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Jasenice is a community in the Zadar County, about 40 km
northeast of Zadar, inlands towards
the Velebit mountains from the Novigrad sea, where the new
highway passes by the Stv. Rok tunel under the Mali Alan mountain
top. Just over 1,300 inhabtants, 1,200 of them in the place of
the same name. The place was much destroyed in the bombing and
rocketing from the Velebit possitions held by rebel Serbs in the
1990's war.
Checking the latest official gazettes of the Zadar County at <www.zadarska-zupanija.hr>,
I found some news in the recently adopted statutes of several
municipalities:
Jasenice: Statut Opcine Jasenice, 25.01.2006, Službeni
glasnik Zadarske županije, br. 3/06, 01.02.2006.
The newly adopted statutes include the desription of the Coat of
Arms and the flag that must have been adopted a few years prior
to it, I estimate around 2002. The coat of arms of Jasenice is:
azure Vila Velebita holding in her right hand a degenia flower.
Vila Velebita (the Fay of Velebit) is a mythical patron of
Velebit mountain range and in this coat of arms she is holding a
Velebit endemic flower (degenia velebitica) also found
in the coat of arms of the Lika and Senj
County.
The flag is blue with the golden bordered coat of arms in the
middle and golden inscription of the community name above it.
Željko Heimer, 18 August 2006
The site of the local e-journal includes an article
on the electional campaign in Zadar region: The two video clips
there include some interesting flags - the first, in about 5th
second of the clip, shows the flag of Starigrad, and the second
one, at about 13th second of the clip, includes a full close-up
of the flag of Jasenice. This same flag of Jasenice may be seen,
but never so clearly, on photos here,
here
and here.
This is obviously a ceremonial flag, even
though, as we shall see the official documents describe it simply
as "the flag", without mentioning the
"normal" flag at all. The community web site includes a
page
where the description of the Coat of Arms and the flag is quoted
from the decision adopting them on 9 June 2000: Odluka o grbu i
zastavi Opcine Jasenice, 9. lipnja 2000, Službeni glasnik
Zadarske županije
The description of the Coat of Arms and the flag there is word
for word the same as that in the 2006 Statutes that quoted above
(the Statutes were amended presumably, to include this decision,
eventually).
As I mentioned, the flag descirbed mentions the inscription of
the community name above the Coat of Arms, but
"forgets" to tell us that it describes a vertical flag,
with the Coat of Arms offset toward bottom, surrounded with four degenia
flower ornaments and four square tails, all edged with a thing
yellow border.
The "normal" official flag is not mentioned and so far
it may not even have been produced, although one must assume that
indeed such design was approved by the Ministry of Administration
(if the Coat of Arms and the flag were approved at all?).
Judging from the flag design, it seems that this Coat of Arms was
not designed by the Heraldic Art company from Rijeka, even though
the Coat of Arms does kind of seem to may have been theirs,
apparently, it is not...
Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
The new
statutes (Statut Opcine Jasenice, 22.07.2009, Službeni
glasnik Zadarske županije, br. 16/2009, 19.08.2009) repeats
the determinations of the 2006 statutes without any change in
wording.
Željko Heimer, 8 November 2009
image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
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image by Željko Heimer, 15 August 2009
