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Page created: 14th August 2000 Last updated: 30th December 2019
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.

Map of the Sisak and Moslavina County.

Sisak and Moslavina County - Cities

Sisačko-moslavačka županija - gradovi

1. Sisak
   • Sisak, 1992 – 1994
   • Sisak, ca. 1990 – 1992
   • Sisak, 1974 – ca. 1990
2. Glina
   • Gornji Klasnić, 1993 – 1997
3. Hrvatska Kostajnica
   • Kostajnica, 1883 – ca. 1950
   • Utolica, 1993 – 1997
4. Kutina
   • Kutina, variants
5. Novska
   • Novska, 1992 – 2000
6. Petrinja
   • Petrinja, 199x
   • Petrinja, 1990/91
   • Jabukovac, 1993 – 1997
7. Popovača
   • Popovača, 1994 – 1995

Since 1993 the Croatian legislation allows the units of local self-government (counties, cities and communities) to have their coat of arms and flag, however these may be legally used only after they are approved by a central state authority. The a flag of a city or community should be of a one colour field with the coat of arms in the centre or offset towards hoist. Some exceptions from this rule are tolerated for the cities with traditional flag established before these rules were made. The coat of arms must follow also a set of rules to be approved. Some cities and communities use unapproved designs nevertheless. See more on the approval dates. Prior to 1993 the coats of arms and flag were not regulated by state legislation.
The official bazon (heraldic descripton) of the coats of arms and descriptions of the flags are according to the approval text of the central state authority, other description according to other city documents.
In 1993, with the new administrative division (re)introducing the county system the kotars were introduced as intermediate level of local self-governing in areas with dense Serb population, as a means to granting them wider self-government. However, due to the aggression and occupation the kotars never lived up, and were dismembered in 1997 reform. In the Sisiak and Moslavina County there was Kotar Glina established, with seat in the same named town, consisting of communities of: Divuša, Donji Kukuruzari, Dvor, Gornji Klasnić, Glina, Gvozdansko, Hrvatska Dubica, Hrvatska Kostajnica, Lasinja, Mečenčani, Topusko, Utolica, Vojnić and Vrginmost. In the 1997 reform some of those are lost, some are included in neighbouring counties and some are promoted to city status. In any case, the Kotar and its communities never functioned, and certainly did not have the symbols.
Except those, in 1997 the communities of Ivanić Grad, Kloštar Ivanić and Križ are excluded from the County and added to Zagreb County (Ivanić Grad was promoted to city status even earlier), while the communities of Vojnić and Lasinja was added to Karlovac County. The communities of Gornji Klasnić, Jabukovac and Utolica were included into the neighbouring cities. In 2013 Popovača was granted the city status.

• Sisak and Moslavina County
• Croatia - Counties
• Croatia

Sisak

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The coat of arms of Sisak is a modernisation of the seal of privileged market of Sisak, granted by a charter of the Zagreb Chapter on 31 December 1838. When the military and civil Sisak united in 1874, that became its joint coat of arms, confirmed also in the 1896 statutes: azure, on an island vert surrounded with rivers a city massoned argent with three circular towers embatteled and with loopholes and on the rivres a ship (blazon after Laszowski, 1934). The flag is quartered by a white cross in blue and green, with the coat of arms in the centre.

Sisak, 1992 – 1994

Basically the same design with the previous coat of arms artwork, wihtout the crown over the shield was adopted in 1992.

Sisak, ca. 1990 – 1992

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Prior to the adoption of the current design, the city used a different artistic rendering of its historical coat of arms. The flag was bicolour of green over blue divided with a thin white line and with the coat of arms in its centre - the colours derived from the coat of arms. This design of the flag provided for inspiration for the subsequent one.
In 1991 the city also used a coat of arms design with a crown similar to the one eventually adopted in 1994.

Sisak, 1974 – ca. 1990

In the late socijalist period, Sisak used the coat of arms similar to the first post-socijalist version with a red five-pointed star.

Glina

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The coat of arms of Glina depicts the plan of the city with confluence of the river Maja into Glina and with her streets crossing at right angles forming a shape similar to the Croatian coat of arms. The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the centre of it, arranged for the horizontal or vertical hoisting. Table flags are of the same general vertical design with the city name inscribed white along the bottom.

Until 1997 Glina had status of a community.

Hrvatska Kostajnica

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The coat of arms of Hrvatska Kostajnica is divided by a fess argent, azure a three-towered city of the first and or walls also of the first with opened gates on which a white falcon displyed stands. The Kostajnica arms were recorded in use in the 18th century, but due to intricate details it was often variously interpreted, so that on the gates there was depicted a black imperial double eagle and an arrow was included in the fess, while the paschal lamb was prescribed above the shield (so in Ströhl). The white falcon was, as it appears, in the original design depicted issuing from the central tower, while the lamb was above the shield. Laszowski interpret is without the falcon, with the lamb above the city gates. In the contemporary arms the falcon is prescribed above the gates, although the Laszowski's design with the lamb is main still used in practice. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the centre. While the coat of arms size in the flag is prescribed in details, the actual flags seems to regularly display a larger coat of arms than that. It is not clear which artwork was approved with the approved blazon.

Until 1997 Hrvatska Kostajnica had status of a community. In the 2012 Decision a copying error was introduced, omitting words "crtež grada s visokom ulaznom kulom. Uz ulaznu kulu sa svake strane nalazi se", and the same was propagated in the new text of the 2019 Statutes.

Kostajnica, 1883 – ca. 1950

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms printed in the 1883 Statutes includes no indication of colours, except for the blue background in the top and black in the very bottom. The drawing here is an attempt to reconstruct it from the small image in the Statutes.

Kutina

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The coat of arms of Kutina is azure on a square lozenge chequy bendy gules and argent fimbriated or a magpie also argent. The shield is topped with a white scarf with golden fringe and two green leaves - a vine and an oak. It is based on the arms of Kutina's medieval lords Csupor de Monoszlo (Čupor Moslavački), whose most prominent member was Demetrius II Csupor de Monoszlo, installed in 1446 for the bishop in Knin. The coat of arms of Csupor family is known already in the 14th century. Until the end of the 15th century the family died out and their estates were eventually inherited by Erdödy family that since then held also their second attribute de Monoszlo. The magpie is said to symbolize labour towards richness, and the white magpie to stand for teh Pauline order, active on Csupor's lands.
The flag is a vertical white flag with a red stripe along the top and blue along the bottom, each covering one sixth of the length, and the coat of arms is set in the centre. It has a triangular indentation at the fly end. It should be edged with yellow around the outer edges and it should have yellow fringe along the fly end, although flags without the edge and fringe are recorded (also apparently in the ratio 1:2). As table flag it is rectangular in form without the indentation.

Moslavac, 1993, claims that the decision on the symbols was made on 10 November 1992, but the official gazette provides the date 29 September 1992.

Kutina, variants

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A white flag with the coat of arms only was recorded in use for a period. Such table flag in vertical form was also used with the name of the city inscribed under the downward offset coat of arms. The coat of arms was also occasionally (and errorneously) used in variant with purple field.

Novska

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The coat of arms of Novska is gules a cross double parted argent. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.

Novska, 1992 – 2000

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Novska was using a different coat of arms: tierced fimbriated argent per fess chief per pale, 1. chequy gules and argent, 2. azure three oak leaves vert and two acorns or and 3. tierced or, azure and maroon fimbriated argent overall a herron proper. The flag was bicolour of yellow over blue with the coat of arms in the canton.

Petrinja

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The coat of arms of Petrinja is per fess gules and argent ovarall a castle embattled of the second issuant masoned and with a gates sable, portcullis or and two towers roofed of the first and an hawk sable displayed crowned also or holding the pinnacles of the towers. Petrinja uses a coat of arms in a seal as a military community since 17th century, showing an Imperial eagle with sword and sceptre above a castle issuing from the base. In 19th and 20th century this is shown as azure a castle argent issuant with two towers roofed gules and in the chief an eagle sable holding a sword and a sceptre. Ströhl mentions that the shield is topped with a royal crown with purple lining. When Petrinja gained the city status in 1872, the 1896 Statutes determined its arms as described above - replacing the imeprial eagle with a hawk, crowning it, but removing the sword and the sceptre. This signifies transfer from the military administration into the Civil Croatia. In 1990's a similar coat of arms with red background was used (also on a blue flag), but was not formally adopted. Variations of the red-white shield are used since late 1990's, still without official adoption and at least since 2003 a white flag with two rows of red and white cheques along both the top and bottom edge with that coat of arms is reported. The official adoption process is not finished yet.

Petrinja, 199x

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Petrinja, 1990/91

No flag.

The 1990 statutory amendments removed the red five-pointed star over the hawk from the Art. 9 of the 1986 Statutes, vitually introducing the current design (probably without the crown on its head).

Popovača

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The coat of arms of Popovača is azure on a green hill a building gules with a portal argent infront of a belfry also argent, an inescutcheon azure a deer issuing from a wheel all argent issuant from the base, surrounded with a wreath of vine leaves and bunches of grapes all argent. It depicts the facade of the community hall, the portal of the castle and the belfry is from the St. Ane church in Osekovo. On the doors is the coat of arms of Erdödy i.e. Bakač family of 1489. The flag is white with the coat of arms, used both in vertical and horizointal variants. It should have yellow ribbon around the edges, but this seems to be omitted on the outdoor flags. Although the height of the coat of arms in it is prescribed half the width of the flag, it seems that larger arms are used in general. The vertical version that includes fly tails and is edged in gold is presumably the ceremonial version, although it is not explicitly prescribed.

Until 2013 Popovača had the community status.

Popovača, 1994 – 1995

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The coat of arms originally adopted, although it had slightly different description, included the same design as the current one, but adding three green treetops on each side of the central charges. The tower was differently shaped, as well. The flag was white-red-white-blue-white five striped flag with the central stripe fivefold wider then each other stripe and with the coat of arms in the centre. It was prescribed also for vertical hoisting with the arms properly rotated.

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