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It seems that the county of Split and Dalmatia (Splitsko-Dalmatinska
zupanija - most of counties have such a double names, naming
a city and a wider region) adopted a yellow-blue flag, devided
vertically in proportions 1:2 aproximately, with a blue shield in
yellow field bearing a yellow crown (of king Zvonimir). I've been
reading in newspapers that this flag was proposed, and I have
seen it in use lately, but I don't know if it was addopted and
confirmed from Zagreb.
Željko Heimer, 18 March 1996
The coat of arms is Azure a Crown of Zvonimir Or. The
crown of Zvonimir is based on the representation of the crown on
the head of Croatian king found on the old Croatian engraving on
a baptistery in early romanic style of XI century. The baptistery
is found in Split, and it is believed that the figure represent
the king Zvonimir-Dmitar (?-1089, ruled from 1075), who liberated
Dalmatia from Venetians, and organized capital and seat of
Croatian parliament in Knin. The same crown design is used on the
coat of arms of Sibenik and Knin County.
The flag is blue with yellow hoist in the middle of which the
coat of arms is set.
The County of Split and Dalmatia is situated in the middle
Dalmatia. Even if it is the only county that have the name of
Dalmatia in it, since it does not encompass the whole historical
kingdom, there is no sence in using the historical Dalmatian coat
of arms of three golden leopard's heads in blue shied. However,
the historical connection is retained by using of the same
colours in the modern county symbols.
Source: Vjesnik, Zagreb, 29. svibnja 1998. str 21.
Željko Heimer
The flag was adopted in 1995, more pecisely on 12 December
1995 by the decision: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Županije
splitsko-dalmatinske, 12.12.1995. "Službeni
glasnik" br. 9/95.
This is also refered in a historical overview of the County at
Povijesni pregled ustroja Županije splitsko-dalmatinske,
Prvih 25 sjednica, Iz predbroja "Kronike Županije
splitsko-dalmatinske" (Marijana Šundov) at <www.dalmacija.hr>.
There is also a 2002 county decision alowing the use of the Coat
of Arms to Zdenko G. Alexy, from Bratislava for his herladic
encyclopedia at <www.dalmacija.hr>.
Željko Heimer, 20 March 2005
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image by Željko Heimer
The following blasons come from Siebmacher's volume on Dalmatia.
Francois Velde, 30 June 1995
I received a question from a visitor of my web site regarding
the flag and Coat of Arms of Dalmatia (azure three crowned
leopard's heads or). Among other things, he claims that there is
the original of the Coat of Arms and the flag from 13th century
preserved in Belgium in the National Museum in Bruxelles, but of
course, he provides no clue where he got this info from. Could
that be checked?
I suspect that this is a bit deformed information regarding the
first known image of the Dalmatian Coat of Arms that is as far as
I am aware from literature in the Gerle Armorial, which is indeed
in Belgium, but originates from the late 14th century. If I am
not much mistaken, the Gerle book showes the Coat of Arms
together with flags, so it may really be the origin. Of course,
this can't be the original - only the first known representation,
the original "grant of arms" being lost in he mists of
time if ever there was one indeed.
Željko Heimer, 10 December 2003
I have no much knowlage on the procedure of the Coat of Arms
grants in Austria-Hungary for Dalmatia. It seems that quite a few
cities in Dalmatia were granted Coats of Arms in 1890's. Does
anyone know how this was done? Were there any letter patents
issued in Vienna? Where this was documented? (Unlike the
"continental" Croatia where Coat of Arms grants were
formally approved by the parliament, after they being granted by
the Emperor (sic!) - I am not sure that there was anything of
that sort in Dalmatia, and I have certainly never saw any
Austrian-Hungarian armorial patent for Dalmatian cities.
H. G. Stroehl in his "Staedte-Wappen v. Oe-U", 1904,
mentions (and he should know, as he was heraldic authority at the
period) that the Coat of Arms were granted to Imotski (6 July 1890, basically the same
as the current), Dubrovnik/Ragusa (25
August 1863 - showing St. Blasius), Split
(6 May 1887, blue with Diocletian's palace). I would really like
to learn a bit about these grants of arms, as I believe they are
readily skipped over in Croatian histories.
Stroehl mentions several flags, most notably that of Split - being red-white-blue tricolour
with the Coat of Arms in the middle. Then the same pattern for
the flag is described for Bol,
tricolour with the community Coat of Arms, basically of the same
design as currently used, then for Herceg-Novi
(Coat of Arms granted 28 Feb 1890; today in Montenegro), again
red-white-blue tricolour with Coat of Arms (argent a masoned
tower topped with a flag gules a cross of the first between two
cypresses all issuant from on a base vert). Starigrad on Hvar a banner, possibly a
gonfanon, is mentioned, blue with the city red-white-blue (a
complex one quartered).
Željko Heimer, 20 August 2009
See also: Croatia - Historical Flags (1848-1918)