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The coat of arms of Virovitica is the traditional coat of arms
of the city Gules, on a Mount Vert a Lion rampant Or, holding in
dexter a Sabre Argent hilted Or above his head. The flag is white
with the coat of arms in the middle. Adopted: around 1995 (?).
Source: City of Virovitica official web pages <www.ring.net/virovitica>
(07. 05. 2000).
Željko Heimer
Virovitica is a city with about 23,000 inhabitantsn (16,000 in
the urban area itself) in northwestern part of Slavonia. Much
important histoprically, it has lost much of its influence in
modern time, but even though the counyt formed in nothern
Slavonia after the liberation of from Turks was named after it,
even if the capital was already set to Osijek.
Željko Heimer, 8 September 2003
The City also has nice updated web pages, where, among other
things provide vectorized
images of the city coat of arms.
The web site also includes the official gazette, where a decision
on the use of the arms was granted to the local fire-fighters:
Odluka o odobrenju uporabe grba Grada Virovitice DVD Korija, 5.
veljace 2008, Službeni vjesnik Grada Virovitice, br. 2/08,
5. veljace 2008.
The mentioned decision refers to the decision adopting the coat
of arms and the flag: Odluka o grbu i zastavi Grada Virovitice,
Službeni vjesnik Grada Virovitice, br. 9/04.
The Statutes of
the city of 2006 includes the descrption of the coat of arms
and the flag in its article 4.
However, there is one thing that should be mentioned about the
coat of arms (and then also of the flag) of Virovitica - the coat
of arms is, apparently, regularly shown with the golden sabre
while the Statutes (and presumably also the 2004 decision)
clearly states that the sabre that the lion holds should be
silver. The golden sabre is also shown in the mentioned
vectorized image.
I believe that this is only an error without any meaning and that
the sabre should indeed be silver, only nobody noticed the error
so it propagated for a long time (a decade or so).
Željko Heimer, 15 December 2008
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image by Željko Heimer, 15 December 2008