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Page created: 18th November 1996 Last updated: 8th July 2017
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 Slovenian communities with highighted communities presented on this page. The municipal communities are captioned with bold.

Slovenia - Communities, part 5 (Gra-Idr)

• Grad +
  • Grad, 2011 – 2016
  • Grad, 199x – 2011
• Grosuplje °
  • Grosuplje, 1987 – ca. 1992
• Hajdina +
• Hoče-Slivnica +
  • Hoče-Slivnica, 2000 – 2016
• Hodoš +
  • Hodoš-Šalovci, 1995 – 1998 *
• Horjul +
• Hrastnik °
  • Hrastnik, 198x – 199x
• Hrpelje-Kozina *
• Idrija °

Legend:
° communities formed before 1990's
* communities formed in 1995
+ communities formed in 1998

• Slovenia - Communities
• Slovenia

Grad

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The coat of arms of Grad is azure issuant from a bar embowed a fort with two towers roofed argent ensigned with a crown or and in the base vert a Latin cross or. The fort is canting the community name and depict the largest fortified city in Slovenia, the crown stand for the noble family of Szechy that raised and owned the city. The cross is for the faith. The flag is green-yelow-green triband with the centra stripe of larger width and fimbriated white with the coat of arms in the centre of it. The first public hoisting was on the municipal day on 7 August 2016.

Grad, 2011 – 2016

No flag.

Prior to that the community did not formally adopted any symbols but used instead the historical coat of arms of Széchy family, who ruled the city since the 14th century.

Grad, 199x – 2011

No flag.

The design more closely following the stone carving above the entrance into the old city was used prior to 2011, when the more correct heraldic interpretation was introduced.

Grosuplje

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The coat of arms of modern design divided per fess chief Azure base par pale Vert and Gules overall a Horse Head Sable. The flag is white-green-white triband with the coat of arms in the middle. In the vertical varsion it is set in the lower part of it. The horse head motive is based on a beautiful lead swastika ornament with horse heads of the late Hallstatt culture (5th century BCE). The metal ornament was found near Grosuplje (on Magdalenska gora). The design was chosen as it also represents Grosuplje as important transport station (once carriage station, today also important stop for road transport). The horse head also simulates the letter G. The colours used in the coat of arms represent: green - Dolenjska region (lower Slovenia), red - activity and development.
The previously reported flag that had yellow stripe instead of green and the coat of arms in the centre of the flag seems to have been misreported.

Grosuplje, 1987 – ca. 1992

Flag unknown.

The coat-of-arms-like emblem used by Grosuplje pictured a green bordered white shield with a ruined tower on a green hill made of rings. Around the shield was inscribed the name of the community. The set of logotypes adopted after a public competition held in mid-1980's, included various emblems and inscriptions derived more or less from these arms. There was also a flag prescribed, of unkown design so far.

Hajdina

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The coat of arms pictures Indo-Iranian (latter Roman) deity Mithras wearing black sandals clad in yellow and with yellow hood holding on his back a white ox by the back legs. The area of the community is considered one of the most important provincial centres of Mithraism in the classical period, and no less then five mithraeums (temples) are found in Hajdina. The flag is yellow with green Slovenian cross - the cross design typical for the Slovenian municipal flags. In the square field of the cross is the attribute from the coat of arms - Mithras carrying an oxen.
The Mithraic cult was much spread in the margins of Roman Empire and held for long when the centers took over Christianity, the two religions having much ethic concepts in common.

Hoče-Slivnica

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The coat of arms is Argent in base of a Mount Vert a Wheel issuant from which is rising a chestnut sapling leaved all Or. The community also uses an emblem, consisting of yellow falling diagonal and a green raising diagonal stripe each with a copy of itself as a semitransparent stripe, forming a voided square at the crossing point. The flag is vertical, the ratio 1:3, white with the coat of arms in the centre and part of the emblem around it. Table flags are also used in two varianst, in the ratio 5:12, white with the emlem only, and white with the coat of arms and logotype - black inscription of the community name.

Hoče-Slivnica, 2000 – 2016

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The flag adopted original was yellow with a green square field in the cntre with the semi-wheel and branch from the coat of arms. The symbols represent the Pohorje mountains (green hill), importance of the region as a road-crossing (railroad wheel) and nature and tradition (chestnut tree).

Hodoš

Hodoš – Hodos

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The coat of arms is per pale azure and vert by a halberd argent and in base per chevron embowed gules fimbriated of the third three oak leaves or and overall a rose silver bordered golden with a emanating heart gules ensigned a cross sable. The flag is green square at hoist bearing the white halberd and five lengthwise white and green stripes in the fly.

Hodoš is one of the few communities in Slovenia that has considerable Hungarian population, and Hungarian language (and flag) is official in use in the community.

Hodoš-Šalovci, 1995 – 1998

Hodoš-Šalovci – Hodos-Šalovci

The community did not adopt any symbols in its brief existence.

Horjul

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The coat of arms is azure on a mount vert a church argent behind fortified walls roofed gules. It depicts the fort Tabor with the church of St. Urg (Urh, Ulrich of Augsburg) in Podolnica near Horjul. The same attribute appears in the central square of a blue flag with white broken stripe.

Hrastnik

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The coat of arms is Argent, from a base Sable growing an Oak tree Gules with three leaves Vert. The flag is divided vertically in green-white-green, and in the white square field containing the leaved eradicated oak tree from the coat of arms in the middle.
The symbols are canting Slovenian word for Oak hrast, the rich mineral wealth of the region is shown with the black ground, and the revolutionary past is remembered with the red tree trunk.

Hrastnik, 198x – 199x

Flag unknown.

The coat of arms of Hrastnik was adopted in the style of the time, showing emblems of the main industries of the region - mining and glasswork. The yellow field reminds on the letter H. The chief includes a red five-pointed star and the name of the community. With the independance the chief was deleted, and in 1992 the emblem was adapted for use on the licence plates, but was then soon replaced with the current more heraldic design.

Hrpelje-Kozina

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The coat of arms is Vert over a Saltire Argent a Railway Wheel Sable. The flag is virtually a banner of arms being green with white saltire and a wheel in the middle. The flag for vertical and horizontal hoisting exactly the same in design, which is somewhat unusual among Slovenian communal flags. The symbolic of the emblems is described in the Decision as standing for the prosperity of the areas of the community and the crossings of the important transport routes. The wheel stands for the routes, Andrew's cross for geographic position of the community between three important Northern Adriatic ports and railway and roads connecting them. The white is for the karst region (Mali Kras), the green for nature and mountains of Brkini and Ćićarija.

Idrija

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The coat of arms pictures on a white shield the Roman god Mercury shown as a messenger with wings on legs and holding caduceus. It is topped with a mural crown. The coat of arms depicting Mercury is recorded already by Valvasor in the 17th cenutry. The flag is derived from the colours used on the coat of arms, red over yellow over grey that are called cinnabar red, golden yellow and quicksilver white. The last one refers to mercury mined in Idria since middle ages. The ratio of the flag is determined to 1:2 for horizontal and indoor use and it is allowed to be different for vertical and outdoor flags.

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