Category: Publications

10th HGZD Assembly 2017

Zagreb, 10 February 2017 INVITATION TO THE ANNUAL ASSEMBLY of the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association Esteemed heraldists and vexillologists, dear friends! The 10th Regular Annual HGZD Assembly meets on Tuesday, 28 February 2017 in the Croatian History Museum (HPM), Matoševa st. 9, Zagreb, at 5 p.m. Proposed schedule and agenda: 1. Guided Tour to […]

»Grb i zastava« № 20 Issued

Just as the previous issue that opened the tenth volume, the new celebratory № 20 of our journal »Grb i zastava« is issued in extended volume at 36 pages. It was just sent to the printers and our members may expect it soon in their mail boxes. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam […]

HGZD president appointed a FRC Fellow

Flag Research Center

The US institute for flags named the Flag Research Center (FRC), [in Croatian known as Centar za proučavanje zastava from the translation of the W. Smith’s Flags and Arms Across the World: Grbovi i zastave svijeta, Globus, Zagreb, 1982., p. 7], established in 1962 by Whitney Smith in Winchester, Massachusetts, was reorganized recently, after Smith’s […]

New book Željko Heimer: »Exploring Vexillology through Military Unit Flags«, HGZD, Zagreb, 2016.

Heimer: Exploring Vexillology through Military Unit Flags, HGZD, Zagreb, 2016.

The English edition of the doctoral thesis by Željko Heimer was issued under the title “Exploring Vexillology through Military Unit Flags” published by HGZD and distributed though the American publishing house Lulu specialized for the print-on-demand. The issue was edited by Edward B. Kay, under whose guidance the book represents a real gem in any […]

Issued »Proceedings of the Scientific and Professional Symposium “Symbol, Identity and Homeland War”, Zagreb, 31 October 2014«, HGZD, Zagreb, 2016

Zbornik “Simbol, identitet i Domovinski rat”, 2014., HGZD, Zagreb, 2016.

Following preparations that took longer then we initially hoped for, finally the proceeding book of the symposium was issued. The scientific and professional symbposium “Symbol, Identity andthe Homeland War” was held in Zagreb on 31 October 2014 in the Library of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb, co-organized by […]

New Book Davor Zovko: »Knighthood Today«, Naklada sv. Antuna, Zagreb, 2016.

Zovko: Viteštvo danas, Naklada Sv. Antuna, Zagreb, 2016.

A new book by Swedish and Croaian heraldist Davor Zovko, issued by the St. Anthony Publishing House Zagreb, presents phaleristic and history of knightly orders, two disciplines close to both heraldry and vexillology, and includes several chapters directly on heraldry (e.g. describing knightly insignia in coats of arms). Besides one may find coats of arms […]

New book Trako Poljak: »Croatian Symbolic Identity«, TIM press, Zagreb, 2016

Trako Poljak: Hrvatski simbolički identitet, TIM press, Zagreb, 2016.

Recently the Zagreb publisher TIM press issued a new monograph by Doc. Dr. Sc. Tijana Trako Poljak titled »Croatian Symbolic Identity« with subtitle »Meanings of National Symbols from Croatian Citizens’ Perspectives«. On 316 pages of paperback binding the monograph is result of the doctoral thesis and the scientific qualitative emipirical research performed in 2013. This […]

»Grb i zastava« № 19 Issued

With the spring issue of 2016 our journal »Grb i zastava« enters its volume 10. The number 19 was just sent to the printers and our members may expiect it soon in their mail boxes. Additional copes may be ordered through the Leykam International publishing house. From the »Editorial« we copy: … this issue of GiZ […]

New Book Heimer: »Syntax of the modern Croatian heraldic blazons and vexillological flag descriptions«, Redak, Split, 2016

Željko Heimer: »Sintaksa suvremenog hrvatskog heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava – Analiza službenih opisa grbova i zastava suvremenih jedinica lokalne samouprave u Republici Hrvatskoj kao temelj za izgradnju i formalizaciju sintaksnih pravila heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava«, Redak, Split, 2016.

Title: Sintaksa suvremenog hrvatskog heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava (In English: Syntax of the modern Croatian heraldic blazons and vexillological flag descriptions) Subtitle: Analiza službenih opisa grbova i zastava suvremenih jedinica lokalne samouprave u Republici Hrvatskoj kao temelj za izgradnju i formalizaciju sintaksnih pravila heraldičkog blazona grba i veksilološkog opisa zastava (In English: […]

100 Columns of Vexillology in »Hrvatski vojnik«

Hrvatski vojnik 494: 47.

The last issue of »Hrvatski vojnik« (The Croatian Soldier), the first Croatian professional military magazine, bi-weekly journal of the Ministry of Defence, published the hundredth column titled “Veksilologija” (Vexillology) by Željko Heimer. This sequel is a kind of summary and review of so far published. The magazine is available on http://www.hrvatski-vojnik.hr/pdfmagazin/hv_494.pdf, and there are also […]