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Page created: 13th October 2000 Last updated: 15th January 2014
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.

Herzegovina - Neretva Canton - Communities

Hercegovačko-neretvanski kanton - općine

• Čapljina
• Čitluk
• Jablanica
• Konjic
  • Konjic, variant
• Mostar
  • Mostar (Western), ca. 1995
• Neum
  • Neum, 198x – 1996
• Prozor – Rama
  • Rama, ca. 1995
• Ravno
• Stolac
  • Stolac, ca. 1999

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

Čapljina

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Beside the Croat chequy field, there is a representation of the old tower of Počitelj 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 (Čaplja = a kind of stork). The flag was previously reported yellow over red - status unknown, possibly wrong.

Čitluk

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The coat of arms of the community of Čitluk is in a 14th century gothic shield shape 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 renown 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, which is today preserved as the name of the plateau on which the community is situated - Brotnjo. The plant growing abundantly there was an important medieval red textile 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 locally produced quality white wines žilavka.

Jablanica

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The coat of arms of Jablanica pictures the dam and the accumulation 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 built in 1955 and was one of the most important post-World War II engineering 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 to thorn down all the bridges over the 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

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The coat of arms pictures the Konjic stone bridge white over the Neretva river in blue between green mountains and in the base green silhuette of the Boračko lake. Two versions seems to be in use, one with white background and inscribed name of the municipality in the chief and the other with gray background and the name in the centre with the year 1382. This is the year when Konjic was first mentioned in written sources, in a diplomatic document of the Dubrovnik Republic. The flag is reported white using the latter, both in vertical and horizontal version.

Konjic, variant

No flag.

Mostar

Grad Mostar

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The coat of arms of the city of Mostar is blue with the depcition of the Mostar Old Bridge over the Neretva river. The bridge (most), of course, cants the name of the city. The flag is white with a silver falling diagonal stripe and the coat of arms in its centre. The table flag in vertical version is also reported in use. The details of the flag construcion are unconfirmed.

The city of Mostar was in the early 1990's divided 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 bendlets gules and overall a Latin cross or, crowned or and with the year of the city establishment in a ribbon below. The bendlets are inspired with the family arms of Katarina Vukčić Kosača-Kotromanić, daughter of Herzog 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 Tomaš 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.
At least since 2010 Neum also uses horzontal flag being simple tricolour with the coat of arms in its centre and a vertical table flag tricolour with the double-sized central stripe and the coat of arms in it.

Neum, 198x – 1996

No flag.

The coat of arms of Neum adopted in mid-1980's was or an eight-pointed segmented star gules and the base azure engrailed fimbriated argent topped with the black inscription of the municipality name. The flag was not adopted.

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 are the medieval arms of Bosnia: an arm holding a scimitar. In medieval scripts this coat of arms was often captioned Rama, the term designated more or less the entire modern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
This coat of arms and the flag was used by the community of Rama established within HRHB.

Ravno

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Ravno is a semicircular shield outlined with red, in white two red squares in each corner and a blue base. In the centre of the white field a yellow floral-faunal ornament, and in the blue field a white proteus (olm, Proteus anguinus) and a white line indicating cave. The shield is topped with a red outlined white panel with golden triple-wattle ornament. The proteus symbolise Vjeternica cave, the largest in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The floral-faunal ornament is from stone monuments (stečak). No flag is apparently in use.

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.

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