Centar (Municipality, Macedonia)

Центар

Last modified: 2010-01-30 by ivan sache
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Flag of Centar - Image by Mello Luchtenberg & António Martins, 1 October 2006

• Presentation of Centar
• Municipal flag of Centar
• Urban Community of Mito Hadzivasilev - Jasmin

See also:

• Macedonia
• Macedonia: Municipal flags
• Skopje (Macedonia)

Presentation of Centar

The municipality of Centar (45,362 inhabitants; 7.52 sq.km) is one of the ten municipalities forming the city of Skopje.

Ivan Sache, 9 August 2006

Municipal flag of Centar

The municipal flag of Centar is red with the municipal coat of arms in the middle. It was adopted in 1997.
The arms, a phoenix rising from the ashes, refers to the rebuilding of Skopje after the devastating earthquake in 1963.

Jovan Jonovski, 9 September 2001

Urban Community of Mito Hadzivasilev - Jasmin

The Urban Council of the Urban Community of Mito Hadzivasilev - Jasmin, part of the municipality of Centar, adopted the community's flag and arms on 28 May 2007. Selected through a public contest and designed by the local resident Goran Gogusev, the symbols have been in official use since 6 June 2007.
The flag is quartered red-blue by a white saltire, with, in the middle, a white disk charged with a golden 16-rays sun.

Valentin Poposki, 30 November 2009 - after information communicated by the Urban Council to the Macedonian Heraldic Society.