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Map of the Vukovar and Srijem County.

Vukovar and Srijem County - Communities

Vukovarsko-srijemska županija -općine

1. Andrijaševci
   • Andrijaševci, 1994 – 1999
2. Babina Greda
   • Babina Greda, 2003 – 2004
   • Babina Greda, 1994 – 2003
3. Bogdanovci
4. Borovo
   • Borovo, variants
5. Bošnjaci
6. Cerna
7. Drenovci
8. Gradište
   • Gradište, 1993 – 1998
9. Gunja
10. Ivankovo
11. Jarmina
12. Lovas
13. Markušica
14. Negoslavci
15. Nijemci
16. Nuštar
17. Privlaka
18. Stari Jankovci
19. Stari Mikanovci
20. Štitar
21. Tompojevci
    • Tompojevci, ca. 1994 – 2022
22. Tordinci
23. Tovarnik
    • Tovarnik, 1994
24. Trpinja
25. Vođinci
26. Vrbanja

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 community documents.
In 1997 the communities of Privlaka and Vođinci were formed and in 1998 Negoslavci and Markušica. In 2006 the community of Štitar was formed.

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Andrijaševci

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The coat of arms of Andrijaševci is argent a hound rampant holding in its jaws a loaf of bread or. The dog shown is Croatian Sheepdog (Hrvatski ovčar), typical for black hair, indigenous for this region. The flag is red with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the centre of it. The ceremonial flag is a dark red gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails and the golden fringe along the bottom endge. The coat of arms is in the centre, the community name in two arches above and three oak ornaments in the tails. The table flag is a version of the ceremonial flag.

Andrijaševci, 1994 – 1999

The symbols adopted by Andrijaševci in 1994 were different. The coat of arms was in a shield shape, with the Croatian tricolour above a marten topping the shield. The shield showed on a light blue background a smaller shield with eight visible red-white cheques. Below it, on a dark blue background was a part of the Gothic arch from Rokovačke zidine [Rokovac walls]. In the right was the Church of St. Andrew in Andrijaševci and on the left the Church of St. Roch in Rokovci. The churches are set on a green background, representing banks of the Bosut river connected with a bridge. In the lower part of the arms, on dark blue background was a cart wheel, oak leaf, acorn and wheat ear, characterizing the basic activities of the region.
The flag is diagonally into white and golden-yellow with the coat of arms in its centre, slightly towards the top.

Babina Greda

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The coat of arms of Babina Greda is azure a fess or in the chief a mullet also or and in the base a bar argent. The fess is canting (greda means a beam), representing the legendary "beam" - the higher non-flooded ground next to the rivers where the place deveoped, the star is a symbol of god Mars connecting the coat of arms with the coat of arms of Slavonia, while the white bar symbolizes the rivers of Sava and Berava. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the centre.
Although the newer Statutes claim that this is a hitorical coat of arms ("historical mark"), it ios nevertheless devised only in 2003.

Babina Greda, 2003 – 2004

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The decision of 2003 that was soon amended defined the red border around the shield, slightly smaller coat of arms in the flag and the somewhat unusual dimensions of the flag of 90×190 cm.

Babina Greda, 1994 – 2003

The coat of arms of Babina Greda adopted in 1994 was azure two horse heads argent and a belfry proper issuant from an inescutscheon chequy gules and argent and in the base two maize ears or. The horses refer to the traditional manifestation in Babina Greda. The tower is of the church of St. Laurent. The flag was golden-yellow vertical flag with the coat of arms set in the centre slightly towards the top.

Bogdanovci

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The coat of arms of Bogdanovci is auzre a brown hawk armed or standing on a tree stump. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the center of it.
A public competition of their design was issued in 2013, limited for the municipal citizens. It was repeated in 2019.

Borovo

Borovo - Борово

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The coat of arms of Borovo is gules a scythe, a knife and a plough argent and in base two corn ears with a blue ribbon. Such arms were used in a seal since around 1884, shown in colours by Laszowski. The flag was introduced in use ca. 2001, yellow with the coat of arms in the centre. The new graphical representation of the basically the same design was introduced ca. 2014. Table flags in vertical format ending triangularly, inscribed with the community name in the base are recorded in use.

Borovo, variants

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Previously used design of the coat of arms was a bit cruder in artwork, following more closely the depiction from Laszowski. It was set somewhat smaller in a yellow flag. The same was used in a flag celebrating 770 years of the first mention of the place in documents in celebrated 2001 and these flags were used and are still used occasionally. The emblem encircles the coat of arms with a blue shape inscribed in the top with the anniversary "770" and the year of the document "1231." and the place name in two rows below.

Bošnjaci

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The coat of arms of Bošnjaci is vert a wooden bin proper with wheat or. This kind of bin, locally named oborak was one of the main traditional products of the village. The flag is green with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the centre. The ceremonial flag is dark green gonfalon ending triangulary with golden fringe, the coat of arms bordered yellow in the centre, name of the community above and wheat garb and oak branch below it. Variants of inscirptions are shown in different drawings, the first word being in a line or in an arch, no actual flag in use to confirm it.

Cerna

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The coat of arms of Cerna used since mid-90's (although it was not formally adopted, apparently) is in a blue shield with yellow base forming two cotized triangles, from it is raising a maroon cross with two cross-bars interlaced with the Croatian chequy shield infront of a yellow square lozenge bordered yellow, which border forms two wattled squares in the base. The shield is topped with a white ribbon inscribed red CERNA. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the middle. The height of the coat of arms is 2/3 of the width of the flag.
In February 2008 the community begun procedure for adoption of new symbols, as the previous could not be approved by the central authorities, since they do not conform to the heraldic tradition.

Drenovci

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The community uses an (apparently unoriginal) emblem depicting an oak twige with three acorns. Table flags are white vertical flags with the emblem in the centre over the inscription of the community name in two rows, all brown.

Gradište

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The coat of arms of Gradište is gules a fleur-de-lis fleury and in chef two gourds or with double wattle sable. The flag is yellow with the coat of arms in the centre. Unlike the more usual of the same colour as the official flag, the ceremonial flag is a blue gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails, the central one being longer, with the coat of arms in the centre, the name of the community in two arched lines above and three oak branches ornaments in the tails.

Gradište, 1993 – 1998

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The coat of arms of Gradište adopted in 1993 is described so: "[it] is in a shield shape, in ratio of width and height 1:1.25. It is divided horizontally in two fields with a line contoure of the Gradište hill - the most important relief feature of the teritory. In the top blue field, on the contoure it is standing a chapel and to its left four stations of the Cross, symbolizing the sacral gropup of buildings - so called Kalvarija - unique and dominant characteristic of Gradište. The location of the _Danica_ star [Morning star] (coloured yellow) - an ohter important issue of our nationality - in the COA matches that in reality. The lower field of the shield is in fact a segment of the historical Croatian arms - the cheques. In the top white field - belowe the small church - a gourd, recounts in a tighter sence on the colouring of gourds - the original Gradište art, but also on the inclination of the citizens to ennoble thier everyday lifes. In the lower white field in contoures - the drawing of a marten - also a detail from the state arms, as a sign of affiliation to Slavonia. The entire shield is edged with a yellow border. Above the shield is a ribbon with the name of the place. The ribbon is blue and the letters are white, 'Bold' in type."
The flag was yellow vertical flag with two stripes near the dexter edge (1+2+1+2+14) and the coat of arms set in the top half of the sinister yellow field. "The two blue stripes are the two rivers of the region - Bosut and Berava, at the west of the community territory and the yellow stripes represent the corn fields, in fact the main activity of the inhabitants - the agriculture."

Gunja

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The coat of arms of Gunja is azure St. Jacob stantant holding a staff in his dexter and a scroll in his sinister and wearing a bag ensigned with a shell all or. This refers to the Church of St. Jacob the Apostle built in Gunja in 1849. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms bordered golden in the centre of it.

Ivankovo

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The coat of arms of Ivankovo is argent a cornucopia maroon with a sunflower, grapes, apple, pear, wheat and corn all proper. The flag is golden-yellow with the coat of arms bordered golden-yellow in the centre of it. Golden-yellow and white are traditional colours of the folk costume in the region, while cornucopia signifies rich agricultural production. The ceremonial flag is in form of a yellow gonfalon ending triangularly bordered golden with golden fringe along the bottom, with the coat of arms in its centre, the green inscribed name of the community above and green branches of oak and linden below. The table flag is of the same general deisgn bordered green.

Jarmina

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The coat of arms of Jarmina is per fess wavy or divided into azure and vert and in the last an apple and a bunch of grapes all or. The flag is prescribed as blue with the coat of arms in its centre. The actual flags in use are light blue with white outline around the coat of arms.

Lovas

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The coat of arms (emblem) of Lovas shows St. Michael as Roman warrior in somewhat unusual posture, holding an oval shield with a Latin cross and inscription "Quis ut Deus" (who is like God, the Latin translation of the meaning of the Hebrew name Michael) and with flaming sword held above his head in a white shield bordered golden including the name of the community inscribed in the base. The table flag is buff (or beige) vertical flag with the coat of arms in its centre and the name of the community inscribed along the bottom. It seems that the regular flag is not used and apparently the symbols were not adopted in the statutes or approved by the central authorities.
In 2006 the community hired the Heraldic Art company to prepare an acceptable design of the coat of arsm depicting St. Michael, the flag and the gonfalon, however, it seems that the process of its adoption was not continued.

Negoslavci

Negoslavci - Негославци

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The coat of arms of Negoslavci is gules a Latin cross bottony or. The flag is blue with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the middle.

The Negoslavci Community was formed in 1998 seceding from the community of Bogdanovci.

Nijemci

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The coat of arms of Nijemci is azure on a mount vert a fortress embatteled and walled argent with loop holes and opened doorway sable with doors maroon and a cross above the doorway also sable, to sinister of the fortress a horse rampant sable and in chief dexter a crescent and in sinister a mullet both or and in base two embowed bars wavy azure fimbriated argent. The flag is vertically divided into green and white with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle (this apparently describes a vertical flag).
Table flags of the same design withthe communiyt name inscribed golen in an arc above were recordfed in use.

Nuštar

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The coat of arms of Nuštar is azure St. Anne holding the baby Jesus in her dexter sitting on a bench argent and reading from an open book also argent on her lap. St. Anne, mother of Virgin Mary is the patron of the community. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the middle.

Privlaka

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms used by Privlaka is or a bend sinistre argent overall a church also argent roofed gules. It is a representation of the local parish chuch of St. Martin the Bishop, built in the end of the 18th century.
The community has not formally adopted any symbols.

The Community of Privlaka was formed in 1997 seceding from the previous community of Otok. The name of the community is often attributed Privlaka kod Otoka (kod Vinkovaca) for differenciation of Privlaka kod Nina (kod Zadra).

Stari Jankovci

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The coat of arms of Stari Jankovci is gules two corn ears or in saltire issuant from the base. The flag is light blue with the yellow bordered coat of arms in the centre. These symbols supersede those adopted in February 2003, including a ceremonial flag, too, however, the details of the previous symbols are not known. The ceremonial flag is a pale blue gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails of which the central one is longer, each ending with a golden tassel. The coat of arms is in its centre toped with the name of the community in three rows and with a golden branches of oak and linden below.

Stari Mikanovci

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The coat of arms of Stari Mikanovci is azure a double vessel or on a mount vert. The vessel shown is an ancient vessel from the Vučedol culture (3000 - 2300 BC) found in Mikanovci. The flag is blue with the coat of arms bordered white in the centre. A table flag is used of light blue bordered white with triangualar ending, with the coat of arms in the middle bordered white, the name of the community inscribed above yellow and branch of oak and a bunch of maize in the base.
In 1998 an other design was adopted, although not published, its author was Martin Jakšić. This design was rejected by the central authorities.

Štitar

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The coat of arms of Štitar is in a triangular shield argent a hawk maron armed or holding a shield gules. The shield in the coat of arms is canting for the community name meaning a shieldbearer. The flag is light blue with the coat of arms in the centre bordered yellow. The ceremonial flag is a light blue gonfalon with three triangularly ending tails with tassels, edged yellow with the coat of arms in the centre, the name of the community in an arch and a line above and a golden branch of oak and wheat ears.

The Štitar Community was formed in 2006 seceding from the city of Županja.

Tompojevci

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The coat of arms of Tompojevci is argent five reed stalks issuant. It shows marsh plant known as reed, reedmace, or bulrush. The flag is light blue with the coat f arms bordered yellow inthe centre of it. The ceremonial flag is a light blue gonfalon ending triangularly with golden fringe, with the coat of arms in the centre, the community name in two arches above, and mais stalks and oak branch beneath.

Tompojevci, ca. 1994 – 2022

The community of Tompojevci used two designs concurrently - none formally adopted - vert a base wavy maroon fimbriated azure overall a corn ear or flanked in the chief with two oak leaves of the same and or a bend wavy azure overall a letter T sable between a corn ear or and a tree outlined vert and the base maroon. The latter was used in the centre of a pale green vertical table flag with the community name inscribed along the bottom in two rows.

Tordinci

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The coat of arms is gules a chief and a pale argent. The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the centre. The tau-cross in the coat of arms (although not quite precisely described simply as a cross in the community documents) is the initial of the community name.

Tovarnik

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The coat of arms of Tovarnik is azure a ploughshare argent in pale above a scythe and a rake sable bladed argent in saltire and two corn ears crossed in base. These are said to be symbols of villages of Tovarnik and Ilača. The coat of arms is the historical coat of arms of Tovarnik, based on the 1860 seal and coloured by Laszowski. The flag is a horizontally divided into seven stripes of golden and white with the coat of arms in the middle. The status of the symbols (approval by the cnetral authorities) is unknown.

Tovarnik, 1994

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The community adopted its historical coat of arms following the Laszowski depiction and at the same time it adopted a flag of tri stripes of white-yellow-white, the central one being double the width of each of the other stripes, and with the coat of arms in the centre. The flag description was not included in the subsequent 1994 Statutes, and by the time it was eventually included in the 2001 Statutes, it was changed to the seven-striped flag. As the community was functioning in exile in the first half of 1990's, the documentation is lacking and an intermediate decision might have been made.

Trpinja

Trpinja - Трпиња

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The coat of arms is Or a Trefoil slipped Vert. The flag is blue with the coat of arms in the centre.

Vođinci

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The coat of arms of Vođinci is gules a plough or. The flag is blue with the golden bordered coat of arms in its centre. The ceremonial flag is a blue gonfalon ending in three triangularly ending tails with fringe along the bottom, with the coat of arms in the centre, the community name in an arch and a line above and oak ornaments in the tails. Table flag are of simplified form - vertical ending triangularly, with the coat of arms in the centre, the community name above and two oak branches in saltire below.

The Vođinci Community was formed in 1997 seceding from the community of Stari Mikanovci.

Vrbanja

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The coat of arms of Vrbanja is "in a squarish shield, vert, in chief oak leaves and an acorn or and in base four wheat ears also or". The flag is white with the coat of arms bordered yellow in the centre. The ceremonial flag is a white gonfalong ending triangularly with golden fringe, the coat of arms in the centre, the community name above and an oak branch and a wheat garb below.

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