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Herzegovina- Neretva Canton - Communities

Hercegovačko-neretvanski kanton - općine

• Capljina
• Citluk
• Jablanica
• Konjic
• Mostar
  • Mostar (Western), ca. 1995
• Neum
• Prozor - Rama
  • Rama, ca. 1995
• Ravno
• Stolac
  • Stolac, ca. 1999

• Herzegovina- Neretva Canton
• Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Bosnia and Herzegovina

Capljina

Čapljina

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Beside the Croat chequy field, there is a representation of the old tower of Pocitelj in blue, and in base image of St. Francis - franciscans have had always great influence in the region, and two birds of the stork family, chanting the name of the city ('Caplja' = a kind of stork). The flag was previously reported yellow over red - status unknown, possibly wrong.

Citluk

Čitluk

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The coat of arms of the community of Čitluk is in a 14th century gothic shieldshape per fess azure a Calvary cross argent between two branches of madder vert and gules two bars argent. The Calvary cross such as shown in the coat of arms is erected on a mountain near Međugorje, a world reknown place of pilgrimage that is situated in the south of the community. The madder plant (Rubia trinctorum) called in Croatian broć is canting for the ancient name of Čitluk, that is today preserved as the name of the paltteau on which the community is situated - Brotnjo. The plant growing abundantly there was an important medieval red texitle dye. The red and white stripes are reminiscent to the Croatian chequy of gules and argent.
The flag is golden yellow with the coat of arms in the middle. The golden yellow shade should be such as the colour of the localy produced quality white wines žilavka.

Jablanica

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The coat of arms of Jablanica pictures the dam and the acumulation lake on the Neretva river with the folklore ornament at chief and in base the broken bridge and all bordered golden yellow. The dam was bult in 1955 and was one of the most important post-World War II engeenering projects. The bridge pictured was thorn down in 1943 by the Tito's partisans during the, so called, Fourth offensive performed by the Axis to finish off with the "Tito's state". In the retreat Tito ordered thoring down all the bridges over Neretva, and the forces were pulled out over an improvised bridge at Jablanica next to a thorn down rail-road bridge. The flag is white with the coat of arms in the middle. The flag is not specifically mentioned in the decision introducing the coat of arms, but has been in use ever since.

Konjic

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms pictures the Konjic stone bridge over the Neretva river.

Mostar

Grad Mostar

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of the city of Mostar is blue with the image of the Mostar bridge over the Neretva river.

The city of Mostar was in the early 1990's divded during the war into the eastern Bosniak and the western Croat city. After the Dayton Agreement it was organized as a complex of six civic communities: Mostar Jug, Mostar Jugoistok, Mostar Jugozapad, Mostar Sjever, Mostar Stari Grad and Mostar Zapad. In 2004 it was integrated into one community named City of Mostar.

Mostar (Western), ca. 1995

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The flag is red with white cross and coat of arms of Western Mostar in the middle. The coat of arms is argent three benlets gules and overall a Latin cross or, corwned or and with the year of the city establishemnt in a ribbon below. The bendlets are inspired with the family arms of Katarina Vukčić Kosača-Kotromanić, daughter of Herzeg Stephen Kosače, the ruler of Hum after whose title the medieval land of Hum was named Herzegovina. The Queen Katarina was the last Bosnian queen, being the wife of the penultimate Bosnian king Stephen Tomash before Bosnia fell under Turkish rule in the second half of the 15th century.
The coat of arms of the city appeared for the first time in magazine "Hum" that was issued during 1994 in Mostar, and it was taken for the coat of arms of the city in early 1995.

Neum

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The flag of Neum is white with a red stripe near the one and a blue stripe near the other longer edge and with the coat of arms in the middle. The coat of arms consists of elements symbolising the sea, a church a sail, the sun, a dove and the chequy pattern.

Prozor - Rama

Rama, ca. 1995

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The Rama cross, in the first field of the shield is erected from ancient times on the nearby mountain and is dominating the region. In the base there is the medieval arms of Bosnia: an arm holding a scimithar. In medieval scripts this coat of arms was often captioned Rama, the term designated more or less the entire modern B&H.
This coat of arms and the flag was used by the community of Rama established within HRHB.

Stolac

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The coat of arms of Stolac consists of symbols of its history: 1. the ruins of Illirian city of Daorsôn (name inscribed in Greek) that are found just above the modern city of Stolac; 2. the tower of Vidoški grad (XV cent.); 3. vine-ornament from stečak (grave stone) from around XIII century and representation of Bregava river. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the middle.

Stolac, ca. 1999

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The flag used in 1990's was vertical, white with a red and blue stripe along each of the long sides.