The Swedish State Archives announced that on 15 June 2022, Davor Zovko, a distinguished heraldist and heraldic artist from Mostar, who lives and works in Sweden, will take over the position of state herald. We are proud that he is a member of the HGZD. The state herald (statsheraldiker) is the officer of the State […]
A paper by Željko Heimer was issued in the number 46 of the journal »Kulturna baština« (=City of Split Heritage Journal) for 2020. The »Kulturna baština« journal is published since 1973 by the Split’s Friends of Cultural Heritage Society, providing papers on general history of Split and its surroundings, architecture, urbanism, archaeology, monument protection, art, music, […]
The Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Society (HGZD), established on 4 May 2006, is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2021. In fifteen years, the Society has published 29 volumes of the Grb i zastava journal; it published or co-published three monographs and proceedings; co-organized two scientific conferences; held about a hundred public lectures at the HGZD […]
Croatian national broadcasting company HRT published on its news portal on August 23, 2020 an article about flags that appear in connection with recent events in Belarus, which we transfer here translated https://vijesti.hrt.hr/646215/zasto-bjeloruski-prosvjednici-koriste-bijelo-crveno-bijelu-zastavu-umjesto-sluzbene Why are Belarusian protesters using a white-red-white flag instead of the official one? A frequent sight in the current protests in Belarus […]
Dear members and friends of the HGZD, Zagreb was yesterday hit by the most devastating earthquake in the last 140 years. We hope that you and your families are good and that your homes got out of it with only minor damage. This all happened to us at the time of a pandemic, so please, […]
Assistant Prof. Dr. Tomislav Galović held the lecture »Croatian Heraldists in the 20th Century« in the small classroom of the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre, on 25 April 2019, as part of the cycle »Croatian Symbolic Identity«. The lecture cycle is a joint project of the Trešnjevka Cultural Centre and the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association. The […]
Thrteen years ago on this day the Croatian Heraldic and Vexillological Association (HGZD) was established. I am using this opportunity to express my gratitude to you all for your support and cooperation. In my opinion during the last 13 years we accomplished much though small and modest steps, thus slowly gathering heritage to which we […]
On 12 Junly 2018 our Macedonian friend and a HGZD member from the very beginning, Jovan Jonovski, president of the Macedonian Heraldic Society (MHZ), successfully defended his doctoral dissertation titled “Sun and Lion as Symbols in Heraldry and Vexillology of Macedonia” at the National History Institute of the St. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje […]
The President of the Republic of Croatia Mrs Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović handed over the decorations and awards of the Republic of Croatia in the field of social sciences on 15 November 2017. In the ceremony in the presidential residence the President handed over to Željko Heimer the Order of Croatian Daystar with the Effigy of Marko […]
The father of modern vexillology, Whitney Smith established in 1961, together with Gerhard Grahl, the first vexilological journal The Flag Bulletin, and the next year estanlished the Flag Research Centre (FRC). He was its director until his retirement in 2013 when the entire considerable library and archive was transferred to the University of Texas in […]
 FIAV | Međunarodna federacija veksiloloških udrugaInternational Federation of Vexillological AssociationsLa Fédération Internationale des Associations Vexillologiques | & | Međunarodna genealoška i heraldička konfederacijaInternational Confederation of Genealogy and HeraldryLa Confédération Internationale de Généalogie et d'Héraldique |  CIGH |
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