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Page created: 13th October 2000 Last updated: 14th March 2015
The FAME is a site devoted to the 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 supports or approves of the ideas they may stand for.	This site is harvested for the NSK digital archives.

Central Bosnia Canton - Communities

Srednjobosanski kanton - općine

• Bugojno
• Busovača
• Dobretići
• Donji Vakuf
• Fojnica
• Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje
• Jajce
  • Jajce, 198x – 199x
• Kiseljak
  • Kiseljak, 2009 – 2011
  • Kiseljak, 199x – 2009
• Kreševo
• Novi Travnik
• Travnik
  • Travnik, ca. 1995
  • Travnik, ca. 1985
• Vitez
  • Vitez, ca. 1995

• Central Bosnia Canton
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bugojno

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The coat of arms of Bugojno is argent a bridge maroon above three mullets of five or between flanks of fir tree vart and in base fillets azure, in the chief gules inscription Bugojno sable. The bridge symbolizes the links between peoples, above the river of Vrbas, the three stars from the European flag are for the three ethnical communities. The flag is red, wite and green tricolour in falling diagonal with the coat of arms in its centre.

Busovača

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The emblem of Busovača is yellow in a shield shape depicting a cog wheel, a spade and a trefoil, topped with the name of the municipality and the date of the first mention of the place in a document on 16 August 1371. The flag is white with the emblem in its centre.

Dobretići

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Dobretići is per fess the chief per pale, cequy guels and argent, azure a lion rampant holding a cross or, and azure a river winding among green snowcaped mountains. The shield is topped with the golden wattle from the Herzeg-Bosnia arms, encircled with green laurel wreath with a golden ribbon inscribed with the community name and the year 1998. The coat of arms was adopted following a public cometition held in 2012. The lion with the cross is from the arms of the Dobretić noble family.

Donji Vakuf

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The coat of arms of Donji Vakuf is green with yellow outlines of the clock tower, the bridge, wavy lines, a fleur-de-lis, city walls, a fether, fir trees and a wheel and the letters DV. Above the shield is a green ribbon inscribed with the community name. The flag is not adopted, but a white vertical flag with the coat of arms is recorded in use.

Fojnica

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The emblem of Fojnica shows symbolically a yellow fountain between evergreen wooded mountains, with a wavy line below and year 1365. The flag is simply white with the coat of arms in its centre. Vertical flags with the coat of arms topped with the community name inscribed are recorded in use.
In Fojnica Franciscan monastery was preserved a 15th century armorial that is one of the most important sources for the medieval heraldry and genealogy of the South-Eastern Europe.

Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje

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The coat of arms of Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje is yellow bordered white shield with four blue wavy lines over a black base, a red and a green triangle issuing from them forming a yellow vertex in the centre, and in the chief inscribed black municipality name. The flag is red-white-green vertically divided tricolour with the coat of arms in its centre.

Jajce

Jajce currently has no official coat of arms nor flag. A competition for the new symbols was apparently made around 2005, but no design was adopted. Occasionally, when necessary, Jajce uses its pre-1990's coat of arms even unto today.

Jajce, 198x – 199x

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The previous coat of arms of Jajce, still occasionally used in various colour combinations, depicts the landscape of the city with the old fort above the watterfalls is a shield shape. Also the flag vertical white with that coat of arms golden on white is nevertheless still in use. In table flag form it has somewhat larger arms in the centre.

Kiseljak

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The Constitutional Court of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina abolished the articles of the 2009 Statutes of Kiseljak determining the symbols. The municiplaity held a contest for its new symbols and eventually a slightly modified version of the 2009 arms was adopted, adding two golden oak leaves instead of the top group of three leaves around the wavy line.

Kiseljak, 2009 – 2011

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In 2009 Kisaljek adopted modified symbols, based on the previous ones, replacing the tricolour background with a gray one and adding fleurs-de-lis in the design. The representatives of the Bosniak parties were still disatisfied with the symbols and started the constitutional case, ending with the 2011 ruling one abolishing these symbols.

Kiseljak, 199x – 2009

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The coat of arms of Kiseljak was tierced per bend gules, argent and azure and overall a circular ornament per bend, argent tressure wavy fleury or and chequy gules and argent overall a shield in bend ensigned with a wolf issuant. Instead of a crown, a splash fountain shape gules. The flag was celestial blue with the coat of arms in its centre.

Kreševo

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The coat of arms of Kreševo is gules a monastery argent inset azure with six gates voided issuant from a bar embowed fimbriated argent and in the base a wheel also argent. It is a representation of the Kreševo Franciscan monastery. The design was adopted after a public concourse resulting in half a dozen proposals. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in its centre. The table flag is a vertical version with the name of the municipality inscribed above the coat of arms and with white squares along the top and bottom edges.

Novi Travnik

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The coat of arms of Novi Travnik is ped bend sinistre azure and vert overall eight rightangled isoscales trangles in point gules but the one in the chief dexter or topped with the blue name of the municipality. The central design is named a flower, but it also repsents the cog wheel (production, propultion, dynamics). The yellow triangle represent the country Bosnia and Herzegovina. Novi Travnik was nick-named "the city of flowers and youth" represented by the flower of triangles. The same symbol was already present in a previous emblem of the city. The flag is blue and green obliquely divided following the division line of the coat of arms in its centre. The municipality name is inscribed here white. Two variations of the same design are used, with the shield bordered white and without this outline.

Travnik

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The coat of arms of Travnik is a shield within a golden border on a blue background white outlines of the Vlašić mountain above contoures of the medieval fort of Travnik vertically divided into green and red and flowing from sinister towards the base five-stiped blue stream and over it an open book. The stream is said to represents the hydro-potential of the community. The flag is white with the coat of arms in the centre of it. Vertical flag with the coat of arms in the base is used as the table flag, but it is not prescribed.

Travnik, ca. 1995

No flag.

The coat of arms of Travnik used in 1990's was based on the previously used symbol, with minor modifications - the skyline of the city was added in the top part of the ornament, the star was removed and a large crescent was added along the base. The name of the municipality and a square with a fleur de lis was added in the chief. Probably various colour combinations were used, but only the black and white version was documented well.

Travnik, ca. 1985

No flag.

The coat of arms of Travnik adopted prior to 1990 included an ornament in a shield shape. The ornament consisted of a rams head afrontee design in the lower part and at the period the almost inevitable five-pointed star in the chief.

Vitez

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The coat of arms of Vitez is or bordered sable serrated gules a bronze sword ancient pointed downwards proper. This is a depiction of the sword from Veliki Mošunj archologic site of the so called Butmir Culture (ca. 3000 BC, Neolithic Age). The serrated edge is also a reference to the ancient inhabitants of the region. The colours are determined in metalic shades, the shield is in the colour of unoxidated bronze, the sword in the colour of oxidated copper, while the black and red in the border are also of certain metal shades. The serrations in the border form letters V for Vitez. The flag is pale yellow with the coat of arms in its centre between two horizontal stripes near the edges, the top one light red and the bottom one light green.

Vitez, ca. 1995

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Previously Vitez used a coat of arms gules a knight holding a sword raised over his head armoured argent riding a horse towards sinister of the same harnassed or within a border or containing a ribbon also or inscribed "Vitez" in the chief and another ribbon or inscribed "23. travanj" in the base. The meaning of the name Vitez is knight and thus the arms were showing one. The inscription in the base is date "23rd April" which is St. George, revealing thus that this is the knight depicted. The flag was yellow with the central part of the arms in it, i.e. only the red shield with the rider, without the border and inscriptions.

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