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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 18 (Trž-Vod)

• Tržič °
  • Tržič, 1964 – 1997
• Turnišče *
• Velenje ° ^M
  • Velenje, 1992 – 2009
  • Titovo Velenje, 198x – 1991
• Velika Polana +
• Velike Lašče *
  • Velike Lašče, 1995 – 2000
• Veržej +
• Videm *
  • Videm, rejected proposal
  • Videm, 1996
• Vipava *
  • Vipava, ceremonial flag
• Vitanje *
• Vodice *

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

• Slovenia - Communities
• Slovenia

Tržič

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The coat of arms of the community of Tržič is Azure, massoned walls Argent issuant from base with four embattlements. The flag is somewhat simplified banner of arms, vertically divided blue and white embattled. The coat of arms of Tržič - known by its Greman name Neumarktl in Krain, was used at least since 19th century, depicting such walls in the shield, sometimes with the doors in the base, within a cartouche. The colours varried (white walls in blue, cf. Laszowski; red walls in white, black walls in red…) finally standardized in 1980's.

Tržič, 1964 – 1997

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Some time after the Warld War II Tržič was using its historical coat of arms in black and red colours. At least since 1964 it was modernized following the historical drawings, showing white embatelled walls with wooden closed gates in a blue shield. The red flag with that coat of arms arms was recorded in use, although it was not formally adopted. The red field is said to symbolise the cordovan leather industry traditional in Tržič.
Šter writes in 2012 on his memories how the modernized design was introduced in 1974 instead of the black and red one (although white walls with gates on blue were prescribed as the municipal "emblem" at the time already for 10 years!)

Turnišče

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The emblem used as the coat of arms is golden bordered green shield with golden image of a window, two corn ears, scissors, a skin and a horse-shoe. Around 2010 it was set in the centre of a white table flag with the name of the community above it, but the decision on the flag was not made. Since around 2012 the flag of three stripes of yellow, orange and green with the coat of arms next to the hoist is used, but it seems it was not formally adopted.

Velenje

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The coat of arms is Or in base civic walls with roofed towers Vert in base from which is issuant a skyscraper Argent. The symbolic should be read as referring the traditional (embattled walls) and modern (skyscraper). The vertical flag is the primary flag vertical divided green and yellow bicolour with the coat of arms off-set to the base. The horizontal version and other variations are allowed in certain cases. This design is modernization and "vexillolgization" of the 1992 design.

Since 1960's to 1991 the city was called Titovo Velenje.

Velenje, 1992 – 2009

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The design of the coat of arms adopted in 1992 after public concourse is basically the same as used currently, although the shades of colours were somewhat different, and the skyscraper was actually coloured very pale blue. The flag, adopted in 1995 was pale yellow with a pale green stripe in base and with the coat of arms off-set to hoist.
The 1991 decisions cited in Banderas must be referring to something else, since this design was adopted by a public concourse in 1992 only.

Titovo Velenje, 198x – 1991

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The coat of arms pictures symbolically hands of the mine and factory workers in a red field, a blue inverted chevron embowed standing for the city's initial V, and the Yugoslav red five-pointed star fimbriated golden in a white filed, together forming the Slovenian tricolour.

The town and the municipaliyt were renamed in 1981 to Titovo Velenje.

Velika Polana

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The coat of arms of Velika Polana is per fess fimbriated or azure three daisy flowers argent seeded or and vert on a base sable a stork proper. The daisies (Slov. marjetke) cant the name of the community (meaning "great meadow") known as the site of storks. The flag is blue with two yellow stripes forming a square blue area in the middle with three daisies, two over one.

Velike Lašče

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Per fess embattled fimbriaed or, in chief azure a book argent binded gules between two ink bottles of the third with ink of the second with as many feathers proper, and in base vert a tur oxen of the first. The book and the writing tools represent that from this region emerged number of prominent Slovenian writers in last 500 years. The oxen is fgound in the coat of arms of the noble family Auersperg or Turjaški canting their name in both languages. The flag is blue with two vertical white stripes forming a central blue field containing the book and ink bottles with feathers from the coat of arms.

Velike Lašče, 1995 – 2000

No flag.

Previous coat of arms that were used by the community were described lapidary in the 1995 statutes: "… composed of a shield with a crown with five columns and four open spaces. Beneath is the Slovenian tricolour above which is rising a silver Pegasus." No coloured image was reported. No flag was adopted at the time.

Veržej

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The coat of arms pictures in a field azure a carp nainaint argent beneath a triple winded cord fesswise and in base six bandlets wavy five lower argent and one or. The flag is blue with two vertical stripes of white forming a central square field containing the charges from the coat of arms.

Videm

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The coat of arms is per fess chief per pale azure a corn stalk issuant with two leaves or, or a vine branch fesswise with a leaf vert and a bunch of grapes gules and argent a wooden bridge vert over a base wavy azure adopted in February 1997. The original flag adopted was changed in September to the current design - green with the coat of arms set in the centre, with the top edge of the arms parallel with the hoist.
The bridge was selected as the municipal symbol as the element connecting the settlements and citizens and at the time of adoption there were total of 71 bridges in the municipality.

The Local Community of Tržec adopted symbols in 2002, the coat of arms depicting a grain loft (kozolec) with three crossbars, for the three villages, and a mill wheel. The Local Community of Sela coat of arms depicts a linden tree. The old coat of arms of Stara Gora was depicting the Holy Spirit.

Videm, rejected proposal

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The flag adopted in 1997 was green with a rectangular panel containing the charge from the base field of the coat of arms. However, the community soon decided to change it with the flag with the full coat of arms.

Videm, 1996

Flag unknown.

Prior to the adoption of the current coat of arms, the community used a similar design in unheraldic graphic layout, containing already all the elements as the eventually adopted design. The colours are not certain, as it was shown only in two colour (black and green) print.

Vipava

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The coat of arms is argent on a triple mount azure a vine tree proper with two bunches of grapes vert and two leaves of the same. This is the modernization of the town's coat of arms recorded in 1689. There are two verions of the flag - regular and ceremonial, each in horizontal and vertical variant. The regular flag is blue over green bicolour with the coat of arms in the middle. The ceremonial flag, used only on the high holydays and special occasions, is with the coat of arms of-set towards hoist and with golden fringe along the fly edge.

Vipava, ceremonial flag

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Vitanje

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Purpure, three Escallops proper or In wine-red field three shells is the blazon of the coat of arms of Vitanje. The artistic rendition is copied from the representation in the parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Vitanje, on the right window behind the altar. According to the legend, in undetermined long past there was a lake in the valley of Vitanje community. The lords of Vitanje used this coat of arms as their family arms around 15th century, and the town took it for its own latter on. The flag of the community is adopted finally in 1996, vertical triband of wine-red and white with the coat of arms in the middle.

Vodice

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The coat of arms of Vodice is a modern shield divided into upper yellow and lower blue field by a wavy white line that on the edges continues into the white shield outline. In the blue field there are white rectangles. The coat of arms is canting the place-name, picturing the abstract geologic symbol for underground waters. The yellow field symbolise the sun, energy and rich fields. The flag is based on the colours from the coat of arms, divided into two unequal fields with the coat of arms on their boundary.

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