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Page created: 14th August 2000 Last updated: 29th August 2004 | ![[The FAME - Flag and Arms of the Modern Era]](../fame_ban.gif){kind=small}
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The FAME is site devoted to systematic and scientific study of flags and coats of arms. Such symbols often bear strong political and other messages. Inclusion of those symbols here does not mean that the author support or approve the ideas they may stand for. |
Capital: Orasje
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The coat of arms contains Croatian chequy field for the Croat majority of the Canton. It also contains a slanted bar with two fleurs-de-lis for the Bosniak people, and for the connection with the medieval Bosnia. In base is represented river Sava, the main resource of the area and the namesake of the Canton (Posavina means region around Sava river). The flag is red over white over green tricolour with unequal stripes (42+42+16). The coat of arms is set in the middle of the flag. The red is for Croats, green for Bosniaks and white for peace among them.
The canton is situated in northern Bosnian Posavina consisting of two territorial disconnected pockets around towns of Odzak and Orasje, where Croats and Bosniaks managed to fight of the Serb agression.
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As some other Croat dominated cantons of the Federation, Posavina adiopted initially the coat of arms and the flag of the Croat Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia. The flag of Herzeg-Bosnia is basically a variation of the Croatian flag. It differs only in the coat of arms, which is itself only a slight variation of the Croatian coat of arms, differing in the shape of the shield, and having a golden triple wattle ornament in the chief.