik", službeno glasilo opcine
Dugi Rat, br. 3/1996, 23. 12. 1996, str. 41-43.
Even though the mentioned gazete already includes the current
coat of arms in its header (which means probably nothing else but
that the file was prepared some time after the adoption of the
current coat of arms), the decision describes something entirely
different. The coat of arms is described as shield-shaped,
divided into two parts by two golden wavy lines, symbolizing the
sea. The chief is white and includes St. George on a horse,
representing the Poljica Republic, and in the base of blue is a
"bracera", symbolizing the lower Poljica. The flag is
white, rectangular, with the coat of arms of Dugi Rat in its top
left corner.
Poljica mentioned in the description above is the region to the
south and east of Split, and north of Omiš, along the coast
and inlands encompassing the Mosor mountain. Since 13th century
the region had a high degree of self-government, as the Republic
of Poljica until its downfall with Napoleons conquests. Unlike
the better known Republic of Dubrovnik (Ragusa) further south,
that was aristocratic in character, the Poljica was a peasant's
republic. According to some theories, the Tomas More's
"Utopia" was partially based on the society in Poljica
(although this may be a bit far fetched, there are certain
similarities between his ideas and determination of the Statutes
of 1440.) In Western sources the region is better known under the
Italian spelling of the name Poglizza.
A bracera (bratzera) is a traditional type of a sail boat used in
Eatsern Adriatic, with a single mast with a Latin sail on a
crossbar. It may also be propelled by rowing.
It seems clear that this design could not pass the criteria of
the central authorities and it was probably soon replaced with
the current design. However, in the official gazettes available
on-line there is no any other decision issues to superseed the
1996 decision. However, the 2001 Statutes already include the new
design: Statut Opcine Dugi Rat, 12.10.2001. "Službeni glasnik",
službeno glasilo opcine Dugi Rat, br. 2/2001, 22. 10. 2001,
str. 7-23. The Statutes describe the coat of arms and the flag as
we know it with one difference - the coat of arms in the flag is
said to be bordered with green border. I am not
sure if this is simply a typo - if it is, it was not noticed and
stands the same in the amended text in gazette 4/2006.
Željko Heimer, 28 August 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 26 April 2004